Jonathan Lane - Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

Jonathan Lane, Tom Barker, Joseph R. Lewis, and Meitar Moscovitz

Foundation Website Creation with HTML5, CSS 3, and JavaScript

Copyright 2012 by Jonathan Lane, Tom Barker, Joseph R. Lewis, and Meitar Moscovitz

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ISBN-13 (electronic): 978-1-4302-3790-7

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Credits

President and Publisher: Paul Manning

Lead Editor: Ben Renow-Clarke

Technical Reviewers: Heather Wallace

Editorial Board: Steve Anglin, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell,
Louise Corrigan, Morgan Ertel, Jonathan Gennick,
Jonathan Hassell, Robert Hutchinson, Michelle Lowman,
James Markham, Matthew Moodie, Jeff Olson, Jeffrey
Pepper, Douglas Pundick,
Ben Renow-Clarke, Dominic Shakeshaft,
Gwenan Spearing, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh

Coordinating Editor: Debra Kelly

Copy Editor: Patrick Meader

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Artist: SPi Global

Cover Image Artist: Corn van Dooren

Cover Designer: Anna Ishchenko

For my beautiful Rachel.
You are amazing in so many ways, and I absolutely adore you.
Jonathan Lane

For my beautiful Rabbit.
Tom Barker

To my beautiful wife, whom I love beyond measure.
Joseph R. Lewis

For Aba, whom most of my work on this book is really for.

Hopefully youll now feel comfortable using your editors Source view.
Meitar Moscovitz

Contents at a Glance

Contents

About the Author

Jonathan Lane works for Harvest ( GetHarvest.com ) and is the sole employee of Industry Interactive, Inc. He does design and development for a range of clients in Canada and the US, and he produces a few of his own side-projects (like Mailmanagr www.mailmanagr.com ). Jonathan has been working with the Web for more than a decade now in varying capacities.

Jonathan is married and has three kids, Reilly, Parker, and Serenity, which pretty much occupies all of his nonworking time.

Tom Barker has been a software engineer since the late 90s, focusing on the full stack of web development. Currently he is the Senior Manager of Web Development at Comcast, an Adjunct Professor at Philadelphia University, a husband, a father, an amateur power lifter, and an armchair philosopher. On his team at Comcast are the craftsmen that create and maintain xfinity.com, and xfinitytv.com. At Philadelphia University, he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP, and MySQL. He is obsessed with elegant software solutions, continual improvement, refining process, data analysis and visualization.

Joseph R. Lewis is the Chief Web Architect at Sandia National Laboratories, where his activities include research, development, and instruction of semantic web, social media, and mobile technologies for scientific collaboration and national security applications.

Prior to the computer science career, Joe was a professional classical musician with a masters degree in performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, and he still plays and teaches the double bass when he can.

Born and raised in New York City, Meitar Moscovitz first touched a computer when he was an infant in 1986 (an Apple Macintosh Plus). At his fathers prompting, he created his first website at the age of 12 and through it created the first online community for teenagers and young adults with bipolar disorder. Out of school by 16, he officially joined the workforce as a junior network administrator; and at 18, he started freelancing full time as a web developer. After brief excursions into corporate IT with such companies as Apple and Opsware (now HP), he returned to professional web development and worked on websites for clients including Oxygen Media, Inc., and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

He now lives in Sydney, Australia, with his brilliant girlfriend of three years, Sara Hames, and works as the senior front-end web developer and IT director for Digital Eskimo, Pty Ltd. In his rapidly diminishing spare time, Meitar enjoys volunteering his technical talents to nonprofit organizations and other small groups. Hes also an avid blogger and juggler, and he has way too many profiles on social networking sites.