Tony Thomas

I did a soft launch of my new WordPress theme last week. There are a few things I’d like to point out. First is the decision to go to HTML5. HTML5 (combined with the HTML5 Shiv) actually made writing the styles quite a bit simpler. It’s a bit of adjustment after writing XHTML for so long, but when it came time to write the styles the new tags meant fewer ids and classes. I found that very handy.

Also I’m using less JavaScript than I was before. Instead the hover effects are accomplished using CSS3 transitions. (more…)

Since I’ve started working with HTML5  a bit, I’ve had to adjust my thinking about page structure. HTML 5 page structure differs from HTML 4 or XHTML significantly. (X)HTML document structure should look like this: (more…)