Structure of website columns and navigation

I have made this HTML5 structure for a new website I am working on. I'd like to know if there is a more elegant approach to doing it.

• Is the wrapper for the two column considered bad practice?

• Should the secondary navigation on the left be an article or a div?

    
        header
    
    
          
        
            
                
                    H1 title
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                    - main navigation
                    - main navigation
                    - main navigation
                
            

            
                button call to action
            

            
                Title h2 secondary menu
                
                    navigation
                    navigation
                    navigation
                
            

            
                Title h2 secondary menu
                
                    navigation
                    navigation
                    navigation
                
            
        

          
        

            
                slideshow widget
               

            
                review widget
               

            
                product grid title
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                        product 1
                        product 2
                        product 3
                    
                
            
                product grid title
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                        product 1
                        product 2
                        product 3
                    
                
            
        
    

    /div>

    
    
        footer
    

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Don't worry about wrapping your content too much if the style cannot be achieved without it. If it can, the extra wrap may be overkill.

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Your markup relies a lot on the ` where it may not be necessary. For instance, you put one tag into another, which is odd. You also put and tag into the , which is also odd.

If you want simple containers, I would recommend you stick with s with semantic class` attributes. They have been around for a while and used for wrapping other tags. They are the tried and true method and their lack of semantic meaning will not confuse the reader or crawler.

StackExchange Code Review Q#21166, answer score: 2