The logo on the home page is in a div, but there is a header/hgroup combo containing the same information that is hidden using text-indent. It would be better to combine the two using image replacement or alt attributes to maintain the document outline. small could also have been used in the footer, and the type attributes in script and stylesheet link elements are unnecessary.

URL: http://www.hechtmediaarts.de/

The main content area of the home page is wrapped in a section element, but this is really a job for div. The articles on the home page could use a footer each to replace the div class="meta", as it contains information about the article.

URL: http://snapsize.com/

hgroup could have been used to wrap the main site heading and logo to prevent the current situation where “Collective Idea Logo” is a subsection of “Collective Idea” in the document outline. section is used to wrap the introductory text, but as it has no heading it would be fine to use a div and leave the content as part of the top level of the document. article would also work well for the blog post excerpts.

URL: http://collectiveidea.com/

The title of the home page in the document outline is “Some Of Our Recent Work” because that is the highest level heading outside sectioning content. An easy fix is to wrap the logo in an h1 and the document title will then take the value of the logo alt attribute. “Some Of Our Recent Work” could then either be changed to an h2, or more preferably dropped into a section.

URL: http://www.pixelbender.ca/

It’s good to see input type="search" used with a placeholder in the site search form. The main content area of the homepage would work well as sections with heading tags used in place of strong nested in p for each title. The menu element is used for the top navigation, but nav would be a better choice as menu is interactive content and is used in web apps (although nav is used for the same group of links at the bottom of the page).

URL: http://www.exlab.net/

The site has quite a few untitled articles and sections, and in one or two places heading tags are used for presentational purposes rather than to indicate a level of hierarchy in the document structure. section and article are used to wrap content and as hooks for CSS positioning, but div should have been used instead for this.

URL: http://azzcatdesign.com/

When viewing the document outline the homepage has no title. This could be fixed easily by dropping the logo into an h1, and the value of the alt attribute would become the document heading. The new input type="email" could also have been used in the contact form.

URL: http://sitelysolutions.com/

This site makes good use of section, article and hgroup to produce a well structured document, and also correctly uses small in the footer to wrap the copyright notice. The type attributes could have been left out of the script and stylesheet link elements though.

URL: http://seo.strength.jp/

figure and figcaption are used to mark up the main navigation on the site. As they are not referred to from the main content this is not the best way to create the navigation. There is also an untitled section wrapping the slideshow and nav. Nested asides are used in some sections which is a nice touch.

URL: http://www.alsacreations.fr/

The site makes use of one or two new HTML5 elements, but misses a lot of opportunities to use more. For example the ‘Latest Work’ and ‘What We Believe’ portions of the homepage could be sections. In the blog each post is contained in a div, and the entire list of posts is wrapped in an article. Wrapping articles in a div would be the way to go here.

URL: http://www.superfluentdesign.com/