Reply To: Some feed back on my mark-up.

[Robby]

I’m gonna disagree with shane. I always put id’s on my root level elements and only use classes if its something I know will be repeated across the page (stuff like widths/padding/colors/etc). I try to write my css in a way where i could take out any element on the page and plug it in somewhere else. For instance on your <header> element I’d dump all the classes and just place an ID on the main tag.

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Everyone has their own convention and it really doesn’t matter though.

I’d just use strong and a instead of <spans> everywhere.

I’m not into the new html5 h1’s everywhere. I really don’t think your page above needs sections for every paragraph, they all seem related and under “Hi I’m Carlton”. I’d remove all the <sections> and make the headings h2’s.

Your unordered list at the bottom is backwards. The immediate children of the ul should be li’s. You should swap yours a’s and li’s