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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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30+ Great jQuery Calendar and Date Pickers Plugins

by Dustin Betonio on April 15, 2012

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With jQuery Calendar and Date Pickers it is quite simple to add cool calendar features to nearly any website. jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig. Used by over 41% of the 10,000 most visited websites, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. I believe that jQuery is the best JavaScript library because it’s easy to use, flexible and has a lot of tutorials and plugins allowing you to integrate nearly any front end function into your site. Implementing a calendar in the web application is also made easy when using jQuery event calender and date picker plugins. Event calendars and date pickers are really useful for web applications and is a good way to communicate any kind of event relevant to the site or business publishing it. jQuery is also useful in many other areas and in particular jQuery carousel plugins can give a website a facelift. For this article I have found 30 useful jquery Calendar and jquery datepicker plugins web designers, freelancers and bloggers should be aware of. Another very popular type of jQuery scripts are jQuery Slider Plugins.

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CODE Tips #2: Optimize and Compress Your CSS To Improve Load Time

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25+ jQuery Drag and Drop Plugins

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40+ Useful HTML5 Examples and Tutorials

March 30, 2012

HTML5 examples can be really good inspiration for anyone starting a new web project, after all it is the future of web page markup and we all need to prepare for it. HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML (HyperText Markup Language). The major market and Internet leaders are already switching [...]

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CODE Tips #1: How to Create Fixed Navigation

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85+ Cool jQuery Effects Roundup

March 25, 2012

jQuery effects are used more or less all over the Internet today. Just a few years ago Flash was dominating the scene for interactive and dynamic websites. The arrival of JavaScript libraries like jQuery have made it a lot easier to do advanced stuff with JavaScript, but of course the fact that Apple didn’t let [...]

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20 Cool jQuery Text Effects

March 25, 2012

With jQuery text effects you can do really cool and dynamic stuff on your web pages. However keep in mind that text effects in web design is far away from the popularity we saw in the early days of the Internet and in some cases can be best used as funny JavaScript effects. Back then [...]

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85 Awesome jQuery Slider Plugins

March 22, 2012

A jQuery slider or jQuery carousel can be very useful to feature important content on nearly any web site. The jQuery library has undoubtedly made the life of JavaScript programmers easier and made it possible for non-experts to do fancy stuff themselves. With jQuery, we can do a lot of really advanced and dynamic things [...]

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35+ Useful jQuery Menu Plugins

March 19, 2012

With a jQuery menu plugin your site visitors may have the best and most dynamic navigation available. jQuery is a lightweight, cross-browser compliant, incredibly awesome and extremely powerful JavaScript framework (library) that emphasizes and simplifies interaction between JavaScript, CSS and HTML. With jQuery, you can change the look and feel of your website into something [...]

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