Well, lately I’ve been getting tired of my current website layout. Although I have a lot of projects in hand to do, there is always time I can put aside to gain hands-on experience with the new HTML 5. Because it will be the next solid version of markup language used by the most updated web browsers, I think it will be a great investment for me to put some time in reading up some articles and practicing HTML 5 on small miscellaneous projects and what’s a better way to do it than redesigning my website and coding it out HTML 5.

I don’t want to say that I am bored or don’t trust XHTML 1.1, which I have been coding under for quite some time now, but from what I’ve read so far in web design and development blogs, e-zines, and forums, is that HTML 5 will become the major language that all web designers and developers need to know. But before I can really make the leap to HTML 5, there are still those legacy browser issues such as compatibility. I know for a fact that coding in HTML 5 will display correctly in most updated browsers but it won’t play nice with the older browsers that doesn’t support the new language. There’s several solutions to this I found while digging the web and some of which are javascript and CSS libraries that handles it all for you automatically. I’m sure there is a better way to work around this situation as I personally don’t see including and referencing a JS and CSS library every time coding a new website to be efficient.