Having just concluded our third SitePoint course, CSS Live with Russ Weakley, it’s with genuine excitement that we announce details of two new courses that will knock your socks off!
HTML5 Live and CSS3 Live with John Allsopp
We’re all really excited with the prospect of HTML5 and CSS3. Heck, I’m a marketer, and even I can see the positive impact this long overdue and refreshing change to the way we build websites will have.
But there’s also a lot of hype and many conflicting opinions that do nothing but serve to confuse us all. That’s why I’m so pleased that we’ve partnered with John to develop both an HTML5 course and a CSS3 course that smash through the hype.
These courses will focus on what you as a web designer can use and apply to your own or your clients’ websites right now.
If you’re a web designer or developer and want to keep up with the HTML5 and CSS3 revolutions, these are two courses you don’t want to miss.
Grab a Double Dose of HTML5 and CSS3 — and Save $5
If $9.95 and $14.95 isn’t cheap enough for these courses, I’ll throw in more incentive. Sign up for both — and I’ll knock $5 off the price. That’s the two-week HTML5 course and the three-week CSS3 course for only $19.90!
These courses appear to be for existing web developers to expand their knowledge. Does anyone have a good starter class or book to recommend? I currently only know enough to be dangerous
@Linda, for a book I’d recommend Ian Lloyd’s Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, 2nd Edition (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html2/)
These courses appear to be for existing web developers to expand their knowledge. Does anyone have a good starter class or book to recommend? I currently only know enough to be dangerous.
The only part that is live is the Q&A sessions. We’ll repeat them several times to cover off different time zones, and those will get posted to the FAQ page for each course.
That is exciting news! There were a lot of requests for these during CSS live.
The dates are a bit unfortunate as their right in the middle of the summer holidays around here.
I know they’ll be available afterwards but I also hope you will do these again soon, as following a course live with a large group active on the forums at the same time and attending the live Q&A really rocked in CSS live.
The HTML5 and CSS3 courses assume some knowledge of existing markup (HTML 4 or XHTML) and CSS standards. This is because both are extensions or additions to existing standards. But, in general, all the courses have been pretty accessible to somebody with minimal knowledge. The CSS Live course with Russ Weakley would be fine for somebody with only HTML experience. And, the same pretty much goes for the javascript and PHP courses. Though, it would make sense to get a good grasp on HTML and CSS before trying javascript or PHP in general.
While I haven’t read them, most of the Sitepoint books are generally recommended as being good for beginners. Perhaps this one?
Actually we listed the date for CSS3 incorrectly – it starts August 16 and runs through until the first week of September (John running two courses in parallel would have been impressive!). Not sure if that changes things for you? (above post updated)
HTML5 actually started a couple of days ago but the live Q&A sessions haven’t taken place yet so you can catch up. You should have received an email receipt with details to register. If you didn’t, PM me your email address and I’ll take a look.
I have just paid to do both the HTML5 and CSS 3 courses. Can’t wait.
When do I get the details on where to go when the course starts etc?
Also, Jeffrey Zeldman posted on his blog that if you do the courses you get a 20% discount for the HTML5 for designers book. Is this being arrange by Sitepoint?
Some other people reported problems getting the emails about new lessons as well. Personally, I just go right to the dashboard shortly after the new lessons are supposed to be posted.
