A consequence of having had a website for a number of years, and of having a short attention span, is that I have dozens of old files that I don't recognize sitting in various places on my web server. Even though this site isn't all that complex, there are still several dynamic elements like the random quote and image generators. Also, since I use Movable Type to manage much of the content now, I have multiple versions of many of the page templates. I have found that I just don't have enough time to sit down and sort through the mess that my website has become.
I did manage to purge some old image files, and rework most of the pages to use the photos in my photo gallery. This has saved me around 20 mb of space.
While going through this housecleaning, I got the bright idea to run my site through a validation exercise to see how big a mess my html and css really is.
Yow.
Wish I hadn't done that. Now I have way more work than I had before. Based on the validator's output, I'm amazed my site is even viewable... Guess I'll start fixing things, one page at a time, until it's cleaned up. This will probably take months, which will leave me way behind in everything else, I'm sure.
Posted by jbuie at June 27, 2005 11:04 AM