Here is an extremely cool way of looking at websites – it turns the HTML code tree into a graph, with nodes coloured according to tag type, and then lays them out in an aesthetically-pleasing manner. And, of course, modern clean HTML looks much nicer than old crufty table-based tag soup.
The applet which generates them is also online (requires Java). Put your favourite URLs into it, and post any here which make particularly beautiful pictures.
This one’s pretty funny:
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.this-page-intentionally-left-blank.org/
http://planet.mozilla.org/ actually looks quite interesting. It has a huge amount of elements and the Subscriptions part on the right hand side sprouts out quite nicely!
Rj
I just tried this download and it says “509 Bandwidth Limit Exceeded”. Bummer. I wanted to test out my website.
Say, this is surprisingly useful. I ran my employer’s main website (which I currently maintain), and it became immediately obvious which portion of the design could stand some simplification, if I should happen to get into a refactoring mood. Nifty.