Meryl's Notes Blog

Eric Meyer interviews Douglas Bowman of Wired News, one of the Web’s oldest news Web site that has launched a redesigned Web site using validated XHTML and CSS for its layout.

Get the details on the whys, the 13 style sheets, advantages, disadavantages, and lessons learned. [Link Webreference]

Update: Zeldman talks about this redesign and gives kudos to Wired News for complying with W3C recommendations by using XHTML with CSS. However, one thing keeps Wired from being compliant — third party content (read ads). The Wired team can’t control the external content and they certainly don’t want to threaten its advertisers to become compliant and lose their funding.