Whether you are a professional or amateur web developer you need all the HTML5 tools in your kit, and this book from the author of the best-selling Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaSript, is the fastest and easiest way there is to learn HTML5.

HTML5 is the future of HTML and all developers need to get up-to-speed with what it offers, including audio and video, without using a plug-in, and a canvas area with professional tools for creating paths, lines, curves, shapes, fills, gradients, patterns, text and more.

It also provides accurate geolocation, background web workers, offline web applications, microdata, a local storage engine and many other improvements to standard HTML, such as dozens of new form tags and attributes, as described in the following chapter list:

1. Introduction to HTML
2. The Layout of an HTML Document
3. The HTML Document Body
4. Fonts, Colors & Images
5. Lists & Tables
6. Links, Forms & Frames
7. List of HTML 4.01 Tags
8. An Introduction To HTML5
9. The HTML5 Canvas
10. Fills, Rectangles, Gradients & Patterns
11. Writing Text To The Canvas
12. Lines, Paths & Curves
13. Images, Shadows & Pixels
14. Compositing, Transparency & Transformations
15. HTML5 Geolocation
16. HTML5 Forms
17. HTML5 Local Storage
18. HTML5 Audio
19. HTML5 Video
20. Microdata, Web Workers & Web Applications

Reasons you will learn all you need from this course:

• Each Lecture begins by listing the three key skills you will learn.
• A summary at the end of each lecture reminds you what you have learned.
• Useful, fully-tested examples illustrate every tag, attribute and function.
• Each lecture features several notes providing extra, handy advice.
• The examples can all be downloaded from the companion website.