HTML5 Step by Step

by Faithe Wempen

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to create Web pages with the HTML5 specification. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

Use a division-based layout to structure your Web pages Include menu bars and hyperlinks for clear navigation Apply colors, font sizes, and other formatting with CSS Add graphics, sound, and video to your pages Use the Canvas tag to render visual images on the fly Build user-input forms with buttons, boxes, and menus

Your Step by Step digital content includes:

All the book's practice files—ready to download and put to work. See "Using the Practice Files," inside. Fully searchable online edition of this book—with unlimited access on the Web. Free online account required; see inside book.

416 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great book. The only reason I held back from giving it 5 stars were the number of typos in it. Other than that, it was an easy to read and easy to use guide to html5 for this novice. I had never done any html and now have a fully functioning website that was painfree to design! I would recommend this book to any beginner.

[Tom Olson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Originally submitted at O'Reilly

This is a well structured and clear book about how to write articles and code using HTML5. If you are looking to create or adjust content for the web and don't really have much experience, this provides good introductory material to get you on your feet.

If you have decent HTML knowledge you will want to avoid reading the book cover to cover, because much of the basics are covered here. Particular newer topics you should look at include the newer tags (like article and nav) and the newer input types (like the slider, date picker or spin box). The color picker input type wasn't mentioned, but it only really works in Opera so it's a very minor omission.

One slight disappointment about this book was that it didn't discuss some of the other aspects of HTML5, such as offline storage or location services. I understand those capabilities do assume JavaScript knowledge beyond the neophyte level, but mentioning these aspects of HTML5 in passing would've been nice. I did like the introduction to the canvas tag, and how it gave a brief introduction to JavaScript and jQuery to make the first experience fairly simple.

Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this through O'Reilly Media.

[Hamed Mazaheri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book for learn web design with HTML5, but better that you know something about HTML and CSS. Good practice that will greatly contribute to better learning. If you are familiar with web design at a high level, this book isn't very good for you otherwise this is awesome!

I kinda think read this book is very helpful and recommended to you.

[Jose Fuertes]

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[Dee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very useful resource for learning HTML. Not a time-consuming skill to pick up, at all.

[Hapsoro Permana · Rating 3 out of 5]

found this book quite useful during my final project.

[Michele · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this to be an excellent resource.

[Siva Kumar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I want to read full book