Adding opening div tag in header.php with no closing.

Yes, one bigger reason to do it this way, is the DRY principle. Don't-Repeat-Yourself. The problem if you put the <div id="content"> into each page template, is what happens if you forget to add that div to each file, or even more common, 6 months down the road you want to add a class, or an attribute to your content div. Will if you did it the way taught here, you only have to modify this in one place. If you put it into every single file, you have to copy and paste it to each file. What it your site has 80 template files. Yuck.

Also, if you watch closely, she's not closing the div in contact.php or suggest.php. She's closing the div in the footer, so as long as you include your header and footer files, you know for certain that div is going to be opened and closed, and the content of the files will be neatly wrapped in the content div.

In regards to wordpress making you create a div and delete half of it. Not the end of the world, but even more reason to do it this way. You only have to go through that once, not once for each file you create...again, yuck.

Hope that makes sense, but the way that is shown in the video is a better practice to follow.

Hi Austin, The closing tag for <div id="content"> was placed into the inc/footer.php file, so now you don't have to remember to add the closing div tag to each file.