Got an email from Best Buy today notifying me of their new online store designed specifically for their business customers. While the design is nice enough to look at and I do enjoy not having to make my way through all of the glossy movie and games promos, the markup is most definitely Web 1.0. There is no DOCTYPE specified, the page (markup/XHTML only) weighs in at a hefty 14kb. Worst of all? A spacer.gif!

There is just no excuse for using old, crusty table-based layout for that design. It could easily be implemented, probably in a single afternoon of work by Travis, and provide faster loading times and better accessibility to boot.

Shame on Best Buy!