HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Training: Platform-Independent Web Development

HTML5 empowers you to enhance the User Experience (UX) across all devices — from legacy desktop browsers to the latest smartphones and tablets. In this HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript training course, you will gain the skills to apply best practices for HTML markup, CSS styling, and JavaScript programming, upgrade web applications and improve site performance, accessibility, and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript Delivery Methods

• In-Person

• Online

HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript Course Benefits

• Leverage HTML5 to create modern, feature-rich sites

• Improve SEO/a11y with semantic elements and microdata

• Design professional, eye-catching presentations with CSS3

• Program rich internet applications with JavaScript APIs

• Enhance the user experience with drag-and-drop, Canvas, and SVG graphics, audio, and video

• Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching

HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript Course Outline

Important Course Information

Prerequisites

JavaScript experience is required

Module 1: Advancing Web Standards

• Testing HTML5 with BrowserStack
• Supporting legacy browsers with regressive enhancement

Module 2: Improving Usability, Accessibility and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Enhancing markup with new semantics

• Upgrading pages to HTML5
• Sectioning content with structural elements
• Optimising page rank with microdata

Helping users with form completion

• Guiding input with autofocus and placeholder
• Validating data entry without scripting
• Preventing errors with constraints and pickers
• Customising error messages with the Constraint API

Module 3: Enriching Site Design with CSS3

Manipulating borders and backgrounds

• Vendor prefixes
• Rounded corners
• Resizable border images

Creating elaborate effects

• Floating text and boxes with shadows and opacity
• Animating transformations and transitions
• Customising animations with @keyframes

Customising appearance across browsers

• Installing downloadable fonts with @font–face
• Hiding values in custom data–* attributes
• Adapting mobile layout with media queries
• Saving bandwidth with responsive images

Module 4: Providing Relevant Content with AppCache, JavaScript and Geolocation

Enabling users to work offline

• Defining an application cache manifest
• Addressing caching caveats
• Comparing AppCache to Service Workers

Programming the geolocation API in JavaScript

• Estimating user latitude and longitude
• Selecting content by proximity

Module 5: Programming HTML5 Applications

Applying modern JavaScript best practices

• Leveraging anonymous functions
• Simplifying JavaScript development with jQuery

Persisting data with the Web Storage API

• Saving name/value pairs in localStorage
• Storing Complex data in JSON format

Enhancing forms with rich text and JavaScript

• Testing and supporting features with Modernizr
• Simplifying content formatting with WYSIWYG editors

Manipulating files with drag–and–drop

• Handling events on draggable and drop targets
• Enabling drag–and–drop file upload with HTML5 programming interfaces

Exchanging message data with JavaScript APIs

• Posting messages across windows
• Accessing external providers with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and XMLHttpRequest 2
• Pushing data with WebSockets
• Improving responsiveness with Web Workers

Module 6: Drawing Dynamic Images

Filling the Canvas element

• Eliminating plugin dependencies with native graphics
• Charting with lines and rectangles
• Rendering text and embedding images

Reducing page size with SVG

• Creating graphics with a text editor
• Substituting vector images for larger PNG files

Module 7: Engaging Users with Multimedia Features

Enhancing a site with sound

• Embedding audio in a web page without plugins
• Entertaining users with natively-supported video
• Captioning video with Web Video Text Tracks (WebVTT)