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Publication Date: Feb 7 2011 | Series: Step by Step (Microsoft)

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to create Web pages with the HTML5 specification. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

Use a division-based layout to structure your Web pages
Include menu bars and hyperlinks for clear navigation
Apply colors, font sizes, and other formatting with CSS
Add graphics, sound, and video to your pages
Use the Canvas tag to render visual images on the fly
Build user-input forms with buttons, boxes, and menus

Your Step by Step digital content includes:

All the book's practice files—ready to download and put to work. See "Using the Practice Files," inside.
Fully searchable online edition of this book—with unlimited access on the Web. Free online account required; see inside book.

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Use a division-based layout to structure your Web pages
Include menu bars and hyperlinks for clear navigation
Apply colors, font sizes, and other formatting with CSS
Add graphics, sound, and video to your pages
Use the Canvas tag to render visual images on the fly
Build user-input forms with buttons, boxes, and menus

Your Step by Step digital content includes:

All the book's practice files—ready to download and put to work. See "Using the Practice Files," inside.
Fully searchable online edition of this book—with unlimited access on the Web. Free online account required; see inside book.

Product Details

Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press (Feb 7 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735645264
ISBN-13: 978-0735645264
Product Dimensions: 18.7 x 2.5 x 22.9 cm
Shipping Weight: 658 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #348,362 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #56 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Web Browsers
- #73 in Books > Computers & Technology > Home Computing > Internet > Web Browsers

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About the Author

Faithe Wempen, M.A., is an adjunct instructor of Computer Technology at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, and the author of many books on PC hardware and software. She also develops Web sites for businesses and non-profit organizations, and writes and teaches online computer training courses for corporate clients.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good novice intro Mar 1 2011

By John Brady - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

HTML5 Step by StepHTML5 Step by Step is a good introduction to HTML for the complete novice. "Step by Step" is literally the approach taken in the book, with explicit instructions for each action to be taken. I would not hesitate to recommend this as a first text for the business or hobby user; experienced HTML authors or developers looking for cutting-edge HTML5 features should look elsewhere.

The book uses a Microsoft landscape, so the editing tool of choice is Notepad, and the browser absorbing the most attention is Internet Explorer 9. Users of other operating systems can use the text, but they'll need to be savvy enough to translate the Microsoft terminology to their own platform ( which might be beyond the abilities of a true beginner ). Following the example code using Ubuntu and vi, I did not experience any significant problems.

HTML authoring tools are not covered in order to focus on the underlying HTML building blocks.

Since the instructions provided for the accompanying exercises are so explicit, they consume a great deal of print real estate. That does not leave much room for advanced features of HTML5, and you won't find those here. Hence, once you complete the exercises, this isn't a book you'll retain for reference.

Disclaimer, I was provided access to an electronic copy of this book by O'Reilly Publishing for review purposes.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars HTML5 for easy transition from HTML4 - nicely done Jun 15 2011

By Charles Fountain - Published on Amazon.com

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Writing is very clear - both at broad stoke and low-level detail; obviously lot of effort in selecting (constructing) examples. Plenty of pictures - captions very informative. If you've never mastered HTML 4.01 - no matter - it's easily factored in as you go. Remember HTML5 really is stand-alone from previous versions - so you can learn latest web implementation and ignore old bad habits (tag options being deprecated). Blends very efficiently with new CSS3 standards. Easy to read because of large print size - everything is right to point (wont put you to sleep by page six). Highly recommend this title for beginners new to web page creation. If you have this title all you need now is some additional material on Javascript to move to next level of user-interactivity.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay away from this book! Mar 2 2012

By Mr. Coder - Published on Amazon.com

Format:Paperback

This book is riddled with validation errors. Go ahead and download the source code for this book and run it through the W3C validator. Almost all the examples fail validation. See page 77 for a classic example of bad code. The author nests list items inside anchor tags. How a book like this can make it to press is beyond me. These are not just typos I am talking about, this author is a bad coder!

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