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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

Creating the styles


Now that we have the markup ready, let us look at how we should be styling it. HTML5 Boilerplate comes with a stylesheet that has the best default styles. If you open main.css, you will find the following section in between the Chrome Frame prompt style rules and the Helper classes section:

This is where we will compose our style rules. Later on, we will look at how you can use some of the style frameworks to make writing this easier with Sass (http://sass-lang.com) or Less (http://lesscss.org/).

Without even writing a line of CSS, you will note that our page looks like the website displayed in the following screenshot:

This default style is thanks to the normalize style rules that are available in HTML5 Boilerplate.

Why not reset.css?

For a very long time, the recommendation was to use reset.css , which is available at html5doctor.com/html-5-reset-stylesheet/ and resets the margin and padding of every available element to 0, in addition to making the font size of all headings...