Before we start it is imperative to point out that this redesign is still very much a work in progress and over the coming weeks and months we will be looking to progress it further with the introduction of; fluidity, responsiveness through media queries, the introduction of new features and tweaking/removing certain aspects once we have analysed how you are using it.

The clinic is packed this week with your HTML5 ailments! Today, we’ll discuss an HTML5 syntax dilemma, using sections within sections, link semantics, describing the contents of a figure, and marking up web app toolbars.

For the last couple of years, it’s been fashionable to have “fat footers” in websites. Take, for example, Jeffrey Zeldman’s footer…

The clinic is getting busy with more HTML5 ailments! This week, we’ll cover the separation of formatting and content, custom elements, using aside for social links, sections with no visible titles, and canvas in the DOM.

Recently Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML5 specification, announced that HTML is the new HTML5, meaning that the WHATWG will drop the numeral “5” and just call their spec “HTML”. Giant brains John Foliot and Bruce Lawson engage in an intellectual clash of the titans over whether or not you should care.

HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications by Matthew David (Focal Press). I’ll be honest and up front, this is a pretty negative review. I’ve been sitting on it for months, but decided to post it as people have asked our opinion of this book.

We Doctors like the proposed HTML5 logo from the W3C; it’s down there, glistening in our footer. But we think that the definition of HTML5 that the W3C offers is too broad to be useful.

By now, you've surely realised that 'HTML5' is so much more than just markup. There's also an army of associated JavaScript APIs. Among the ranks are a few new technologies that open up how we communicate between client and server and across documents. Let's take a look.

The clinic is busy as ever with more HTML5 ills. This week, we’ll cover marking up Wikipedia infoboxes, anchors in <hgroup>, <figure> for avatars, header(s), and how to use <code> and <pre>.

Through our handy Ask The Doctor service, we get a lot of e-mails asking us about HTML5’s effect on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). While we can’t answer in great detail (Messrs Google, Yahoo, Bing, and their friends haven’t sent us in-depth details of their algorithms), we’ve rounded up some useful facts from Google, the world’s most dominant search engine.