Robin Nixon's Html5 Crash Course: Learn Html5 in 20 Easy Lectures - Softcover

Robin Nixon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956895611 ISBN 13: 9780956895615

Publisher: Nixon Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

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Why you should read this book

Whether you are a professional or amateur web developer you need all the HTML5 tools in your kit, and this book from the author of the best-selling Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaSript, is the fastest and easiest way there is to learn HTML5.

HTML5 is the future of HTML and all developers need to get up-to-speed with what it offers, including audio and video, without using a plug-in, and a canvas area with professional tools for creating paths, lines, curves, shapes, fills, gradients, patterns, text and more.

This book also provides accurate geolocation, background web workers, offline web applications, microdata, a local storage engine and many other improvements to standard HTML, such as dozens of new form tags and attributes, as described in the following chapter list:

1. Introduction to HTML
2. The Layout of an HTML Document
3. The HTML Document Body
4. Fonts, Colors & Images
5. Lists & Tables
6. Links, Forms & Frames
7. List of HTML 4.01 Tags
8. An Introduction To HTML5
9. The HTML5 Canvas
10. Fills, Rectangles, Gradients & Patterns
11. Writing Text To The Canvas
12. Lines, Paths & Curves
13. Images, Shadows & Pixels
14. Compositing, Transparency & Transformations
15. HTML5 Geolocation
16. HTML5 Forms
17. HTML5 Local Storage
18. HTML5 Audio
19. HTML5 Video
20. Microdata, Web Workers & Web Applications

Reasons you will learn all you need from this course:

• Each Lecture begins by listing the three key skills you will learn.
• A summary at the end of each lecture reminds you what you have learned.
• Useful, fully-tested examples illustrate every tag, attribute and function.
• Each lecture features several notes providing extra, handy advice.
• The examples can all be downloaded from the companion website.

About this title

From the Author

My name's Robin Nixon and I'm the author of Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript, one of the best-selling web development books of the last few years. With this new book I wanted to apply the same philosphy to teaching HTML5 (using the same stimulating and easy to read style) so that everyone can make use of its great new features.

As you probably know by now HTML5 isn't any one upgrade to HTML. Rather it's a collection of items that came together at roughly the same time and ended up being called HTML5 - and this course has been written in 20 self-contained lectures that should take you less than 20 hours to learn. In Robin Nixon's HTML5 Crash Course you'll learn about major new technologies such as the canvas, geolocation, audio and video, as well as the new extensions made to HTML forms, microdata and web workers. Collectively all these things have become known as HTML5, and as a web developer you need to know what they are and how to use them.

With this book you'll be right at home as I introduce all the HTML extensions that have been added to HTML5 one by one, with plenty of examples, and you won't find the going tough learning to use the features that require JavaScript, because I introduce just the essential code needed to make the HTML5 technologies function. It's basically cut and paste. I'm certain that you will find that Robin Nixon's HTML5 Crash Course reveals in detail how the powerful new HTML5 features work - giving you all the details you need to knit them into fast, tight and compelling web pages.

About the Author

Robin Nixon has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s (his first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Model 1 with a massive 4KB of RAM!). During this time he has written ten books, and in excess of 500 articles for many of the UK’s top computer magazines. Robin lives on the southeast coast of England with his wife, Julie, a trained nurse, five children and three disabled foster children, where he works full time as a book author and publisher.

Edition details

• Publisher: Nixon Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956895611
• ISBN 13: 9780956895615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316