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This best-selling text, HTML5 & CSS3 Visual QuickStart Guide, 7/e, uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce students to all of today's HTML5 and CSS essentials. They'll learn how to design, structure, and format their website; learn about the new elements and form input types in HTML5; create and use images, links, styles, lists, tables, frames, and forms; and they'll add video, audio, and other multimedia to their site. They'll learn how to add visual effects with CSS3; understand web standards and learn from code examples that reflect today's best practices. Finally, students will test and debug their site, and publish it to the web. Key Features: Learn HTML5 with the completely updated worldwide bestselling guide to HTML. Easy visual approach uses color pictures to guide readers through the features of HTML5 and shows you what to do step by step Concise steps and explanations cover all of HTML and offer extensive coverage of HTML5 and CSS techniques. Expert author team combines Elizabeth Castro's proven learning style with Bruce Hyslop's extensive practical knowledge and HTML5 experience About the Author Bruce Hyslop began developing for the Web in 1997 and focuses on interface technical architecture, development, usability, accessibility, and advocating best practices. He is the author of The HTML Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press, 2010), a thorough discussion and reference of all HTML elements (HTML5 and prior). Bruce also teaches a CSS course at UCLA Extension and occasionally speaks on matters regarding front-end development. Over the years, he has overseen front-end teams or been a developer for more than 150 projects, including those for ABC, BBC, Disney, Logitech, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Nokia, Target, Toyota, and Yahoo!, among others. Bruce is an independent developer and consultant to agencies, start-ups, and others, previously having spent a decade in the digital agency world. Formerly, he was the senior director of the Interface Engineering Group (IEG) at Schematic, where he oversaw company-wide efforts to define and implement best practices regarding HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and accessibility wherever they may be applied: the browser, desktop, mobile devices, and emerging platforms. Bruce was an early adopter of Web standards. At a previous agency in the early 2000s, he lead companies such as Baskin-Robbins and Pacific Gas & Electric into the fray of modern client-side practices while managing development between offices in Los Angeles, China, and New York.