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HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development

By : Divya Manian
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HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development

By: Divya Manian

Overview of this book

<p>HTML5 Boilerplate is the number one choice for many web developers to get their projects going. It provides a comprehensive set of starting templates to get your developments going, ensuring you don&rsquo;t forget any important elements of a typical web project while also ensuring you are writing quality code and mark up. Learning how to use this framework of page and code templates will allow you to kick-start your projects quickly without losing out on quality.<br /><br />"HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development" will enable you to build new projects effectively with minimal effort. HTML5 Boilerplate allows you to deploy quality websites successfully and quickly while also ensuring robust cross-browser performance. It takes you through the step-by-step process of creating a website and teaches you to take full advantage of the html layouts provided within HTML5 Boilerplate; be it styles, mark up, or code so you can accomplish your goals.<br /><br />This book will guide you through the process of building a music festival website, as an applicable example, using HTML5 Boilerplate. You will install, set up HTML5 Boilerplate and deploy production sites. <br /><br />First, we will look at how to install HTML5 Boilerplate so you can use it repeatedly to jumpstart your projects, then we will look at structuring your website using the base files. We will use Modernizr and feature detection to dynamically serve different styles and scripts based on support of certain features. We will discover how to best configure our server to provide high performance and security for our website. Finally, we employ the Build Tool to combine files, remove comments and make the site ready for production use.<br /><br />"HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development" offers a well-rounded tutorial in expert web development; not just a starting place for web projects. It develops code snippets, links to further resources for and in addition to makes you understand the nuances of HTML5 Boilerplate.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Where to get files


There are three ways to get HTML5 Boilerplate, which are as follows:

  • From the website: The latest stable version of the project is available at html5boilerplate.com.

  • From Initializr: Jonathan Verecchia hosts a more expansive set of modules to choose from at initializr.com. All the modules here are from the stable version that is available on the website.

  • From the Github home page: HTML5 Boilerplate is hosted on Github. The latest files are available from the project's github page at github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate. You are safe to use these files when starting your new project and you are guaranteed to get the latest version of these files when you download from Github.

As you are just getting started with HTML5 Boilerplate, I strongly recommend you to download the files from Github, and even better to do so via Git, so you can easily update them when the master files on Github get updated.

Note

If you are unfamiliar with Git, Roger Dudler maintains a great introduction to get you started at rogerdudler.github.com/git-guide/; if you are new to the concept of version control, there is a good explanation of what it is and why it is useful at hoth.entp.com/output/git_for_designers.html.