Master innovative and eye-catching website design with the
exciting new Treehouse Series of books
Turn plain words and images into stunning websites using HTML5
and this beautiful, full-colour guide. Taking you beyond the
constraints of prebuilt themes and simple site building tools, this
new Treehouse book combines practicality with inspiration to show
you how to create fully customized, modern, and dazzling websites
that make viewers want to stop and stay.
The exciting new Treehouse Series of books is authored by
Treehouse experts and packed with innovative design ideas and
practical skill-building. If you’re a web developer, web designer,
hobbyist, or career-changer, every book in this practical new
series should be on your bookshelf.
* Part of the new Treehouse Series of books, teaching you
effective and compelling website development and design, helping
you build practical skills
* Provides career-worthy information from Treehouse industry pros
and trainers
* Explains HTML5 basics, such as how to format text, add scripts
to pages, and use HTML5 for audio and video
* Also covers hypermedia, CSS and Java Script, embedding video,
geolocation, and much more
Leverage pages of dazzling website design ideas and expert
instruction with a new Treehouse Series book.
Table of Content
Introduction 1
Part 1: Creating Web Pages with HTML5
Chapter One: Getting Started with HTML5 7
Chapter Two: Structuring a Web Page 25
Chapter Three: Creating the Page Templates 53
Chapter Four: Creating the Web Pages 73
Part 2: Dealing with Data
Chapter Five: Working with Forms 109
Chapter Six: Enhancing Your Web Forms with HTML5 141
Chapter Seven: Validating Form Data Using HTML5 157
Chapter Eight: Using Microdata 167
Chapter Nine: Ensuring Accessibility 189
Part 3: Enhancing Web Pages with HTML5 and Java Script
Chapter Ten: Introducing Java Script 209
Chapter Eleven: Adding Video and Audio 237
Chapter Twelve: Storing Data 265
Part 4: Advanced HTML5 Technologies
Chapter Thirteen: Using Geolocation 285
Chapter Fourteen: Using Canvas to Create Online Ads 299
Appendix A: Additional HTML Markup for Text 333
Appendix B: HTML Elements Index 339
Appendix C: Where to Go from Here 355
Index 357
About the author
MATT WEST (@Matt Ant West) is the founder of Developer
City, where he builds HTML5 websites for firms around the world.
Matt is a hybrid, dealing with both the design and development of
the website projects he works on. Working on open source projects,
Matt taught himself how to code and has since built everything from
small business websites to advanced route optimizers.
Treehouse is a consortium of web and software designers
and developers whose mission is to bring affordable technology
education to people everywhere, in order to help them achieve their
dreams and change the world. In keeping with that mission, the
Treehouse Series of books are authored by experts and loaded with
innovative design ideas and practical skill-building instruction.
If you’re a web developer, web designer, hobbyist, or
career-changer, every book in the series belongs on your
bookshelf.