Learn to Code HTML & CSS: Develop & Style Websites

by Shay Howe

Learn to Code HTML & CSS is an interactive beginner’s guide with one express goal: to teach you how to develop and style websites with HTML and CSS. Outlining the fundamentals, this book covers all of the common elements of front-end design and development, and lets you work through a real project with code exercises to support each lesson.
*Learn modern HTML and CSS and their syntax and terminology from the ground up
*Build your own web pages with fully semantic, standards-compliant, clean code
*Create modular layouts with a variety of positioning techniques
Use web fonts, and accompanying styles, to display beautiful text and create hierarchy
Add color to your designs with backgrounds and gradients
Enrich and create captivating pages with media
Allow users to provide information and take action with accessible forms
Work through problems and exercises using online examples to build your own website

Genres: Nonfiction, Coding, Computer Science, Technology

293 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 2013

Reviews

[radhika morabia]

fight me nerds. this is a book. I read it. it took up so many hours I could've been reading geronimo stilton. it was also really good, even just as an introduction to legitimately thinking about clean code & accessibility standards. I need to spruce my pages up.

[briz]

This is a review for the online tutorials on which this book is based. It's unclear to me how different the book is from the online tutorials, but the latter are GREAT. Extremely thorough, clear, and helpful - with tons of great resources elsewhere. I've bookmarked this for future use, since it really is incredibly helpful and I'll probably want to refer back to some of the lessons as I move forward. It's really exciting to see the sample website come alive - especially once we add our first CSS stuff! *happy sigh*

Edited to add: Props also to the Bocoup people, from whom I found my way - via recommendations within recommendations - to this resource.

[Eliran Teller]

Very Helpful !

[Ivy DeWitt]

Learn to Code HTML and CSS: Develop and Style Websites is exactly what it says on the tin: a book that teaches you how to craft websites with HTML/CSS. In terms of content, it's not that much different from Shay Howe's site, but it's a nicely condensed version of the same content - and one that you can take with you offline.

What this book does a great job of (and why I prefer it to Duckett's HTML and CSS book), is that the content is relevant and updated, provides a lot of useful tips for beginners, and focuses on best practices and semantic markup. It doesn't gloss over the important of HTML5 semantic elements, and it gives one of the better overviews of it in my opinion (ex: actually describing the difference between vs instead of saying 'use ').

Will update this review further once I finish the book, but at the moment I can stay it's a good, comprehensive overview of HTML & CSS. And for the most part, it boils down to the basics enough that most of the information hasn't become outdated.

[Sylvia]

help you in understand to learning code.

[SHER]

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[Eric]

The first web design book I finished. Good for beginners!

[UniMef]

I like the way Shay presented the material. I also like the fact that it was a project-based.

[Mohammed]

This book good anyone wants to understand CSS3 especially for noobs

[N]

The best part about this book is that it's available online for free!

The lessons are clear and easy to follow.

One thing I would like to see is a chapter on workflow. Going through the book I wasn't sure what the best way to plan out a website is. Content first, then structure, then style, or should you plan them all together? As I was working on my own site, I found myself switching between those aspects more than I should have because I didn't have a plan from the outset. Maybe it would have helped to sketch something out at the beginning. I'm still not sure what the best way to go about it is.