w3school's new layout

[Nile]

http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

Looks pretty good, dont'chya say?

I would say the colors below the top menu and the image that says:

"THE LARGEST WEB DEVELOPER SITE ON THE NET
FULL WEB BUILDING TUTORIALS
- ALL FREE"
Don't blend, but otherwise pretty nice, your thoughts?

[Snookerman]

I'm gonna beat Twey to it and say "pseudo-XHTML transitional, yuck!"

Regarding the design, I don't really think it looks very professional, the header looks like it was made in the 90's and does not match at all with the rest of the page. Also, I just noticed, they're using tables for the layout!! Boo, w3schools!!!

[Nile]

What's wrong with pseudo-XHTML transitional? Is all XHTML yuck, or is XHTML Strict not?

[Snookerman]

XHTML is fine, it's pseudo-XHTML (http://www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml) that's stoopid.

[Nile]

Ah, I see. ;) Anyways, I think the header could have some improvement, but I really like it. Maybe different colors.

[Twey]

And pseudo-XHTML Transitional is even more stoopid — stooopid, one might even say.

It takes a particular brand of genius to try (and fail) to use XHTML — presumably because it's 'new and shiny' or because it's perceived as being stricter than HTML — and then choose the deliberately lax, backwards-compatibility DTD that stopped being useful when people decided to move away from HTML3 ten years ago.

The page is fixed-width, which is terrible design practice. Additionally, I've always thought the design is entirely too cluttered. It's not possible to tell, at a glance, what's an advert and what's actual content.

Said content is, incidentally, still utterly pants.

[Snookerman]

Try scrolling down until you don't see the grey header anymore, just the blue logo and the rest of the page. Big difference! They should have it like that and put the navigation somewhere in the logo, and also get some of that blue color in the rest of the page. If I would compare this to the new White House site, it loses by miles, and they're supposed to be the gurus..