amiya

I agree, we’re still a lot better off now than we were before.

Root:
I’d read the “Dive into Accessibility” series when it came out. I’m not convinced about the skipping over argument. It’s only an issue when a blogroll with a hundred links is clubbed with the navigation. A short, concise hnav before the posts is worth considering.

macmanx:
I’d “started editing” before I made this post.

Kiddeath:
Try visiting any other wordpress blog and you’ll see wtf I mean.

vkaryl:
Wouldn’t that give comment spam URL’s higher relevance than their precious blogroll… j/k ??

podz:
Don’t equate navigation and technorati/del/blogroll links. They should come at the end. I’m talking about the regular navigation such as archives, categories & meta.
It’s the same as putting the table of contents comes before the actual chapters of a book.

ifelse:
I know, and I feel the default index.php can be improved.

Root:
Please take a look at:
https://www.mezzoblue.com/
https://www.maxdesign.com.au/about.cfm
https://www.meyerweb.com/
https://www.zeldman.com/
https://www.stylegala.com/
https://cssvault.com/
https://www.scriptygoddess.com/
I agree they’re not all classical blogs and they don’t represent the entire universe of web devs, but all these sites do put the navigation before the content.
A theme I just worked on is partially better, and my next one will be even better in semantic terms.

I had the exact same problem with the exact same nightly. Thanks, 2fargon!