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Author: Elizabeth Castro
ISBN : 0321719611
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Want to learn how to build Web sites fast? This best-selling guide’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML5 and CSS3 in no time. This Seventh Edition is a major revision, with approximately 125 pages added and substantial updates to (or complete rewrites of) nearly every page from the preceding edition. Authors Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop use clear instructions, friendly prose, and real-world code samples to teach you HTML and CSS from the ground up. Over the course of 21 chapters you will learn how to:
- Write semantic HTML, both with elements that have been around for years and ones that are new in HTML5.
- Prepare images for the Web and add them to your pages.
- Use CSS to style text, add background colors and images, and implement a multicolumn layout.
- Build a single site for all users—whether they are using a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, desktop computer, or other Web-enabled device—based on many of the components of responsive Web design, including CSS3 media queries.
- Leverage new selectors in CSS3, add Web fonts to your pages with @font-face, and use CSS3 effects such as opacity, background alpha transparency, gradients, rounded corners, drop shadows, shadows inside elements, text shadows, and multiple background images.
- Improve your site’s accessibility with ARIA landmark roles and other good coding practices.
- Build forms to solicit input from your visitors.
- Include media in your pages with the HTML5 audio and video elements.
- Test and debug your Web pages.
- Secure a domain name and publish your site.
And much more! All book code samples and more are available on the companion web site.
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- Series: Visual QuickStart Guide
- Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 7 edition (December 31, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321719611
- ISBN-13: 978-0321719614
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 6.8 x 8.8 inches
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Free HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide
I've been working in web development (first as a hobby, then as part of my career) for the past 14 years. I purchased this book to add to my collection of books I turn to for reference. So, here are my thoughts:
OVERALL:
It's a decent book for learning a little bit about HTML5 and CSS3. I say decent meaning it's not great but it's not terrible. If you're absolutely brand new to web development, there's plenty enough in there to give you a "quickstart", but not near enough information for you to perfect the languages. However, if you're experienced in development, this book will practically bore you to tears with the absolute basics of HTML and CSS markup. By the time you actually get to HTML5 and CSS3, you realize there's not a whole lot of depth about either iteration of the language in there, and you're ready to take a nap!
WHAT THIS BOOK IS:
It's a learning manual. My understanding is that this series of books is used by some colleges and tech schools as course textbooks, and it shoes. There is a lot of markup (programming code) in the book, with screenshots showing what it looks like in the web browser. It doesn't go into a lot of detail about either HTML5 or CSS3 - it scratches the surface of both and leaves you wanting to learn more. One plus about the book is that it briefly covers development for mobile devices, though there are better books out there for that, such as HTML5 Mobile Websites: Turbocharging HTML5 with jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, and Other Frameworks. If you're new to web development and want to learn more, this is a good book for you.
WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT:
It's not a reference manual.
HTML5 and CSS3 by Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop was one of the best books I have read for learning beginner to intermediate Web design.
Having read several books on HTML and CSS, and having read considerably more on PHP and Javascript, this book was delightfully accessible for getting up to speed on both the basics of Web design and the intricacies of the new HTML5 and CSS3 features.
First, the book is beautifully formatted---a friendly read--with lots of colorful and relevant images and high gloss paper. The content of the book was equally appealing, especially through the provision of many relevant links to components such as the HTML5 Shiv, HTML5 and CSS3 validators, Flash player--and numerous articles about specifications, Web browser compatibility, and so forth.
Of considerable value, I often found the book presenting a concept that needed further explanation, only to turn the page, to find the explanation clearly outlined in subsequent pages. I particularly loved the lead-ins and overall clarity of the book.
Of biggest appeal, perhaps, was not only the inclusion of CSS3 and HTML5 for building some visually impressive forms, but also the provision of very easy guidelines to follow for including native videos and audios (complete with Flash fallback and hyperlinks for older browsers) on the Website. The process couldn't be spelled out more clearly. Additionally, the section on mobile media provided a relevant introduction into designing for iPhone and the like. The CSS enhancements, such as rounded corners, drop shadows, gradient, and multiple backgrounds, also were informative, often including links to online tools that make the process simple by automatically generating the code for various vendors.
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