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HTML5 is more than a markup language — it’s a dozen independent web standards all rolled into one. Until now, all it’s been missing is a manual. With this thorough, jargon-free guide, you’ll learn how to build web apps that include video tools, dynamic drawings, geolocation, offline web apps, drag-and-drop, and many other features. HTML5 is the future of the Web, and with this book you’ll reach it quickly.
Breadcrumbs are these tiny paths you find at the top of the page. Next to the menus they provide an additional way to navigate the site. Furthermore, they help the visitor to position himself within the site’s structure.
A good implementation of a web design is built on div and span tags. But they really come together in the CSS styling definitions. Keeping your layout parameters limited to alignments and floats results in a design that scales optimally on various resolutions, platforms and browsers. This way, you can make your design look good even on a mobile phone.
However, as a front-end designer, you sometimes find yourself in need of the more advanced placing methods CSS offers. For example, you could be looking for a way to include a graphic in a div tag, somehow aligning with the running text on the one hand but positioned "independently" on the other.
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