The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design, 1st ed.

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.

1. An introduction to web design
2. Web page essentials
3. Working with type
4. Working with images
5. Using links and creating navigation
6. Tables: How nature (and the W3C) intended
7. Page layouts with CSS
8. Getting user feedback
9. Dealing with browser quirks
10. Putting everything together
11. Appendix A: HTML5 Reference
12. Appendix B: Web Color Reference
13. Appendix C: Entities Reference
14. Appendix D: CSS3 Reference

A contemporary update of Craig Grannell's acclaimed The Essential Guide to CSS and HTML Web Design—now featuring coverage of HTML5 and CSS3!