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designofhomes | 12 years ago | on: Why I’d rather write in Medium than my personal blog

What surprised me most about the speed stats in your image is the file size of the pages. The medium.com page is half a megabyte! And yet it's a plain text page. What's causing the bloat? Are fonts being downloading? Even if they are, it's still feels excessive.

designofhomes | 12 years ago | on: The ﹤main﹥ element

That's great to hear. Thanks :-)

designofhomes | 12 years ago | on: The ﹤main﹥ element

"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/