Brugbart was redesigned
Brugbart has been redesigned to make more room for content, and to improve performance and compatibility.
Its been about 3 years since the English site (brugbart.com) was created, and we have pretty much used the same layout, with smaller adjustments and modifications ever since.
Today that ended, with the release of a new layout, which we have had in the works secretly for some time. This is one reason why updates on Brugbart has been far between doing the past few months. But BlueBoden, who is the main contributer has also been busy with real life.
Based on latest HTML standard
The new layout is build according to the latest HTML standard, with no thought about how it will effect SEO, so it will be interesting to see if the pagedividual positions will drop or increase, or perhaps just stay the same.
The SEO aspect
I (BlueBoden) know a lot of you are worried about how the new sectioning system will effect SEO. I can tell you that it doesn't effect your sites negatively, Brugbart has been using a mix of the traditional h2-h6 as subsections, combined with section tags. We mainly used the traditional tags as fall backs, but we have now made the shift to strictly using h1s with sections, so if you are interested in how this will effect a sites position, then you should pay attention to our news update doing the next weeks/months.
One thing for sure, using the new elements of HTML, won't effect you negatively, and if you are really worried, then you may feel confident that using h2-h6, combined with sections, wont do any harm. And that may be just what you are looking for, if you want to sharpen your HTML skills, and prepare your sites/apps to use new HTML elements/semantics.
The integration
I've personally found that it was very difficult to work with the new sectioning system in PHP, even when using DOM. I actually resorted to using DOM, because i felt totally blinded, and unable to see how to deal with this using regular expressions.
The thing is, that i want to implement a contents-list, and for that i need to know the level of the section. I now have a working function, using php simple html dom parser, but the funny thing is, that i don't have a clear understanding of the code, despite spending two days coding it myself. Thats how hard it is for me!
I will release the script soon, hopefully some helpful visitors will help improve it. The content-list is yet to be implemented, since I'm yet to decide where to place it.