Video tutorial - HTML5 & CSS3 Fundamentals: Development for Absolute Beginners

01 - Series Introduction

In this first lesson, Bob sets expectations and provides a brief overview of the upcoming series.

02 - Creating Your First HTML5 Web Page

Warm up your keyboard and get ready to work. In this lesson—an important foundation for the series as a whole—you'll be fully immersed in what it takes to build an HTML5 web page, including the utilization of HTML5 structural elements in a real scenario.

03 - Styling Your First HTML5 Web Page with CSS3

Now that you've built a semantically well-structured and marked-up HTML5 web page, you'll apply a CSS3 style sheet to give the new page a simple but attractive appearance.

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04 - Understanding the HTML5 You Wrote

In Lesson 2, you worked with Bob to create a semantically correct HTML5 page. But Bob didn't spend much time explaining each individual element—its purpose, your options, etc. That process begins in this lesson as he talks about what makes HTML5 special, the purpose for things like DOCTYPE, meta tags, charset, UTF-8, html, why "semantics" is important, the head and body tags, and more.

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05 - Working with Paragraphs and Text

In this lesson, Bob discusses the various semantic meanings of popular HTML5 inline tags useful for marking up text inside of paragraphs, including b, i, small, em, mark, span, and much more.

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06 - Defining the Structure of Your Document

Moving beyond the text, this lesson discusses how to give semantic meaning to the various elements of a web page using header, footer, aside, nave, h1 through h2, article, section, and more.

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07 - Working with Figures and Images

This lesson demonstrates how to include images as well as whole figures with captions in your HTML5 web pages.

08 - Working with Lists

We've already used a few list style tags in our HTML5 pages, but now we'll learn how to create a semantically rich set of lists for creating ordered and unordered lists, definitions of terms, and using lists to create navigation—a popular technique in web development.

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09 - Creating Tables

The oft-maligned table still has a semantic purpose in HTML5: to display tabular information. This lesson demonstrates the many different ways to structure tabular data in HTML5, including headers, rows, columns, footers, column groups, and more.

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10 - Creating Forms

This lesson demonstrates how to add a rudimentary level of interactivity to your web pages by allowing users to input information via forms. We'll look at over a dozen examples of common form elements allowing us to guide the user to input high-quality data.

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11 - Form Validation and Other Future HTML5 Form Enhancements

This video looks toward new HTML5 form features used in Internet Explorer 10 and later. First up is a look at using new input elements and attributes for creating richer forms. Bob then demonstrates how built-in validation works and how it can reduce the amount of JavaScript required by web pages hosting forms.

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12 - Understanding Cascading Style Sheets

In Lesson 3, you worked with Bob to create an external Cascading Style Sheet that provides a simple but attractive aesthetic improvement to the HTML5 web page. This lesson picks up where that lesson left off by discussing the basics of CSS as well as how you can define styles and target certain elements of your HTML5 web pages using selectors.

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13 - CSS3 Font and Text Properties

In this lesson we focus on the CSS properties specific to modifying font and text properties on HTML5 web pages. Tune in for a discussion about font-family stacks, common units used for defining relative and absolute sizes, the various font-related modifiers, and much more.

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14 - CSS3 Color and Background Properties

You can easily modify the colors and backgrounds of various HTML5 elements using CSS3 and this lesson demonstrates how, starting with the various ways you can define a color in CSS and expanding to how to set background images with alignment, tiling, and more.

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15 - CSS3 List and Table Properties

In Lessons 7 and 8 you learned about Lists and Tables. In this lesson, you learn various properties exposed by CSS3 that allow you to provide a professional style to your Lists and Tables.

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16 - CSS3 Box Properties

This lesson makes the important distinction between inline-display and block-display in HTML5 elements. For block-style elements, it is vital to understand the box model and this lesson provides that background as well as an overview of the CSS3 properties for properly styling block-style elements.

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17 - Working with CSS3 Font-Face

Designers rely on typography to communicate and emote along with the message of the text itself. The font-face is just one more tool that designers can use to widen the prospective array of typefaces that are accessible in HTML5 web pages.

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18 - Embedding Video in HTML5

In this video we dive back into HTML5 and examine the basics of the video tag to add progressively downloaded / pseudo-streamed video to your web pages. We discuss the various options available, as well as the necessary codecs required to make it all work.

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19 - Working with the HTML5 Canvas

The HTML5 Canvas allows JavaScript savvy developers to draw bitmapped images directly into HTML5 web pages. This video provides a simple example in order to show how this works at a high level, reviewing the process of drawing on the canvas via JavaScript.

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20 - Working with SVG in HTML5

Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, has been a web standard for many years but has gained renewed interest after being included in the HTML5 specification. SVG allows you to define vector shapes using XML, and these shapes can even be styled with CSS and scripted with JavaScript. In this video, we demonstrate how to use an exported SVG document from Adobe Illustrator in a web page using the img tag as well as embedding the code directly in an HTML5 page. Finally, we show how to add interactivity to an SVG image using JavaScript.

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21 - Where to Go From Here

In this final video, Bob provides a roadmap for topics that will help you take your newfound knowledge much further. Topics include a short history of laying out web pages in HTML and CSS, current directions in web page layout with grid based and liquid—or rather, responsive—web design, mobile first design, and more. He lists a number of open source CSS frameworks and utilities, and finally a few books for more information.

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