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Planning to make my own website...

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Hey guys. I've finally decided to make my own website, just to those random small apps i write, how-to guide for windows/OS X problems(mostly for myself so I remember how to fix them) and a blog. I'm planning on using Wordpress for the blog.

I currently have a basic understanding of how HTML/CSS/PHP work from about 5yrs ago, aside from XHTML/CSS changes since then is there really anything else I should be aware of? I was planning to use that site as a way to learn HTML5/CSS3. I know they aren't standardized yet but I'd rather get started now then fall behind again. I haven't written a site since about 2003-4.

Thanks for any input, and if it matter I was planning to use Coda as my editor and w3schools for reference.

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Actually you can use HTML5 /CSS3 now if it`s your website i would encourage you to do that but also you have to know what browsers your audience is using is they are using the latest browsers then HTML5/CSS3 will work if not maybe XHTML/CSS3 is fine the only problem that you will face is supporting IE6 . if you are not aware of those IE6 bugs it won`t be an easy task .

some sites you can find it useful

http://html5doctor.com/

http://www.css3.info/

http://www.positioniseverything.net/

http://reference.sitepoint.com

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There's no problem with using HTML5, since HTML5 is mostly just a standardisation of what the browsers already do (edge cases that weren't previously standardised, like what to do with a comment appearing between the <html> and the <head> element)

Using bits of CSS3 can be a bit more annoying, but at least browsers that don't understand it just don't do anything with it, so you can use it as a form of progressive enhancement (like rounded corners, they look nice but aren't essential to the layout so not having them isn't a deal breaker)

<video> can fall back to a browser plugin with <object>, you can do <canvas> with VML for IE, etc.

Edit: And IE can be taught to understand the new HTML5 elements if you create them at least once via "document.createElement", it's an interesting bug.

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