»CSS 3 and HTML 5

The Web is evolving to such a speed that if you stop you are lost !! I still remember when I started to look at the first web page in 1997 or 1998 when all we were using where huge tables with all the cutting pictures nested within each <td> element. After so many years the programming language, but I would prefer to say, the WWW language is keep evolving and reaching a level of detail and potentiality one could not even believe if not reading or looking with his own eyes. I started to learn CSS in full detail with two books: Eric Mayer on CSS and More Eric Mayer on CSS and these two books open my mind to the beauty of CSS. I am not an expert, but I know enough that you can do so cool things with CSS without having headache with javascript or programming language. Those two books were written in 2002 and 2004, and now we have moved to CSS 3 with so much new features. I strongly suggest having a look at Zen Garden to discover the beauty of CSS.

In the meantime that CSS evolves also HTML is evolving!! if you have lost html 2, 3 or 4 (if it ever exist) you have not missed a lot. There has been a lot of talking and writing, but to be honest the future, something you want to invest is HTML 5!! I have recently (2011) bought two books and I am eating them like I cannot have enough in my free time. I don't know where I should start to tell you what is really cool and what it is not, but for one element it is worth to learn HTML5: CANVAS !!! Canvas is the element that will allow you to draw anything you want on your web page. IE is still behind in supporting this standard, but he is coming. There will be a lot to come and shortly I will post some of my tests with these new cool features.