Advanced CSS3 and HTML5

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Advanced CSS3 and HTML5

You’ve heard the buzz about CSS3 and HTML5? These latest versions of HTML and CSS have redefined how web pages are created. So if you’re going to design web pages, you need to know how to work with CSS3 and HTML5.

This course will teach you how HTML5 makes page design far more intuitive, faster, and easier compared to older versions of HTML. And you’ll learn to wield new CSS3 features essential for fast-loading, exciting, interactive websites, especially mobile sites. In short, you’ll leave this course with valuable skills essential to creating modern websites.

  • Learn how to take advantage of HTML5 “semantic” tags
  • Learn to use HTML5 to create basic mobile pages and apps
  • Discover how to use HTML5 to provide video that works in any environment
  • Learn how to create inviting forms that test user data without back-end coding
  • Create complex gradient blend backgrounds for pages and page elements, without using image files
  • Learn to use jQuery Mobile to create app-like mobile web pages and themes
  • Self-paced online course
  • 6-12 weeks to complete
  • 24 course hours
  • Gain valuable skills essential to creating modern websites
  • Master the latest technologies in web development
  • Open the door to more opportunities as a professional web and mobile developer

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COURSE CONTENT

ELEMENTS OF AN ADVANCED WEBSITE

In this first lesson, you’ll survey how great websites attract visitors and make content inviting and accessible. You’ll find out how effective websites gather valuable information about who’s visiting the site, and you’ll learn how sites attract and retain mobile users.

BUILDING A BASIC WEB PAGE WITH HTML5 AND CSS3

This lesson is a compressed, intense survey of the basic techniques involved in building modern web pages with HTML5 and CSS3. You’ll examine, deconstruct, and customize an HTML page and a style sheet.

TESTING AND UPLOADING YOUR SITE

This lesson balances art and technology. You’ll start by defining and applying a color scheme to your site. You’ll then test the HTML and CSS code for errors and check links and spelling. After that, you’ll be ready to upload your site to a remote host.

IMPROVING YOUR SITE DESIGN WITH GRADIENT BACKGROUNDS AND CUSTOM FONTS

In this lesson, you’ll explore two techniques for creating inviting websites: CSS3 gradient backgrounds and web fonts. Both of these help you create an engaging and distinctive look for your site. Most important, new CSS3-based techniques allow you to implement these features in a way that doesn’t affect download time!

EMBEDDING NATIVE VIDEO

“Native video” plays in a browser without any plugins. HTML5 marked the emergence of native video, and all current-generation browsers support it. In this lesson, you’ll learn what its advantages are and how to present it in formats that are accessible to the greatest possible range of users.

BUILDING FORMS

Collecting data through forms is one of the most valuable and underrated elements of advanced web design. In this lesson, you’ll learn to build basic forms, so visitors can sign up for your email list.

ENHANCING FORMS AND COLLECTING FORM DATA

In this lesson, you’ll explore some remarkable new features in HTML5 that make it easier and more inviting for people to fill out forms. You’ll also look at how server-side scripts manage form data.

STRUCTURING PAGES WITH HTML5 SEMANTIC MARKUP

HTML5 semantic elements are a radically new and better way to structure web page content. In this lesson, you’ll learn to apply them.

ADVANCED RESPONSIVE DESIGN

How do the needs of smartphone and tablet users differ from the needs of laptop and desktop users? In this lesson, you’ll build on basic fluid design techniques by adding media queries that allow you to design a completely distinct look and feel for different-sized browsing environments.

BUILDING SLIDE SHOWS WITH JQUERY, HTML, AND CSS

Slide shows are one of the most widely used elements of attractive, inviting web pages. In this lesson, you’ll download a jQuery slide show widget and then customize its HTML and CSS code to integrate it into a website.

CREATING WEB APPS WITH JQUERY MOBILE

You’ve learned about jQuery, but what about jQuery Mobile? In this lesson, you’ll use it as you create app-like mobile web pages. You’ll also integrate them into a site and learn how to build sites that work well in any environment.

CUSTOMIZING JQUERY MOBILE THEMES

It’s time to give your mobile site some style. ThemeRoller for jQuery Mobile generates custom CSS for jQuery Mobile sites. With ThemeRoller, you can define global styling elements like fonts and color swatches that you can apply throughout a mobile site.