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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

Optimizing your images


Every resource you add to your page is an extra request to the server and extra network trip for the browser before it declares the page complete. Network requests are typically the slowest components of a page load. This is especially obvious on mobile devices when surfing websites on 3G or even lower connections. The smaller your files are, the faster they will reach the browser.

If you can avoid using a large image, you are better off not using them.

8-bit PNGs

If you are considering using a GIF format for your images, always use PNG. PNG formats for images are far less heavy and much smaller. Even further, 8-bit PNGs are significantly smaller in size.

If you are using PNGs, you should use PNG-8 with a full alpha channel that gives you compatibility all the way back to IE6. Ensure you verify the final output to ensure they are not too grainy or pixelated.

Tools for image optimization

There are build tools in HTML5 Boilerplate that will optimize images,which we will look...