Last year Ian Stewart at ThemeShaper wrote a series of articles on the subject of coding a WordPress theme from scratch. This theme is a very well crafted blank WordPress theme that you can re-use on your projects.
It has several widget areas, it’s SEO optimzed, and supports translation among other things. Take a look at the code, it’s one of the best blank themes out there in my opinion. I’m not talking about frameworks such as ThemeHybrid or Thematic which take a different approach (they use child themes).

So, in the process of redesigning my web design portfolio website , I converted the “Shaper” theme to use HTML 5 markup. Where it makes sense, I use the new HTML 5 tags such as header, section, article. I didn’t use hgroup for the logo/tagline pair, because the way the theme works is the tagline is a H1 on the homepage and a div on the other pages for SEO reasons.
The comments use the article tag, as recommended.
Please download the theme, and let me know what you think.

Features : custom page template with dynamic post table. The table is then enhanced with Jquery dataTables to add search and sort functionality.
The goal was twofold : to present data in a searchable format for visitors. To make it easy to update for the website admin with no html knowledge.
Using custom fields, the client can enter a new post in a specific category, and it will appear in the table.
Here is the code for the custom page template:

	<div id="table-wrapper">
	<?php query_posts('cat=3'); ?>
	<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="display" id="food" style="width:580px"
	    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>Location</th>
            <th>Dish</th>
            <th>Type</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
	    <tbody>
        <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<?php
		$food_location = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'food-location', true );
		$food_name = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'food-name', true );
		$food_type = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'food-type', true );

 echo '<tr>';
 if ( !empty( $food_location ) ) {
		echo '<td class="rightcol">' . $food_location . '</td>';

		/* Add any additional code. */
	}
 if ( !empty( $food_name ) ) {
		echo '<td class="rightcol">' . $food_name . '</td>';

		/* Add any additional code. */
	}
	 if ( !empty( $food_type ) ) {
		echo '<td class="rightcol">' . $food_type . '</td>';

		/* Add any additional code. */
	}
 echo '</tr>';
?>

You can see the demo at:
http://kingrichardsfaire.net/food-drinks/