• Title:Learn to Code HTML and CSS: Develop and Style Websites
• Author(s) Shay Howe
• Publisher: Adams Media; 1st edition (May 12, 2014); eBook (Online Version of the Book)
• Permission: Link to the Online Version of the Book
• Paperback: 304 pages
• eBook: HTML
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321940520
• ISBN-13: 978-0321940520
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Book Description

This book is a simple and comprehensive guide dedicated to helping beginners learn HTML and CSS. Outlining the fundamentals, this guide works through all common elements of front-end design and development.

HTML and CSS can be a little daunting at first but fear not. This book, based on Shay Howe's popular workshop covers the basics and breaks down the barrier to entry, showing readers how they can start using HTML and CSS through practical techniques today. They'll find accompanying code examples online, while they explore topics such as the different structures of HTML and CSS, and common terms.

After establishing a basic understanding of HTML and CSS a deeper dive is taken into the box model and how to work with floats. The book includes an exercise focused on cleaning up a web page by improving the user interface and design, solely using HTML and CSS. With a few quick changes the web page changes shape and comes to life. Interactive, technically up-to-the-minute and easy-to-understand, this book will advance a student's skills to a professional level.

• As a designer and front end developer, Shay Howe specializes in product design and interface development. Shay has designed front end architectures for a variety of clients including Groupon, The Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Belly, lightbank, and others.

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• HTML, HTML5, XHTML and DHTML
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• JavaScript (jQuery, Node.js, etc.)
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