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A complete training package--full-color book and instructional video--teaches you HTML5

HTML5 boasts extensive new features that allow you to create dynamic Web pages and present users with amazing multimedia experiences. This personal training course uses a full-color book plus video tutorials to teach you how to take full advantage of the new Web standard for creating rich multimedia experiences. While learning at your own pace, you'll discover how to approach site concept creation and bring your vision from the drawing board through to full operability. The step-by-step directions, lesson files, and instructional videos demonstrate the many exciting features of HTML5.

• HTML5 allows you to create dynamic Web pages; this text-and-video package offers step-by-step training on its abilities
• Presents 15 lessons in full color, supported by video tutorials and lesson files, all of which allow you to work at your own pace
• Demonstrates how to code, develop, and test Web sites
• Explores the many ways the newest version of HTML differs from previous iterations

You'll feel like you have your own personal instructor teaching you HTML5 with HTML5 Digital Classroom.

Note: DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. These materials are available for download upon purchase.

Part of the New Perspectives Series, this thorough, engaging includes everything readers need to learn to create simple to complex Web sites using HTML, XHTML, and DHTML.

No matter what platform or tools you use, the HTML5 revolution will soon change the way you build web applications, if it hasn't already. HTML5 is jam-packed with features, and there's a lot to learn. This book gets you started with the Canvas element, perhaps HTML5's most exciting feature. Learn how to build interactive multimedia applications using this element to draw, render text, manipulate images, and create animation.

Whether you currently use Flash, Silverlight, or just HTML and JavaScript, you'll quickly pick up the basics. Practical examples show you how to create various games and entertainment applications with Canvas as you learn. Gain valuable experience with HTML5, and discover why leading application developers rave about this specification as the future of truly innovative web development.

• Create and modify 2D drawings, text, and bitmap images
• Incorporate and manipulate video, and add audio
• Build a basic framework for creating a variety of games on Canvas
• Use bitmaps and tile sheets to develop animated game graphics
• Go mobile: port Canvas applications to iPhone with PhoneGap
• Explore ways to use Canvas for 3D and multiplayer game applications

With over 60,000 copies sold since its first edition, this SitePoint best-seller has just had a fresh update to include recent advances in the web industry.

With the first two editions coming highly recommended by established, leading web designers and developers, the third edition with all its extra goodies will continue that trend. Also fully updated to include the latest operating systems, web browsers and providing fixes to issues that have cropped up since the last edition.

Readers will learn to:

• Style text and control your page layout with CSS
• Create and Optimize graphics for the Web
• Add interactivity to your sites with forms
• Include a custom search, contact us page, and a News/Events section on your site
• Track visitors with Google Analytics
• Extend your reach and connect your site with Social Media
• Use HTML5&CSS3 to add some cool, polished features to your site
• Use diagnosis/debug tools to find any problems

What people are saying about Building iPhone Apps w/ HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

"The future of mobile development is clearly web technologies like CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Jonathan Stark shows you how to leverage your existing web development skills to build native iPhone applications using these technologies."
--John Allsopp, author and founder of Web Directions

"Jonathan's book is the most comprehensive documentation available for developing web applications for mobile Safari. Not just great tech coverage, this book is an easy read of purely fascinating mobile tidbits in a fun colloquial style. Must have for all PhoneGap developers."
-- Brian LeRoux, Nitobi Software

It's a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you'll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa.

Device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and this book shows you how to create one product for several platforms. You'll find guidelines for converting your product into a native iPhone app using the free PhoneGap framework. And you'll learn why releasing your product as a web app first helps you find, fix, and test bugs much faster than if you went straight to the App Store with a product built with Apple's tools.

• Build iPhone apps with tools you already know how to use
• Learn how to make an existing website look and behave like an iPhone app
• Add native-looking animations to your web app using jQTouch
• Take advantage of client-side data storage with apps that run even when the iPhone is offline
• Hook into advanced iPhone features -- including the accelerometer, geolocation, and vibration -- with JavaScript
• Submit your applications to the App Store with Xcode

This book received valuable community input through O'Reilly's Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS). Learn more at http://labs.oreilly.com/ofps.html.

The Definitive Guide to HTML5 provides the breadth of information you'll need to start creating the next generation of HTML5 websites. It covers all the base knowledge required for standards-compliant, semantic, modern website creation. It also covers the full HTML5 ecosystem and the associated APIs that complement the core HTML5 language.
The Definitive Guide to HTML5 begins by tackling the basics of HTML5, ensuring that you know best practices and key uses of all of the important elements, including those new to HTML5. This section also covers extended usage of CSS3, JavaScript, and DOM manipulation, making you proficient in all core aspects of modern website creation.
The final part of the book covers the associated W3C APIs that surround the HTML5 specification. You will achieve a thorough working knowledge of the Geolocation API, web storage, creating offline applications, and the new drag and drop functionality. The Definitive Guide to HTML5 also dives into the key media enhancements of HTML5 and its surrounding technologies: Canvas, video and audio.

• How to use all of the core features of HTML5
• How to make the most of the APIs that surround HTML5, such as Geolocation, Web Storage, and drag and drop
• How to leverage the media capabilities of the modern web: Canvas, audio, and video

Web developers and designers who want to increase their HTML5 skills to create modern, standards-compliant websites.

1. Putting HTML in Context
2. Getting Ready
3. Getting Started with HTML
4. Getting Started with CSS
5. Getting Started with JavaScript
6. HTML Elements in Context
7. Creating HTML Documents
8. Marking Up Text
9. Grouping Content
10. Creating Sections
11. Working with Tables
12. Working with Forms
13. Customizing the Input Element
14. Other Forms Elements & Input Validation
15. Embedding Content
16. CSS In Context
17. Using the CSS Selectors – Part I
18. Using the CSS Selectors – Part II
19. Using Borders &Backgrounds
20. Working with the Box Model
21. Creating Layouts
22. Styling Text
23. Transitions, Animations & Transforms
24. Other CSS Properties & Features
25. The DOM in Context
26. Working with the Document Object
27. Working with the Window Object
28. Working with DOM Elements
29. Styling DOM Elements
30. Working with Events
31. Using the Element-Specific Objects
32. Using Ajax – Part I
33. Using Ajax – Part II
34. Working with Multimedia
35. Using the Canvas – Part I
36. Using the Canvas – Part II
37. Using Drag & Drop
38. Using Geolocation
39. Using Web Storage
40. Creating Offline Applications

After years of using spacer GIFs, layers of nested tables, and other improvised solutions for building your web sites, getting used to the more stringent standards-compliant design can be intimidating. HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference is the perfect little book when you need answers immediately.
Jennifer Niederst-Robbins, author Web Design in a Nutshell, has revised and updated the fourth edition of this pocket guide by taking the top 20% of vital reference information from her Nutshell book, augmenting it judiciously, cross-referencing everything, and organizing it according to the most common needs of web developers. The result is a handy book that offers the bare essentials on web standards in a small, concise format that you can use carry anywhere for quick reference.
HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference features easy-to-find listings of every HTML and XHTML tag, and every Cascading Style Sheet value. It's an indispensable reference for any serious web designer, author, or programmer who needs a fast on-the-job resource when working with established web standards.

New Web authoring tools such as Claris Home Page, Microsoft FrontPage, and Adobe PageMill almost take care of all the HTML markup needed to build great-looking Web pages. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, the spirit of innovation rages on at companies like Netscape and Microsoft -- and stays well-ahead of even the best Web authoring tools. That's why it pays to have the completely updated HTML For Dummies, 3rd Edition, on hand so that you peer under the hood of your Web pages to add Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer enhancements, JavaScript, ActiveX, and Java applets that heighten the functionality and style of your whole Web site. Plus, Web pros Ed Tittel and Steven N. James share their savvy advice on when and when not to use nonstandard HTML tags, including how to accommodate visitors using early, less capable browsers, and how to organize a large Web site so that it makes sense to you and your visitors. Best of all, HTML For Dummies, Third Edition, includes a bonus disk containing HTML templates, software, and other terrific resources to help you build great Web pages fast.

PhoneGap is a growing and leading open-source mobile web apps development framework that lets developers build JavaScript and HTML5-based web applications with native wrappers for more than six mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. This framework lets you build HTML- and JavaScript-based apps and still take advantage of native mobile device capabilities like camera, localStorage, geolocation, storage and much more, irrespective of the mobile platform you target. It also lets you use more specialized JavaScript frameworks like jQuery Mobile and more.

Beginning PhoneGap is a definitive, one-of-a-kind book that teaches the fundamentals and strategies behind cross-platform mobile application development. Instead of learning languages like Objective-C, focus on building apps from day one for Android, iOS, Blackberry, WebOS and Symbian—without the complexities of these platforms.

This book shows how to build apps which makes use of Google Local Search to create a Restaurant finder apps (which uses Maps to layout locations and uses internal database to store your favorite restaurants. Furthermore, you'll learn how to extend PhoneGap's functionality by using PhoneGap plugins to write apps like Dropbox (syncing files in the background outside HTML/JavaScript code and in native code).
By the time you finish Beginning PhoneGap, you'll know PhoneGap inside and out, and, consequently, be able to develop mobile web apps faster and more efficiently than ever before. Make more money in less time!

This book offers an examples-based approach on how to build PhoneGap-based HTML and JavaScript that integrates device features like geolocation, camera, storage, and more.

• To understand mobile web applications development using the PhoneGap framework
• How to build simple apps for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, WebOS and Symbian
• The differences in capabilities across various mobile devices
• How to integrate other popular mobile JavaScript frameworks to build user interfaces in PhoneGap
• All the major features in PhoneGap, like geolocation, camera, media, storage, and more.
• How to build app which make use of OAuth for authentication with services like Facebook
• How to extend PhoneGap using the PhoneGap plugin development framework

This book is for project managers and developers of mobile applications who plan to develop for more than one platform, and are interested in saving money and time in the development process.

Make mark-up language more manageable with this visual guide

HTML5 is the next-generation of web standard mark-up language, and among other things, it offers amazing new avenues for incorporating multimedia into your sites. What easier way to master all of HTML5's new bells and whistles than with a guide that shows you, screenshot by screenshot, just what to do? Over a hundred tasks that web designers need to know most are explained using, full-color screenshots and how-to steps. From the easy stuff like revised new header and footer elements to complex updates such as canvas and audio, this guide covers the new, as well as most-commonly used, tags and features.

• Helps you get up to speed on the completely redesigned new HyperText Markup Language, HTML5
• Shows you how to incorporate rich media content into the sites you design, without relying on proprietary software such as Flash
• Explains revisions, from essential structural elements like header and footer to more complex elements such as canvas and audio—over a hundred tasks in all
• Uses easy-to-follow, full-color, two-page tutorials, so you can see step by step how to do tasks and quickly obtain the information you need

Web designers, keep your HTML skills up to date with this "learn-by-seeing," visual guide. From the Book: Sample Instructions for HTML5 Tasks