Creating better semantic markup with HTML5

As the web evolves, so does the code that runs behind the scenes.…The core code language we use to develop pages on the web has evolved and it's…now in its fifth iteration, thus the name HTML5.…With HTML5, we've gotten a series of new tags that are more semantic or…meaningful that can hook into current and future functionality in web browsers.…Adopting HTML5 semantic markup also makes your site code easier to understand.…In the example project for this course, I've marked everything up in HTML5.…

That has a couple of caveats;…it means that this code will not run properly in older browsers.…It also means that some of the code in this page may not work the way it's…supposed to in old browsers.…That's not because there's anything wrong with the code or the browsers. It's…because HTML 5 is still in a Draft format.…Now this is not a course about HTML5, but I want to show you what I have done…in this page, so you get an idea of what this markup is all about and why HTML5 is so important.…If we look at the page itself, you will notice that at the top it just…