I remember when it was impressive to just have a website. Now it’s not enough to just have a site — you need to have an awesome one to be noticed. In fact, it’s almost worse to have a bad website than none at all, so it’s definitely worth your while to learn how to put together a great one. Sally Cox’s newly released course HTML5 for Beginners: Learn by Video (produced in partnership with our friends at Peachpit Press) is a great resource to help you do just that. By the end of the course you’ll have a solid understanding of HTML5 and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) concepts, how to build a wireframe and add text and images, and how to work with interactive forms and multimedia. The final product is your own blog site built from scratch.
Speaking of websites, isn’t it frustrating when you can’t figure out what a web form field is asking you for? Or when you keep getting it bounced back to you because even though you provided the right information, it was in the wrong format? When that happens to me, I often just give up altogether and move on to another site — which is not what you want for your own projects. In this free lesson Sally teaches you how to avoid this problem by using a new HTML5 form field called an Input Element to add a text hint as an attribute to your forms. That way users can see sample text or instructions in your text input fields that will disappear automatically when anything is typed into the field. So helpful! Take a look and see how easy it is to create.
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