Oh god, absolutely. It appears that nobody writes straight HTML any more, and yet it’s so freaking easy. Skinning a semantically well formed html5 document with

Oh god, absolutely. It appears that nobody writes straight HTML any more, and yet it’s so freaking easy. Skinning a semantically well formed html5 document with CSS is actually pretty darned easy. I tried rewriting an absolutely dreadfully written, bastardized version of a bootstrap based static website from scratch. After writing the raw html5 pages, I included a bunch of small CSS files and emulated a CSS Zen Garden methodology. It was all done in a few hours and included some more advanced options like a background video with opacity as the hero image on the front page… and the site went from megabytes (!!!) to just under 200kb (including hero video). It ran incredibly fast, and super responsive. It was easy to read and debug.