How To Use HTML 5 Already Today

HTML 5 and CSS 3 are the close future of web-design and as we wrote before, the arrival has been somewhat noisy and well debated amongst developers. According to the W3C Working Group own timetable, it is estimated that HTML5 will reach W3C Recommendation status by the last quarter of 2010. But already today you can use HTML 5 and CSS 3.

Now is a pretty good time to begin to take in the new, and begin to practice on the HTML standard that will be in a close future. Therefore, Cashrevelations.com put together some recourses that will provide you with an opportunity to start using HTML 5 in an easy way.

5 HTML 5 Startup Recourses

1. 52framework – HTML 5 And CSS 3 Framework
The absolutely easiest method to make an HTML 5 site (or any type of site) is to begin from a framework. A good recourse is the user contributed and maintained 52framework (the first framework for HTML 5 and CSS 3). This new framework contains the most useful elements (or tags) of HTML 5 and CSS3. The 52framework also exist on Google Code as a project. You can read about all the features of 52framework right HERE.

2. Coding An HTML 5 Layout From Scratch – Smashing Magazine
Enrique Ramírez wrote a comprehensive (and logically explained) tutorial on HTML 5 and CSS 3 for Smashing Magazine, and even if the author writes that “HTML5 is not for everyone” you shouldn’t be discouraged by that. This tutorial together with the above 52framework will do at least 60% of the job for you. The final result of this tutorial is a simple (but potentially useful) layout – and you can see the final product (layout) here.

3. HTML5 Glossary – References Of Elements in HTML 5
HTML5 Doctor is a site that publishes articles relating to HTML 5 and it’s semantics and how to use them already now. This site has a comprehensive references of elements that are new or have been redefined in HTML5, presented in a nice and pedagogic way. There is also a section of the site, Ask The Doctor, where you can ask about HTML 5. Be sure to visit their Article Archive – it contains highly useful information for HTML 5 novices.

4. HTML 5 Cheat Sheet
Veign, a website design and development company, has released a 4 pages long HTML 5 guide that you can download for free in PDF format. This practical HTML 5 reference lists all tags supported in the current HTML 5 specification. Tags, tag attributes and a listing of tags removed in HTML 5 (and valid in HTML 4) are all listed in a Cheat Sheet format. You can find other good versions of HTML 5 Cheat Sheets right HERE and HERE.

5. CSS 3 Cheat Sheet
CSS level 3 is still under development and if you are interested of the progress the W3C maintains a bit complicated CSS 3 progress report called Current Work. The so practical Veign (again) has released a CSS 3 guide that you can download for free in PDF format. In this CSS 3 Cheat Sheet you can see the new properties, selectors and allowed values that are being introduced in the new CSS 3 standard.

There is more useful additional recourses on HTML 5 and CSS 3 on the web. Two of them we would like to recommend already here: CSS3 Info, an online resource covering CSS 3, and HTML5 Gallery, a showcase of sites using HTML 5 markup.

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