I’ve put up a long over-due redesign. I like the simpler look. The most interesting thing is that it’s coded with HTML5 based on the free WordPress theme.

HTML5 is the next version of the hypertext markup language (HTML). HTML5 brings a lot of useful changes to website coding, including more meaningful markup. For instance a website header would be denoted as a “Header,” which would be easier for both humans and machines to understand and make changing formats (say pulling the information off a website and compiling it in a database) easier.

Another interesting part of this design is that it mostly uses advanced CSS selectors. There are 3 classes and 3 ids in the whole site. It makes and interesting change and may make updating much easier.

This site works in all modern browsers, unfortunately IE6 isn’t one of them (mostly because of the CSS). I know a lot of libraries were stuck with using IE6 because of their IT departments a couple of years ago. Hopefully they’ve been able to move on since then but if yours hasn’t this is what it’s supposed to look like.