So, since I mentioned it yesterday, I might as well talk a little bit about it. I am not going to go into my super long speech or anything, just some basics, and what some others say.
Semantic HTML – What is it? Basically – HTML is for describing the structure and meaning of content – not for describing presentation.
As much as possible, the tags surrounding the content of a document should describe what that content is and/or what it’s for. – Jason Kottke
Semantic HTML is just regular HTML, “semantics” is just a fancy word for “meaning”. Its just using the given elements the way they were meant to be used.
Here is a pretty cool presentation that gives some examples: Joseph Lindsay – Semantic HTML, and its from May 2005.
I used to start every site with just the HTML first. NO image, NO CSS. I have gotten out of that habit, but really need to get back to it. It makes building site so much easier.