How do I reduce  elements?
I use Semantic Views to remove a lot of the cruft from views.


  This Views plugin makes unformatted styles, field row styles and other
  output more readily configurable without needing to override template
  files. Instead of overriding row style templates for views where you
  want to specify different HTML elements (tags) and class attributes,
  you can specify these inside the Views UI and avoid overriding
  templates for each view.