Robin Nixon's HTML5 Crash Course: 1 - Softcover

Robin Nixon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956895611 ISBN 13: 9780956895615

Publisher: Nixon Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

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.

It 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.

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 is a motivational and technical author who has written over ten books for publishers such as O'Reilly, McGraw-Hill and Wiley, and in excess of 500 magazine articles. He is also the founder of Nixon Publishing.

In 1995 he started the world's first licensed Internet radio station. As well as attracting the attention of Microsoft, who helped him to develop the audio player, as a result of which he was interviewed by BBC2 TV who came to film the operation he had set up.

Robin has been the director of several Internet and software development companies in both the UK and US, and has in excess of 15 years' experience with developing for the Internet. He lives on the South East coast of England with his wife, a trained psychiatric nurse and university lecturer on Autism, five children and three disabled foster children.

Other books by Robin Nixon:

• The PC Companion, Sigma 1993
• The Amstrad Notepad Advanced User Guide, Sigma 1993
• Learning PHP, MySQL and JavaScript, O'Reilly 2009
• Ubuntu: Up and Running, O'Reilly 2010
• Plug-in PHP, McGraw-Hill 2010
• Plug-in JavaScript, McGraw-Hill 2010
• Plug-in CSS, McGraw-Hill 2011
• HTML5 For iOS And Android, McGraw-Hill, 2011
• Creative Visualization For Dummies, Wiley 2011

Edition details

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