[designofhomes]

"Has anyone used all of the HTML5 tags in anger? I've tried a couple of times to build something fully "semantic". I struggle to create something that looks good semantically"

I recently ditched Wordpress and decided to learn HTML and CSS by hand-coding my blog. I used many (but not all) of the new HTML 5 tags including main, section, article, nav, footer. Admittedly a blog is quite a structured type of site that lends itself well to simple semantic markup. I am using html5shiv.js to support IE 6-9 and the site renders mostly fine in those browsers. There are some isues with spacing, but the site is perfectly readable which is the main thing.

Here's my site: http://www.designofhomes.co.uk (a blog about housing issues in the UK). Admittedly, it's not the most attractive design, but a reasonably clean and clear layout (I hope!) Any feedback on the appearance and structure is very welcome :-)

Here's what the site looks like in Internet Explorer and Lynx using browsershots.org for testing (this link expires in a day or two)

http://browsershots.org/http://www.designofhomes.co.uk/

[jwdunne]

If clean and clear is what you're going for, I personally think you've done a good job!

[designofhomes]

That's great to hear. Thanks :-)