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Starting with HTML5

In Books, HTML on 9 April 2011 tagged Andy Clarke, Book, Bruce Lawson, Dive Into HTML5, Hardboiled Web Design, HTML5, HTML5 For Web Designers, Jeremy Keith, Mark Pilgrim, Remy Sharp with no comments

What do you need to get started learning and using HTML5 for your projects ?

Weblogs
Browse around HTML5 Doctor or the Think Vitamin blog.

Books
A good start would be reading Mark Pilgrims’s free and comprehensive “Dive into HTML5”. The text is also available in book form.

I highly recommend you read HTML For Web Designers by Jeremy Keith published by A Book Apart. Check out episode #2 of The Big Web Show where Jeremy Keith was interviewed by Dan Benjamin and Jeffrey Zeldman about HTML5.

If that is not enough get your hands on Introducing HTML 5 by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp.

Not exactly a book about HTML5, but Andy Clarke’s recent book “Hardboiled Web Design” (take a look at the companion website) includes a chapter about HTML5. It’s mostly about the new semantic tags like section, article, aside, header, hgroup and footer. As I’ve mentioned in my private tweets Hardboiled Web Design is definitely a book that needs to be on you bookshelf (or your preferred iOS device). I found it an inspiring book and one that makes it obvious that you can and should get started with HTML5 (and CSS3) now. Not later.

Video
If reading is not your thing Ontwik’s vast collection of [curated] videos is the place to go. Watch the videos tagged with “HTML5”. There is currently 17 videos in the HTML5 category.

Sign up for a Think Vitamin Membership.

Links
Check out my HTML5 links on Delicious.

Help me get rich
Please note that the links to books are referral links that point at Amazon.co.uk meaning if you end up buying one I’ll get a referral fee.

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