HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide (7th Edition)
Want to learn how to build Web sites fast? This best-selling guide’s visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with HTML5 and CSS3 in no time. This Seventh Edition is a major revision, with approximately 125 pages added and substantial updates to (or complete rewrites of) nearly every page from the preceding edition. Authors Elizabeth Castro and Bruce Hyslop use clear instructions, friendly prose, and real-world code samples to teach you HTML and CSS
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Not the best book to learn bout HTML5,
This “quick guide” is actually a heavy 550 page brick, which covers stuff not even related directly to HTML5, e.g. how to size images in Fireworks and Photoshop, how to do FTP file transfer with FileZilla program and how to “Secure a domain name and publish your site”.
Also it contains a lot of trivial stuff such as creating a link to another web page, making text bold, starting a new paragraph with P tag, or creating external style sheets file. Old school HTML4 and CSS2 topics cover about half of this brick. Yet, authors were unable to find any space in this book for many new HTML5-specific topics such as most HTML5 APIs, which are parts of HTML5 specification, e.g. Canvas, Web Sockets, Microdata, Web Messaging, Web Workers, HTML5+RDFa, etc.
Also there is no coverage for the new HTML5 syntax rules, no HTML5/CSS3 browser compatibility info, and no list of new tags.
The book does include new HTML5 markup coverage but this is not enough to claim that HTML5 is the main focus and you will “Learn HTML5 the quick and easy way” (back cover). It seems that instead of re-writing this book from scratch, authors just merged the old CSS QuickStart Guide 5th edition with HTML QuickStart Guide 6th edition providing some facelift updates. The very old Windows XP screenshots look odd in this brand new 2012 “HTML5 book”.
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|Semi-OK book for learning a little bit about HTML5 and CSS3,
OVERALL:
It’s a decent book for learning a little bit about HTML5 and CSS3. I say decent meaning it’s not great but it’s not terrible. If you’re absolutely brand new to web development, there’s plenty enough in there to give you a “quickstart”, but not near enough information for you to perfect the languages. However, if you’re experienced in development, this book will practically bore you to tears with the absolute basics of HTML and CSS markup. By the time you actually get to HTML5 and CSS3, you realize there’s not a whole lot of depth about either iteration of the language in there, and you’re ready to take a nap!
WHAT THIS BOOK IS:
It’s a learning manual. My understanding is that this series of books is used by some colleges and tech schools as course textbooks, and it shoes. There is a lot of markup (programming code) in the book, with screenshots showing what it looks like in the web browser. It doesn’t go into a lot of detail about either HTML5 or CSS3 – it scratches the surface of both and leaves you wanting to learn more. One plus about the book is that it briefly covers development for mobile devices, though there are better books out there for that, such as HTML5 Mobile Websites: Turbocharging HTML5 with jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, and Other Frameworks. If you’re new to web development and want to learn more, this is a good book for you.
WHAT THIS BOOK IS NOT:
It’s not a reference manual. A reference manual would cover everything there is to know about HTML5 and CSS3. This book doesn’t do that. To be honest, there are features of both that I was already using before reading this book, and those features aren’t even mentioned in the book. It’s not a book that someone with a decent amount of web development experience is going to find highly usable – most of what you already know is in the book, and not a whole lot of what you want to know is in the book.
UPDATE:
Going back through the book again, I’ve reconsidered my 3-star review. It’s more like a 2 star. Honestly, it’s nothing more than maybe an introduction to basic HTML and CSS with a little bit of HTML5 and CSS3, but definitely not a book that anyone with more than basic experience wants to consider. There are much better resources out there for both HTML5 and CSS3, and if you’re just learning to code for the web, I’d be fearful that this book is going to “quickstart” you in the wrong direction. Visual Quickstart has had many good books – this is not one of them.
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|disappointing,
What happened? Did Bruce Hyslop take Castro’s text and try to update it for HTML5? If so, he failed. Bring back Elizabeth! The publisher did not do well to allow such a downgrade in what was once a great book that I used to recommend to my students. No more.
Perhaps the publisher will update and fix this volume. I hope so.
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