Name: Jump Start HTML5: Basics
Rating: 4.5 (148 reviews)
Author: Tiffany Brown

Details

HTML5, the latest and greatest version of the language, introduces a host of exciting new features, including video, 2D drawings, and a range of new elements and form controls to make your life as a web developer easier.

What you will learn

How to structure documents with HTML5's new document elements
All about HTML5 forms, including new elements, date and time inputs, and required fields
Ways to use HTML5 multimedia elements to bring your site to life

Description

HTML is the lingua franca of the web—chances are, whenever you read or interact with something in a web browser, it's an HTML document. HTML5, the latest and greatest version of the language, introduces a host of exciting new features, including video, 2D drawings, and a range of new elements and form controls to make your life as a web developer easier. Jump Start HTML5 Basics, the first in a series of five mini-books, will get you up to speed to with HTML5's most exciting new features in no time!

Who is this for?

Although this book is meant for HTML5 beginners, its brevity means that it can’t be comprehensive. As a result, we do assume some prior knowledge of HTML. If you are completely new to web development, SitePoint’s Build Your Own Website Using HTML and CSS may be a better book for you.

Creator

Tiffany Brown

Tiffany B. Brown is a freelance web developer based in Los Angeles, California. She has worked on the web for nearly two decades with a career that includes media companies, marketing agencies, and government. Brown was also part of the Digital Service Team at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, the United States Digital Service, and the Opera Software Developer Relations team. Brown is also a co-author of SitePoint's Jump Start: HTML 5, and has contributed to Dev.Opera, A List Apart, SitePoint.com, and Smashing Magazine.

Reviews

Cindi Clinton

I liked this book. I've been away from web developing for a few years and wanted to reacquaint myself with HTML and see the changes HTML5 brings to the table. This book did that and explained a couple of connections between things I didn't really get before. Worthwhile read! If you are like me and enjoy putting the code through your browser to play and see the examples on your own screen, please note there is an error in the code example on Page 10. They left off the slash to close the style tag. The debugging helped get me back in the swing of coding too lol

Sen Sokha

good book

Ruthran

It's a very good book for HTML basics for even people just getting into any sort of coding. The language is simple and examples are numerous. What more could we want?