Html5

[penguin32]

Hi all

I have a small website, written myself, for a buisiness I run.
I need to make another site for my girlfriends buisiness.
Both are really simple sites, mainly just for web pesence purposes.

The question is should I now be using HTML5, which looks easier to use but is it backward compatible with enough browsers?

My current site is an artist/painting website the new one is for photography. Both are really just some text and thunbnails opening larger pictures.
I wrote my site with kompozer and Notepad2 a few years ago and managed ok with HTML4 and CSS, I dont want to spend a great amount of time on it but do have a computer background.

thanks

Penguin

 

[mrjminer]

Hi all

I have a small website, written myself, for a buisiness I run.
I need to make another site for my girlfriends buisiness.
Both are really simple sites, mainly just for web pesence purposes.

The question is should I now be using HTML5, which looks easier to use but is it backward compatible with enough browsers?

My current site is an artist/painting website the new one is for photography. Both are really just some text and thunbnails opening larger pictures.
I wrote my site with kompozer and Notepad2 a few years ago and managed ok with HTML4 and CSS, I dont want to spend a great amount of time on it but do have a computer background.

thanks

Penguin

This should be in programming forum, but yes. HTML 5 is what you want to be using.

 

[cubby1223]

If you just need to a website to have a website, go with whatever you know. If it works, then it works. When I first started with websites, the work was 95% html and a sprinkling of css & javascript. Now websites are 95% css & javascript with a sprinkling of html tossed in.

Also, most people these days begin with pre-built templates and fill in the content. Considering websites today need to format well not just for desktop computers, but tablets and cell phones too, the learning curve to work with a template often is less than the learning curve of figuring it all out on your own and making it look good.

 

[penguin32]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I picked up a pile of javascript books from the libary a few days ago and i'm still wondering if that is the direction I should be going in really. I takes me a while to edit the site so I was wondering if taking the time to learn some Html5 and javascript would payback in the long run?

Am I right in thinking there are a significant number of people using browsers that will not handle htlm5?

Could someone move this thread to the programming forum as I seem to have put it in the wrong place

many thanks
Penguin

 

[mrjminer]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I picked up a pile of javascript books from the libary a few days ago and i'm still wondering if that is the direction I should be going in really. I takes me a while to edit the site so I was wondering if taking the time to learn some Html5 and javascript would payback in the long run?

Am I right in thinking there are a significant number of people using browsers that will not handle htlm5?

Could someone move this thread to the programming forum as I seem to have put it in the wrong place

many thanks
Penguin

Any modern browser will handle html 5

 

[cubby1223]

It's safe to assume no one important is using IE8 or prior.