Books on HTML5 in 24 Hours

HTML for RWD—Learn the HTML You Need in a Free Chapter

Mon, 11 May 2015 16:09:24 +0000

from: Sams Teach Yourself Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 in 24 Hours

While responsive web design uses CSS to adjust web designs to respond to the devices viewing the page, you need to start with good HTML. Chapter 5 of my latest book Sams Teach Yourself Responsive Web Design in 24 Hours helps you learn the basics of HTML so that you’re ready to create a responsive website.

In chapter 5, you will learn:

How to write HTML for RWD
How to build a basic web page with HTML5
What semantic elements are and how to use them
Why valid HTML is important

And this chapter is available for free on the Informit website.

Note that if you’re a complete novice to HTML, this chapter will only be a starting place. It’s intended as an introduction to the minimum HTML you might need to do RWD. If you need to learn HTML, you should check out my first Sams book: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 in 24 Hours (get a copy).

Starting on my Next Book

Thu, 15 Jan 2015 01:17:22 +0000

I’ve finished 25% of my latest book Sams Teach Yourself Bootstrap in 24 Hours. This has proven to be very fun to write. Bootstrap, if you’re not familiar with it, is a web design framework to help you build web pages that have a consistent design and look and feel. It includes things like a grid system and powerful CSS styles; components like icons and navigation; and a bunch of JavaScript plugins to make building dynamic web pages that much easier.

Some of the things I love about Bootstrap include:

It is responsive by default. So everything you learned in my last book Sams Teach Yourself Responsive Web Design in 24 Hours is still useful, but you can implement it more quickly with Bootstrap.
The grid system is very easy to use. And it’s easy to create multiple grids for different device sizes.
Bootstrap creates a good looking typography and color iconography framework for your website. You don’t have to worry about how your text will look. And if you need to show information like warnings or success states visually, Bootstrap has you covered.

And there is so much more too Bootstrap than those features. I hope you’ll be willing to join me on this adventure with a great framework.

Comments:

Petro Rautenbach - Jan 4, 2015

Hi. I live in South Africa and our postal service is very unreliable. Will you be publishing your books in e- format soon?

Jennifer Kyrnin - Jan 5, 2015

The book is available in Kindle format from Amazon, epub from Barnes and Noble, and PDF and other formats from InformIT http://www.informit.com/store/responsive-web-design-in-24-hours-sams-teach-yourself-9780672338380 as well as in other formats listed on my “How to Order” page. If you aren’t seeing it available from your favorite ebook distributor, please let me know and I’ll ask my publisher to look into it.

HTML5 Learning Lab Available

Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:22:18 +0000

HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours Learning Lab

I’m pleased to announce that the latest version of my book Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours is available in a Learning Lab format from Pearson.

The Learning Lab takes the entire book and adds interactive quizzes, videos, step-by-step lessons, and live code editing right in the book. If you’ve wanted to do more practice while learning HTML5, this is an excellent version of the book to get.

Three Free Chapters

The first three chapters are available online for free for you to try out and see if this version will work for you.

I worked hard on these videos and on the quizzes as well as writing the entire body of text, so I hope that you enjoy the HTML5 Learning Lab.

Sorry for the delay — I didn't forget the giveaway

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:34:25 +0000

Life just got the better of me for a while there. I’m happy to say that I’m nearly caught up. Now that school has started I might have a little more time. :-) But you don’t care about that, you want to know who won!

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The following people won a copy of the book Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 on Demand:

Leigh C-M
Janet
Sunday ayodele
Lisa Vincent
Karen

and…

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The following people won a copy of the book Adobe Muse on Demand:

Aggrey
Yussuf Olawale Afeez
Sudheer Marath
Kenny SILVA
Deb Tilton

I’ll be contacting you directly to get your mailing address and get it off to my editor. If you don’t hear from me within 10 hours, please contact me directly.

Comments:

Sunday Ayodele - Sep 5, 2012

I am so much thank Mrs Jennifer Kyrnin for her faithfulness to the said giveaway in which i am fortunate to be one of the winners.Enormous vote of thanks to you.

Sudheer Marath - Jul 1, 2013

I am so much thankful to Mrs Jennifer Kyrnin for her faithfulness to the said giveaway in which i am fortunate to be one of the winners.Enormous vote of thanks to you.

Sudheer Marath - Jul 3, 2013

Please send my book to the following mailing address below: Sudheer Marath Adityabirla Minacs, 3rd Floor, Millennium Towers, ITPL Road, Bangalore - 560 037, India Mobile: +91 89046 52459

Slashdot review

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:42:27 +0000

I was very pleased to see this review on Slashdot yesterday. Michael J. Ross did a great job finding the problems and explaining what the book is about. He even commented on some things that I found annoying, and I wrote the book! :-) But of course, my favorite part is the last paragraph:

“Despite the aforementioned blemishes, this book is definitely worth a look, because it is currently one of the most complete tutorials for learning how to use HTML5 for creating mobile apps and web sites.”

I have already addressed some of his concerns, such as getting the code samples and errata linked from the site navigation (oops!). And I’ll be making notes of the errors he found to correct for a future printing.

The Book is Here!

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:20:20 +0000

The Book is Here! Do you have your copy yet?

I got back from my vacation and the box was on my porch. Happy Birthday to me!

Comments:

Will - Jan 3, 2017

I have the book, Sams Teach Yourself HTML, CSS and JavaScript Web Publishing (7th edition). I registered the book but found NO SOURCE CODE on web. I wrote to the publisher, and replied there was no source code. Can you help me how to locate!

Jennifer Kyrnin - Feb 3, 2017

The source code is hosted on this website here

Will - Feb 6, 2017

No, sorry. It is not that book. The book I have is “Sams Teach Yourself HTML, CSS and JavaScript Web Publishing (7th edition). Your site is for the book “Teach Yourself HTML5 in 24 hours” it is different!!!

Jennifer Kyrnin - May 6, 2017

Sorry. I don’t have the code samples for that book - you need to get them from InformIT. If they don’t have them, then they probably never were created beyond what is in the book files themselves.

The Galleys are Here—The Book is Nearly Ready!

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:54:21 +0000

I am now working on reading through the book again in paper format. I’m pleased to say that so far, it looks great! This is the exciting part as it means that the book is nearly ready and will soon be in your hands. It is available for pre-order from Amazon.com right now. And don’t worry, if you want to read it on your Kindle or as an eBook it you will be able to get it in that format as well.

Seeing the galleys is a great feeling as it means that all my hard work is nearly ready for you to see. I hope you like it and find it useful.

Save 35% off HTML5 for Mobile Web Applications

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:51:14 +0000

There is a new resource center on Informit.com to help you learn about HTML5: Informit.com/html5. This page includes articles, chapter excerpts, and books to help you learn HTML5. My book is there, as well as a bunch of other great titles. Use the coupon code HTML52011 to get 35% of all book titles that you purchase from that site. The book will be available soon. I’m excited. I hope you are too!

Who is the HTML5 in 24 Hours Book for?

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:19:40 +0000

I’ve been working on editing the proof copies of the book for the last several weeks and one thing that keeps popping to mind is the audience. I wrote the book intending it for a beginner audience, but I should clarify this. When I say that it’s for beginners, I mean beginners to mobile and web application development, not beginners to HTML.

I wrote the book to teach people who already have some knowledge of HTML and web development how to use HTML5 to create mobile web applications. The book is not intended to teach someone who has never built a web page before how to write HTML. There are lots of books available that you can use to learn HTML. These are some of my favorites:

I hope that designers and developers interested in learning how to build mobile web applications will find my book useful. And if you’re still learning HTML, there’s always my site on About.com to help you get started. I have tons of resources there to help beginners learn HTML and web design.

Dive Into HTML5 is Back

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:02:53 +0000

You may have noticed that one of the best websites for learning HTML5 suddenly went dark a little while ago. Apparently the author, Mark Pilgrim, decided to exit the internet and took all his writing with him. And this meant that he marked the site Dive into HTML5 as 401-Gone. I was disappointed both because it removed a valuable resource and because I loved his “The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything” Which made it easy to quickly detect whatever HTML5 thing I wanted to detect, without having to memorize it myself. I wasn’t terribly upset, as I bought a copy of the book version, HTML5 Up and Running in eBook format long before I even knew of the website. But it was still a loss for anyone else wanting to learn HTML5.

So when some html5homies put it back up at http://diveintohtml5.info/ I was very happy. This is very good news. And what’s even better is that they are going to continue to add to it to keep it up-to-date and accurate.

Starting to get the code samples up

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:58:56 +0000

I’m starting to get the code samples and figures up on the site. I’ll be adding links to them in the Table of Contents so that you can see them in the context of their chapters. I’m also adding links to the figures in the book, in full color. And eventually all the examples will be linked as well. As we all know, doing the maintenance of a website is the tedious part. ☺ Which means that I tend to be slow about it. But I’ll be posting these as fast as I can. And as always, you can see all of code, figures, and examples in the book itself, right now on Safari Rough Cuts.

Comments:

Sean Leiba - Jul 5, 2016

Hi Jennifer can you direct me to where I can see the examples, view and download the source code for Responsive Web Design in 24 Hours. Thanks

Jennifer Kyrnin - Aug 3, 2016

Hi Sean, All the files are located on this site here: https://www.html5in24hours.com/books/rwd-book/ Note: the examples aren’t currently online and the source code is copy paste, not available by download.

Available for Preorder

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 04:44:59 +0000

I’m pleased to let you know that the book is now available for pre-order on Amazon: Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours. Plus the Safari Rough Cuts version has all the chapters now. And if you buy the Rough Cuts version, I’m told you’ll be automatically converted to the final version when that is posted on Safari.

Right now, I’m working on editing the proofs, which is a hard part of the book writing process. It’s especially hard because something in the transfer process munged some of my chapter sub-heads. So I’m going through each chapter with a fine-toothed comb. Slow going.

After that’s done, I’ll be working on the videos for the extended eBook edition. I’m having a lot of fun with this.

First 20 Chapters Available for Reading

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:17:51 +0000

You can now get the first 20 chapters on Safari Rough cuts! Here is a preview link.

Feel free to subscribe, add comments to the book, and let me know what you think.

Nearly half way!

Wed, 18 May 2011 21:44:37 +0000

I just posted Hour 11 to my editors last night. Today I start working on either video/audio or forms. I can’t decide which I want to tackle first. Hopefully soon I’ll have some information on the Safari Rough Cuts version of the chapters. So that anyone who wants to see them early can sign up.

Working on the book, but I need your help

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:58:02 +0000

I’ve submitted four chapters to the publisher for review and editing. 1/6th down! Yay!

I also took the time to update the Table of Contents.

One of the parts of each chapter that I struggle with is the Q&A section at the end. I would love it if you could look over the contents and if you have questions, please let me know. The more actual reader questions I can answer the better the book will be.

How about this table of contents?

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:41:22 +0000

I’ve uploaded the book’s table of contents. It’s still being written, so it may change.

I would love your feedback. What do you think of the topics I’m going to cover? Is there something about HTML5 that I don’t appear to be covering from that list? Let me know in the comments either here or on the TOC page itself. Thanks!

Welcome to my new blog about HTML5

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:11:34 +0000

I am excited to start working on this blog about HTML5. In it I’ll provide sample sites written in HTML5, links to tutorials on other sites, references that I use to learn HTML5 and lots more. I hope you enjoy learning about HTML5 as much as I enjoy writing about it.