In previous post, I’ve highlighted the potential of HTML5 and why all web designers must start to leverage on this latest version of hypertext markup language. Again, I’d like to reiterate that it is imperative for web developers to learn and deploy HTML5 in designing web.

Here are some of the best resources which I’ve personally used to explore and dig into HTML5. Well, you might say I’m conservative but traditionally, I’d like to start learning such topics via … books :

The above are some books which I’ve read. I’d particularly like to highlight the book entitled “The Web Designer’s Guide to iOS Apps: Create iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps with Web Standards (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript)”. This book kills two birds with one stone – you can learn HTML5 and how it can be integrated into mobile apps development (the native iOS iPhone/iPad way). Frankly, the reason why I’m looking hard at HTML5 now is because I want to design web that is mobile devices friendly as well. Mobile apps development is another area I’m focusing currently and I’ll definitely share more on this topic in Designing Web.

Another good HTML5 book is none other than “HTML5 – 24 Hour Trainer”. Yeap, learning HTML5 in 24-hour … just one thing, don’t be mislead by the title of this book. You can’t learn a new language in 24-hour. Nevertheless, this is an excellent book on HTML5 that you must lay your hands on.

These online resources are also indispensable :

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/default.asp (the cannot be missed resource)
http://diveintohtml5.org/ (very book styled)
http://html5demos.com/ (learn by examples)
http://www.thehtml5tutorials.com/ (another learning by examples)

Here’s another trick to expedite and turbo your learning of HTML5 … look out for “HTML5 templates” or “HTML5 wordpress templates” and you’ll see how you can be a solid HTML5 developer in no time. Happy learning.

HTML5 is re-designing web. Originally created in the 90s, HTML (HyperText Markup Language) has come a long way to its standardization as HTML4 in 1997. Time flies and now we have HTML5 – the next generation of HTML.

Although HTML5 is still in its early infancy, or rather, still work in progress, the good news is that most modern browsers in their latest version like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari (many more of course) are already HTML5 compatible or have some forms of HTML5 support.

Why the fuss and hype about HTML5? Well, I got one clear definitive answer why every web designer/developer, blogger and anyone who want to have a web presence must adopt, or at least to look at, HTML5. It’s “mobile compatible” too!

Let me eloborate what I meant saying HTML5 is mobile compatible. If you head over to one of my blogs – EcoCityZone.NET, you’ll see a cool QR-code ready mobile version of the portal. Go ahead and open up EcoCityZone.NET/app on your mobile device. It doesn’t matter if you’re holding the popular iPhone, an Android smartphone or even a Blackberry, chances are, you’ll be able to view the “app” on your mobile device’s browser which no issue. In fact, the “app” will appears the same on all the smartphones. It’s cross-platform … thanks to HTML5.

Yes, the “app” is just a mobile-optimized web version of the blog that is specifically designed to be displayed on small screen size of a smartphone.
Did you see the power of HTML5 now?? One stone killing 2 birds. In this case, a carefully designed blog or website developed with HTML5 will works well and looks good on desktop monitors, smartphones and even tablets like the iPad. Combined with CSS3 and JavaScript, you can even allows auto-detection of the screen size and the appropriate version of the blog/site will display itself optimally on the display devices.

One interesting fact about HTML5 is that its standard will not be finalized until 2022. No need to rub your eyes and there’s no typo error, the year is 2022. That’s still a long way from now, you might shouted. Nah nah. You don’t need to wait until every to settle to start leveraging on the power. Why follow the trend while you can ride on the first wave of the trend now. You should have started to learn HTML5 yesterday! Kidding, it’s never too late. And you’ll not regret to learn this gem.

I’ll be putting up more posts regarding HTML5 here in Designing Web and share with you the best ways to learn and “conquer” it. Stay tuned.

Okay, I give up to self-proclaim I am a HTML expert … there are surely more people out there who are serious and hard-core HTML expert. Only HTML geek will have this kindda tattoo …