| Tip 1 | Redefining a Blog Using Semantic Markup |
Semantic markup is all about describing content. If you’ve been developing web pages for a few years, you’ve probably divided your pages into various regions such as header, footer, and sidebar so that you can more easily identify the regions of the page when applying style sheets and other formatting.
Semantic markup makes it easy for machines and people to understand the meaning and context of the content. The new HTML5 markup tags, such as <section>, <header>, and <nav>, help you do that, as well.
One place you’re sure to find lots of content in need of structured markup is a blog. You’re going to have headers, footers, multiple types of navigation (archives, blogrolls, and internal links), and, ...
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