The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design has been fully
revised from its critically acclaimed first edition, and updated to
include all of the new features and best practices of HTML5 and CSS3.
This book reveals all you'll need to design great web sites that are
standards-compliant, usable, and aesthetically pleasing, but it won't
overwhelm you with waffle, theory, or obscure details!
You will find The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design
invaluable at any stage of your career, with its mixture of practical
tutorials and reference material. Beginners will quickly pick up the
basics, while more experienced web designers and developers will keep
returning to the book again and again to read up on techniques they may
not have used for a while, or to look up properties, attributes and
other details. This book is destined to become a close friend, adopting
a permanent place on your desk.
The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design starts off with a
brief introduction to the web and web design, before diving straight in
to HTML5 and CSS3 basics, reusing code, and other best practices you can
adopt. The book then focuses on the most important areas of a successful
web site: typography, images, navigation, tables, layouts, forms and
feedback (including ready-made PHP scripts) and browser quirks, hacks
and bugs.
The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design is completely
up-to-date, covering support of the newest standards in all the latest
browsers, including IE 9 and Firefox 4. The last chapter of the book
provides several case studies to dissect and learn from, including all
the most popular web site archetypes-a blog, a store front, a corporate
home page, and an online gallery. You'll also appreciate several
detailed reference appendices covering CSS, HTML, color references,
entities, and more-any details you need to look up will be close at
hand.
