Coding a CSS3 & HTML5 One-Page Website Template Web development is an area in which you have to keep up with the latest technologies and techniques, so that you are at the top of your game. And no wonder - this is an area which changes with an amazing pace. What is the standard now will be obsolete in just a couple of years. But changes do not come from nowhere. The early adopters are already using what we are going to use day-to-day a few years from now. One of these technologies is HTML5 - the new version of the fundamental language of the web. Today we are making a HTML5 web template, using some of the new features brought by CSS3 and jQuery, with the scrollTo plug-in. Step 1 - The Design Every design process starts with an initial idea which you later build upon. After this, the design is hand coded with HTML and CSS going hand by hand, moving from designing the background, colors and fonts, to detail work on the content section. Step 2 - HTML It is a good time to note, that HTML5 is still a work in progress. template.html - Article
Preparing for HTML5 with Semantic Class Names Some time ago I was asked in an interview whether I preferred HTML or CSS. It was a bit like being asked if I prefer pens or pencils. I made an instinctive choice. i. HTML 5 will be the first major change to our lingua franca since XHTML 1.0 in 2000; some might say HTML 4.01 in 1999. Let’s get to know these new structural elements a little better. The header element is for page or section headings. A simple example for a page using a semantic class name that corresponds to the HTML 5 header might be: <div class="header"><h1>Page Title</h1></div> You could include the logo mark and other meta information within the layer. <div class="section"><div class="article"><div class="header"><h1>Page Title</h1><p>By <a href="*">Author</a> on [date]</p></div> [Article content…] </div><div class="article"> [Repeat as required…] </div></div> The nav element should contain a set of navigation links, either to other pages, or fragment identifiers in the current page. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. x. xi. xii.
Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms Forms are usually seen as that obnoxious thing we have to markup and style. I respectfully disagree: forms (on a par with tables) are the most exciting thing we have to work with. Here we’re going to take a look at how to style a beautiful HTML5 form using some advanced CSS and latest CSS3 techniques. Here’s what we’ll be creating: The form. Meaningful markup We’re going to style a simple payment form. The person’s details The address details The credit card details We are also going to use some of HTML5’s new input types and attributes to create more meaningful fields and use less unnecessary classes and ids: email, for the email field tel, for the telephone field number, for the credit card number and security code required, for required fields placeholder, for the hints within some of the fields autofocus, to put focus on the first input field when the page loads A good foundation Each section of the form will be contained within its own fieldset. The unstyled form Making things look nice
HTML5: The Basics (1 of 4) The next iteration of HTML has been met with excitement by some, loathing by others and confusion/fear by everyone else. Love it or hate it, HTML 5 will soon define how you build websites. This is the first article in a four part series that will introduce HTML5 and its basic features as well as explain the key differences from HTML4.01 and XHTML 1.0 so you can start preparing yourself and your sites for the transition. Over the next week we’ll be focusing on three major areas: 1. New Elements 2. This article will briefly introduce each of these topics to prepare you for the in-depth articles ahead. APIs Before we dive into the topics listed above, I want to take a minute to look at an extremely important feature that we won’t be covering in its own dedicated article: the new APIs. As you can see, the principal purpose of these APIs is to facilitate web application creation. New Elements in HTML5 HTML5 introduces quite a few new elements. Semantic Changes 1. Getting HTML5 Working Today
How to Make All Browsers Render HTML5 Mark-up Correctly - Even IE6 HTML 5 provides some great new features for web designers who want to code readable, semantically-meaningful layouts. However, support for HTML 5 is still evolving, and Internet Explorer is the last to add support. In this tutorial, we'll create a common layout using some of HTML 5's new semantic elements, then use JavaScript and CSS to make our design backwards-compatible with Internet Explorer. Yes, even IE 6. Tutorial Details Technology: HTMLVersion: 5Difficulty: IntermediateEstimated Completion Time: 1 hour Prefer a Video Tutorial? The HTML 5 Working Draft provides a new set of semantically-meaningful elements for describing a typical web page layout. The HTML 5 elements we'll be using are: headerfooternavarticlehgroup Just by reading the names of the elements, you should get a pretty good idea of what they're for, and that's the point! The one element that may not be obvious is <hgroup>. Step 1: The HTML We're going to recreate the most common layout on the Web, the 2-column layout:
Learning to Love HTML5 Advertisement It seems that new resources and articles for teaching and promoting HTML5 are popping up almost daily. We’ve been given HTML5 templates in the form of the HTML5 boilerplate1 and HTML5 Reset2 (although they both go beyond just HTML5 stuff). We’ve got a plethora of books3 to choose from that cover HTML5 and its related technologies. From my own vantage point — aside from a few disputes8 about what the term “HTML5″ should and shouldn’t mean — the web design and development community has for the most part embraced all the new technologies and semantics with a positive attitude. Flickr Photo by Jeremy Keith9 While it’s certainly true that HTML5 has the potential to change the web for the better, the reality is that these kinds of major changes can be difficult to grasp and embrace. The Good (and Easy) Parts The good stuff in HTML5 has been discussed pretty solidly in a number of sources including books by Bruce Lawson10, Jeremy Keith11, and Mark Pilgrim12, to name a few.
Coding An HTML 5 Layout From Scratch 404 When Steve Jobs refused to allow Flash on iOS devices, he argued that HTML5 could do everything Flash did. He wasn't being entirely honest - the reality distortion field was strong that day - but ultimately Apple won and Adobe didn't; HTML5, not Flash, is the technology that's transforming the web. So what exactly is it, and what does it want from us? What is HTML5? HTML5 is the latest version of Hypertext Markup Language, the code that describes web pages. What's so great about HTML5? HTML5 has been designed to deliver almost everything you'd want to do online without requiring additional software such as browser plugins. There's more. What does HTML5 do? We've come a long way since HTML could barely handle a simple page layout. When will HTML5 be finished? HTML5 is an evolving standard, so it's a bit misleading to talk about when it'll be finished. Do I need an HTML5 browser? You've probably got one already. SKYDRIVE: Microsoft has rolled out support for HTML 5 in Windows Live Liked this?
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