If someone follows the URL to your web site and don't see a typical blog there, it looks ridiculous, preposterous, even tasteless. Of course what people think has never cause me to do something different from what I had in mind in first place. But it has made me think of the real cause I've changed the content, layout and the look and feel of radoslavpopov.com so many times in the last several years.

Through the years I've used this place to improve my skills as a web developer. This was the place I've first learned how to use tables to structure my content... and later to use divs for everything I could mark up... and later to use semantic mark-up, and how to separate content, styling and behavior... and what is unobtrusive JavaScript... and so on.

If we met each other in the last two years it has a good chance that you know my daily work is not related to Front-end development any longer. And I missed some epic events in the scope. The release of IE8. God help me if I need to build even the easiest layout and something goes wrong. The emerging css3 and it's support in most modern browsers. All the buzz around html5. The next big thing - fonts in modern web design.

One sunny day I got sick, stayed at home and decided that this tendency needs to be broken. I cannot afford to waste years in gained knowledge because of laziness and to become the typical server-side developer, one I used to hate so much in the near past. Besides that, I love Front-end technologies, it's just that... well... I've forgotten about this love lately.

So, this is the result - a brand new version of my web site (I called it v5 in accordance to the html5, although it should be near 10 if I'd counted correctly). It will continue to serve as a place to gain knowledge about one of the fields I love the most.

Btw, don't be too disappointed if you've opened the source only to see the old looong boring doctype. There is a reason I'm not moving too fast to the html5, but this is a topic for a future post.