About This Website

This website was built using XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), instead of the older, more widely-used HTML. All its pages have been verified by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) as valid code, earning this label:

In plain English, this means that this website is written using a more modern code than many websites... therefore it may look wrong in some browsers, like old versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape. If you are seeing plain font on a white background, with everything aligned to the left, it means your browser does not support CSS at all, or perhaps has been customized not to use it. If that is the case, then this site may be plain style-wise, but still easy to use. However, if things look awkward, out of place, seem missing, or outright messy, then your browser is using CSS, but improperly. (Naughty browser! Naughty!)

While a few hacks were employed to make this site work in the most widely-used "naughty browsers", there are a lot of browsers out there; it's impossible to design for all of them.

Despite these troubles, there are several good reasons for using valid XHTML and CSS to build websites. Here are just a few of them:

What's "modern" today, will be standard tomorrow; many of the major corporate sites are already switching to CSS and XHTML.
It is valid (official) according to the W3C, which means in the future, all the browsers should render it properly (wrathful pressure is on browser developers by web designers to follow standards; designers are tired of having to employ all kinds of tricks and hacks to make their websites work in all the different popular browsers).
It makes the site load a little faster, because cleanly-coded CSS and XHTML is clean and concise, like a well-written story. It gives computers the info they need in as little "words" as possible.
It is easier for the web designer, because there is a lot less code to write and maintain.
The commands that give style to a webpage can be separate from the content of the webpage, which is how this site is built. The great thing about this is that the web designer doesn't have to worry about style while altering the content, and vice versa. On this site, a single CSS file controls the look of all its pages (except for the doll pages, which have CSS embedded in them to overwrite parts of that main file). If a different background were to be chosen for this site, only one change would have to be made, instead of tweaking each and every page. Pretty cool, huh?

All and all, if you aren't seeing this site properly, along with many other websites, you are encouraged to get a better browser.

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