15 Helpful HTML Books for Beginners Worth Checking

by Scott Stanton on May 20, 2012

HTML Books for beginners

If you want to learn web design and development, the first step that you should do is to study HTML – the markup language used in making the basic building blocks of web pages. To acquire the skill in coding HTML elements, you need not really have to a formal classroom instruction in a reputable IT university. You can learn it by yourself by religiously following instructional materials online such as W3Schools and Tizag.com, or if you want a more detailed and illustrative presentation, by reading HTML books.

Depending on your learning style, you will find either online HTML tutorials to be more convenient or if not, HTML books in paperback. This is actually up to you, so it is best to know where you are comfortable. If you have tried, following the online format and find it hard to digest for some reason, why not try basic HTML education by means of books? Yes, books where you can find illustrations and how-is-it-done examples, in a flip-through-page style as we know it.

Here, we are sharing with you some of the HTML books for beginners that we believe are worthy to be considered if you want to learn the ropes of web design and development. Also, we are including books for HTML5, the latest and more powerful version of HTML, as it is an increasingly popular language that will surely define the future of the web. This is where you should direct most of your focus as HTML5 and CSS3 are the standards of the future. It is worth the time to check out some HTML5 examples and get inspired. One of the latest trends in Web design is the use of media queries to create responsive web site layouts. HTML5 and CSS3 are at the core of this and we have seen it used a lot and successfully in Responsive WordPress Themes.

These books will of course cost you something but it may be a very good investment if you want to have a working knowledge of basic web design and development. If you find any of these books interesting, we encourage you to visit their respective websites to know more about them. They have discussions as to what you will expect from these books should you decide to get yourself a copy. Also, if know of other materials, tools, or anything that can be of use to beginners in making them proficient in HTML, please share your knowledge below in the comments. We will highly appreciate your efforts in helping promising coders uplift their skills.

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The amount of plugins for WordPress has reached a point where it is easy to get confused trying to pick the best ones for your needs. The purpose of this article is to give you useful information about which premium WordPress plugins you should know about and use if you run a WordPress powered website.

WordPress is a free open source CMS that have changed the Internet rules completely within the last decade. In my opinion WordPress is one of the greatest gifts the Internet has seen since we got introduced to Google. WordPress was unveiled in 2003 and it soon started to take website ownership monopoly away from tech-heads and corporations by giving everyday people and small business owners access to create their own beautiful websites.

Today WordPress is used by everyone across the world from bored teens, fan clubs and mommy bloggers to online marketers making a living online. It’s fun, very customizable and easy to use and what makes it even stronger is it’s the open source nature of PHP and MySQL-based CMS. There’s a large amount of free and premium WordPress plugins that extend the functionality of WordPress and provide a wide range of extra features in all kinds of areas like layout features, social media, analytics, newsletter administration, simple site maintenance, SEO and more. It’s actually hard to imagine running a successful WordPress site without using several plugins to make things easy for you. Beside that you also need a good custom WordPress theme or a flexible theme with layout builder to get the look and feel you want on your website.

I hope you like this collection. Please share your thoughts and opinion in the comments section and feel free to suggest new awesome plugins to be applied to this list.

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