Slight thread creep...

I've taken over as webmaster of a website... my two predecessors both used Micro$haft web design programmes... the first was FrontPage, and the second was Expression Web... the reason for the change of programmes was simply that Frontpage was no longer available.

Anyway, the nett result is web pages riddled with redundant code, and the CSS stylesheets embedded in every page instead of being a separate file with a pointer to tell all the pages (around seventy of them) where to find it.

Redundant code? Things like paragraph tags and font tags with no text, all the stuff that's hidden from view and isn't deleted when the text it related to has been deleted. Fortunately I'm used to working in raw HTML...

It's taken me a while, using a text editor, to plod through and clean up the pages, but when you consider the home page has gone from around 164k down to 89k, the effort has been worthwhile.

Needless to say, I won't be using a Micro$haft programme to maintain the site in the future!