HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide, 7th Edition

by WOW! eBook · July 6, 2012

eBook Details:

Paperback: 576 pages
Publisher: WOW! eBook; 7th edition (December 31, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321719611
ISBN-13: 978-0321719614

eBook Description:

HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide, 7th Edition

This best-selling text, HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide, 7th Edition, uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce students to all of today’s HTML5 and CSS essentials. They’ll learn how to design, structure, and format their website; learn about the new elements and form input types in HTML5; create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms; and they’ll add video, audio, and other multimedia to their site. They’ll learn how to add visual effects with CSS3; understand web standards and learn from code examples that reflect today’s best practices. Finally, students will test and debug their site, and publish it to the web.

Need to learn HTML5 fast? This best-selling reference’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML in no time. In this completely updated edition of our best-selling guide to HTML, authors Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop use crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to all of today’s HTML5 and CSS essentials. You’ll learn how to design, structure, and format your website. You’ll learn about the new elements and form input types in HTML5. You’ll create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms; and you’ll add video, audio, and other multimedia to your site. You’ll learn how to add visual effects with CSS3. You’ll understand web standards and learn from code examples that reflect today’s best practices. Finally, you will test and debug your site, and publish it to the web. Throughout the book, the authors will cover all of HTML and offer extensive coverage of HTML5 and CSS techniques.

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.

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.

HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide, 7th Edition

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