Semantic HTML

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I remember when I first “viewed the source” in my Netscape browser for a website. I totally fell in love with the blink tag! But then, I realized that MicroSoft had its own proprietary markup, and specifically, the “marquee” tag – and that was it! I became the 90′s version of a code monkey gone wild. Well, web design has come along way since the 1990′s, and so has my coding abilities. I am now all about semantically correct, (X)HTML valid markup. And in fact, many designers now are listening to our Standards-based community as we evangelize web standards in a world filled with web site markup ridden with table-based layouts, and font tag usage. I have even seen that blink tag used earlier this week during my internet travels. I didn’t have the stomach to view the source on a site that (oh no!) was using what seemed to be that old marquee tag!

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Fast forwarding back to the present, I wanted to open up a discussion here on one of the hottest topics today – designing a blog. One that will be very eye-candy appealing as well as structurally semantic and valid. As we know, WordPress has so many themes available from its community of coders. I personally use theme templates that I find for many of my WordPress blogs that are available – but only those who’s (X)HTML markup will validate and is semantically correct. And that only from trusted (read: authoritative) web sites. And with the great WordPress theme authors working today, I have actually found that the majority of (X)HTML markup used is very semantic and valid per the W3C specs. The only issue I have found (and can live with) is certain plugins are not valid, and will cause an entire page to fail automatic testing.

So if you are interested in blog and design semantics, please get your comment groove on, and begin to comment here. Let’s get this discussion going!

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