Post-Google Redesign
August 12, 2009
I just redesigned the site in order to do a few things:
Just looking at the site, you’ll wonder where all the HTML 5 is. All of it is under the hood. I’m taking advantage of the <header>, <nav>, <article>, and <footer> tags to improve the mark up on my site. In fact, by setting their display style to ‘block’ all of the elements render as expected, even in browsers that don’t officially support HTML 5.
As far as the CSS 3 usage goes, it’s just to improve the look of the site. The site is still viewable in older browsers or IE8, but will lack the shadows and rounded corners defined by the CSS 3 syntax. I think this is a good way to start phasing in CSS 3 on the web.
I have a few things that I want to post (including post-Google thoughts), and I’ll hopefully get to them this week.