HTML 5 & CSS3 Genius Guide

A comprehensive masterclass in becoming an instant expert Making a website is something that just isn’t possible without the aid of HTML. It is the basic framework of the World Wide Web and we rely on CSS to make the styling consistent and easier to manage. In this new volume we off er you the tools you need to become a web design master. Within these pages you will learn the art of responsive design and how it will only serve to make your websites more user friendly, therefore more eff ective. Add pop-up modal boxes, integrate payments and incorporate a plethora of dynamic animations that will add extra pizazz to your designs. Take inspiration from the experts and recreate some of their more ingenious ideas and fi nd out…

1 Web Speech API A TECHNOLOGY IN ITS INFANCY, BUT WITH THE POTENTIAL TO INTRODUCE ENTIRELY NEW MODES OF EXPERIENCE TO THE WEB The Web Speech API is an experimental technology due to its ever-changing specification, which brings voice dictation software to the web. The underlying premise of the API is to provide capacity for both brief input (think commands) as well as continuous input (think classic dictation, allowing for pauses). With a bit of imagination, this feature could begin quite a change in the way that user interfaces are designed on the web. Google and Apple have already been exploring speech to enhance particular aspects of the user experience in their products with ‘Okay Google’ and ‘Hey Siri’. Such facilities on the web will surely bring new and exciting…

How designing for the web is changing THERE’S A LOT TO CONTEMPLATE WHEN DESIGNING FOR THE WEB. IT’S NOT EASY, AND IF YOU’RE READING THIS YOU PROBABLY HAVE A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT Consider that designing for the traditional web of today is still a two-dimensional medium. The audience scrolls up and down, sometimes left and right, on a two-dimensional plane. Your goal is to make those two dimensions convey meaning and order in a way that touches their hearts and minds. You want to give them an experience that is both memorable and meaningful, within the confines of two dimensions. Now consider how you would accomplish the same goal in a three-dimensional medium. There are new factors to consider such as the user’s head angle and…

Chrome Experiments for VR vr.chromeexperiments.com Utilises WebGL and Three.js to create a virtual environment compatible with your smartphone and Google Cardboard What tools are developers using? WE INVESTIGATE SOME OF THE TOOLS AND PLATFORMS DEVELOPERS ARE USING TO BUILD, DISPLAY, AND COLLABORATE ON THEIR WORK Unity 3D Unity is one of the most ubiquitous of tools used today for in the development of VR technology. At its heart it’s a game engine. It has a direct VR mode to preview your work in an HMD, which can really boost productivity by designing for VR almost within a virtual environment. Unity is quickly becoming the default tool for VR development due to its ease of use and the ability it aff ords for quickly making prototype VR applications with it. There’s…

E-Commerce is huge, and everywhere, no retailer from before the time of the web hasn’t either felt its impact or been gobbled up by web-born goliaths that have adopted their business models for the internet era. E-commerce is also hard, sure, you pay for things online all of the time, but the credit card details aren’t going straight from us to the service you’re paying, often a payment gateway service is used somewhere along the line to process your credit card and pass along the information to the retailer that you just made a purchase from. If you’re the owner of a small web store, or just want to take payments for some reason or another on your own website, integrating with one of these payment gateways can be tough…

DOWNLOAD TUTORIAL FILES www.filesilo.co.uk/bks-887 Ever since responsive web design became a thing designers and developers have been looking for better tools to manage imagery across many diff erent clients and viewports. With the advent of the srcset attribute and picture elements, this is now achievable in modern browsers and responsive images are even starting to become possible on mobile devices, with Android 4.4.4 off ering good native support. For aging browsers, Scott Jehl’s picturefill JavaScript polyfill can be used to plaster over the cracks – although network performance will still be an issue. The pinnacle of this new feature set from HTML5 is the picture element, enabling creative teams finite control of how images are presented to their web browser – creative teams are finally able to give art direction…