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

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
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0956895611
• ISBN 13: 9780956895615
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316