Robin Nixon's HTML5 Crash Course: Learn HTML5 in 20 Easy Lessons [Kindle Edition]

Robin Nixon (Author)

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• I think it was very good in general. He helped explain all the small individual parts of HTML and HTML5 - Juan Rafael Lopez, Udemy.com
• Takes even the biggest n00bie and turns them into an HTML5 coder by the end... and it's all in ordered steps so you don't get lost. - AppSumo

Product Description

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, as described in the following chapter list:

1. Introduction to HTML
2. The Layout of an HTML Document
3. The HTML Document Body
4. Fonts, Colors & Images
5. Lists & Tables
6. Links, Forms & Frames
7. List of HTML 4.01 Tags
8. An Introduction To HTML5
9. The HTML5 Canvas
10. Fills, Rectangles, Gradients & Patterns
11. Writing Text To The Canvas
12. Lines, Paths & Curves
13. Images, Shadows & Pixels
14. Compositing, Transparency & Transformations
15. HTML5 Geolocation
16. HTML5 Forms
17. HTML5 Local Storage
18. HTML5 Audio
19. HTML5 Video
20. Microdata, Web Workers & Web Applications

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.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 4510 KB
• Publisher: Nixon Publishing (July 30, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005FCIVLS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,290 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #11 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Computers & Internet > Web Site Design
  • #70 in Books > Computers & Technology > Graphic Design > Web Design

More About the Author

Robin Nixon has been a writer for 30 years, has written in excess of 500 articles for many of the UK's top magazines, and has authored over a dozen books.

Robin started his writing career in the Cheshire homes for disabled people, where he was responsible for setting up computer rooms in a number of residential homes, evaluating and tailoring hardware and software so that disabled people could use the new technology, and writing supporting documentation and articles for a selection of national magazines.

After this Robin's career became a hundred percent writing-oriented when he joined a large magazine publisher, where he held a variety of different editorial positions, before leaving to become a self-employed writer.

With the dawn of the Internet in the 1990s, Robin branched out into developing websites (including the world's first licensed Internet radio station). In order to enable people to continue to surf while listening, Robin also developed the first known pop-up windows.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s Robin and his family moved to the USA a couple of times, once to run a web design company in California, and then again to set up an English Tearoom in Texas. In between times they ran several successful pubs, bed and breakfasts and nightclubs in England.

In recent years Robin has begun to focus more closely on motivation and personal improvement in his writing, while still continuing to produce more in his popular series of books on computing, which have now been translated into several different languages.

Robin lives on the south-east coast of England (where he writes full time), along with his five children and wife Julie (a trained nurse and university lecturer) - between them they also foster three disabled children.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Everything, seriously, January 27, 2012

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This review is from: Robin Nixon's HTML5 Crash Course: Learn HTML5 in 20 Easy Lessons (Kindle Edition)

Picked this book up for promo but I would have happily paid full price for it after having a look. This seems like an experienced users guide, but it really starts from scratch and builds from there. Written for the non-programmer, I found it much easier to read that any of the "random drawing of an animal" programming books.