Over the past few months I have been casually working on a new design for the site. Just when I was thinking I had something that was pretty good I got two books in the mail, HTML5 Up and Running and Handcrafted CSS and everything looked a lot different.

First both of these books are very good, and really open your eyes to what HTML5 and CSS3 are all about. They also make any of your older designed code look a little meek in comparison. For me HTML5 was more exciting just because I had not read much about it at all and was quite surprised by some of the cool new technologies in there.

The new semantic tags are very cool like article, header, and footer really make a huge difference in the look of your markup and improve it immensely.

Needless to say I am looking into redoing the design using some of the HTML5 and CSS3 tags and so far it’s pretty exciting.