Feelin’ like it’s 1999

This is killing me…

A lot of the bank sites I work on are older designs. As such, they use older practices. While there’s a sprinkling of CSS and Javascript throughout these sites (and some have more than just a sprinkling), they’re all table-based layouts. When I have to update the pages, which I do constantly, I have to weed through a plethora of <tr> and <td> tags trying to find what I’m looking for. It’s usually not difficult, but all those tables within tables, combined with inline CSS and Javascript just makes me itch.

Unfortunately, my boss doesn’t have any real concerns about adhering to web standards, and I’m not sure how to make her understand the importance of keeping the content (HTML) separate from the presentation (CSS) and separate from the behavior (Javascript). While there are pages that have links to external CSS and JS files, for every one, there are a hundred more that have all three elements combined together.

I’m going to have to figure out a plan of attack and make her see the importance of Web Standards and separation of content vs. behavior and presentation. If only for my own sanity.