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Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch - Smashing Magazine

Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement HTML5 and CSS3 have just arrived (kinda), and with them a whole new battle for the ‘best markup’ trophy has begun. Truth to be told, all these technologies are mere tools waiting for a skilled developer to work on the right project. As developers we shouldn’t get into pointless discussions of which markup is the best. They all lead to nowhere. Rather, we must get a brand new ideology and modify our coding habits to keep the web accessible. While it is true HTML5 and CSS3 are both a work in progress and is going to stay that way for some time, there’s no reason not to start using it right now. So today we’re going to experiment a little with these new technologies. It’d be a good idea to have a read at some of these articles first: I’ll also assume you know the basics of HTML and CSS. Before we begin… There’s a couple of things you have to bear in mind before adventuring on the new markup boat. A word on Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation 1. 2. <! A few highlights:

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CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites - Dec 18 2009 By Tim Wright and TJ Kelly CSS is the best thing to happen to the web since Tim Berners-Lee. It’s simple, powerful, and easy to use. Touch The Future: Create An Elegant Website With HTML 5 And CSS3 I’m sure that who chooses to work as web designer makes a choice of heart, a choice of love. He/she decides to bet any given day on his creativity and his ability of producing an idea and of making it tangible, visible and perceptible for all. These crazy men have my respect. But, also when the creative side is very important for a work, there exists a logical (and technical) part in all creative process. There are some moments and situations in which the creative mind needs an analytical method to achieve the objective, that is, for us, the creation of a well-done website.

HTML5 Presentation In March 1936, an unusual confluence of forces occurred in Santa Clara County. A long cold winter delayed the blossoming of the millions of cherry, apricot, peach, and prune plum trees covering hundreds of square miles of the Valley floor. Then, unlike many years, the rains that followed were light and too early to knock the blossoms from their branches. HTML5 This specification defines the 5th major version, second minor revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features continue to be introduced to help Web application authors, new elements continue to be introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention continues to be given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at

CSS3 Tutorials to Brighten Up Your Day - Noupe Design Blog Jan 25 2011 As we all know, a lot of complicated CSS code snippets had to be used back then when you simply wanted to achieve a rounded corner, and even had to use JavaScript for simple animations. But since the coming out of CSS3, life has become a lot easier. In this post we provide you with a great collection you can always turn back to; whether you’re a pro and haven’t seen that particular tutorial yet, or a beginner who has newly discovered their love for CSS3. Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps: position static relative abs 1. position:static The default positioning for all elements is position:static, which means the element is not positioned and occurs where it normally would in the document. Normally you wouldn't specify this unless you needed to override a positioning that had been previously set. 2. position:relative If you specify position:relative, then you can use top or bottom, and left or right to move the element relative to where it would normally occur in the document.

HTML 5 <ruby> Tag The HTML <ruby> tag is used for specifying Ruby annotations, which is used in East Asian typography. Ruby (also spelt rubi) characters are small, annotative glosses that can be placed above or to the right of a Chinese character when writing logographic languages such as Chinese or Japanese to show the pronunciation. Ruby annotations, are usually used as a pronunciation guide for relatively obscure characters. The <ruby> tag was introduced in HTML 5. Example HTML5 Latest Published Version: Latest Editor's Draft: Previous Versions: Editors: Useful HTML5 &amp; CSS3 Toolbox For Web Developers / HTML 5 / Splashnology - Web Design and Web Technology Community inShare0 HTML5 and CSS3 are really revolutionizing web development and web design, because they are bringing so many new features to work with to the fields. In this article you’ll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features. Here we present you, a list HTML5 tutorials and techniques that you can’t miss if you are a web developer. A Web Developer’s Guide to HTML 5

CSS in Depth: Floats and Positions Last week, in the first of our CSS In Depth post, we discussed the difference between paddings and margins, and what the box model is. This week we’ll be discussing positions and floats as well as what the differences are and when it’s best to use them. Both floats and positions deal with the relationship of elements between each other.

22 Excellent HTML5 Tutorials HTML5 is giving web designers and developers new capabilities in the world of web development. With the presence of HTML5, web application development will be more fun. HTML5 introduces a number of new elements and attributes that reflect typical usage on modern websites. Some of them are semantic replacements for common uses of generic block (<div>) and inline (<span>) elements, for example <nav> (website navigation block) and <footer> (usually referring to bottom of web page or to last lines of html code). HTML 5 features like Canvas, local storage, and Web Workers let us do more in the browser than ever before. Even though HTML5 is not fully supported in major browsers, there are those that are pushing forward and experimenting with its new features.

How to get HTML5 working in IE and Firefox 2 HTML 5 may be the latest and greatest technology, but some browsers don’t have native support for the new semantic elements. Let’s momentarily forget about the really sexy functionality, like full control over the <video> element, and just focus on getting the elements rendered. The problematic A-grade browsers include IE 8 and below, Firefox 2, and Camino 1 (these last two browsers both use the Gecko rendering engine, which is why they’re both affected). Let’s start with Internet Explorer. HTML5 structure - DIV, SECTION, ARTICLE A weblog article Weblog article TitleContent… In HTML4 we’d probably wrap the article in <div class="article"> etc. Obviously we should use <article> instead in HTML5.

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. I promise you will want to style your own forms after you’ve read this article. Here’s what we’ll be creating:

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