Decoding HTML5: My New Book

Decoding HTML5: My New Book

on Mar 8th 2012 with 46 comments

Hey guys! I have a few fun things to announce. After months of work, my new book, Decoding HTML5, is finally available. Even better, though, I’ve managed to work out a special arrangement with Rockable Press to offer much, much more.

The Book - $19

Decoding HTML5

Toying with new JavaScript APIs is like Christmas for me!

Toying with new JavaScript APIs is like Christmas for me! So when I set out to write this book, I had one goal in mind: decipher that incredibly confusing spec into something that any John Q. designer or developer can understand. It’s what I wish I had in the beginning.

Have you ever found yourself thinking, “I wish there was somebody who could sit next to me and make me understand this code…because I don’t!” I’ve been in that position countless times.

Well, if you can relate, I think this book just might do the trick. Rather than using high level jargon that no beginner could possibly understand, I’ve done my best to break these complicated concepts into chunks that everyone can grasp.

I cover everything from the new semantic elements, to form enhancements, to a variety of the new JavaScript APIs, such as web workers, web storage, and geolocation.

Now Available: $19

HTML5 Fundamentals

In addition to the book, I’ve also released my latest Tuts+ Premium course, called “HTML5 Fundamentals.”

HTML5 Fundamentals Screencast Course

Split into two chunks, this first course – geared specifically for those of you who prefer visual training – will get you up and running with HTML5 in no time. It’s the perfect companion to Decoding HTML5. The follow-up, “Advanced HTML5,” is scheduled for May-June.

A Special Arrangement

I’m very excited to announce that I was able to work out a special arrangement with Rockable Press.

Beginning today, Decoding HTML5 has already been added to the Tuts+ Premium library.

For those unfamiliar, Tuts+ Premium provides top-notch education in the creative fields. You might be familiar with the massively popular (and free) “30 Days To Learn jQuery“? That was part of Tuts+ Premium, and there are countless more courses and ebooks on the site just like it. A monthly membership to the site is $19.

So what this means is that you have two choices, if you’d like to pick this book up:

Overall, I really hope you enjoy the book!

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  • http://synfyre.net/ n1tr0b

    Seems like very fun to read.

  • http://webarto.com webarto

    Great, congratulations :)

  • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
    Author

    Thanks guys. And no Justin Bieber references.

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Though a couple reference to Leroy Jenkins, Clueless, and Total Recall might make an appearance. I’m not really at liberty to discuss that though.

    • Simon

      Greate job Jeffrey!

  • Annonymous

    Not so much a Book as an actual eBook. I quite it quite annoying that there’s no mention of the fact it’s not an actual printed book in this post.

    I believe you should update your promotion to reflect it’s an eBook not a book. The definition of ‘book’ is that it’s of written or printed work on pages glued or sewn together.

    MEH

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Pretty sure there will be a written version available through Amazon soon.

      If you find something like that annoying…I worry. Maybe take an aspirin. The world is rapidly moving toward digital books.

      • Annonymous

        Will keep my eyes peeling on Amazon. It’s not so much the fact it’s not available as a book, it’s more I got all excited after seeing the tweet only to find out it’s an eBook when trying to buy it.

        Personally I hate eBooks, and I’ve tried and tried to read them, but it just doesn’t work on me. I have learning difficulties which especially affects my reading so sadly no matter how much I want to read it, I simply can’t

      • dj

        Jeff… I think you misunderstood “anonymous”. What I saw that he was annoyed with (and in my opinion doesn’t at all need an aspirin) wasn’t that it was an ebook; but, that nowhere in your promo did you mention that what Envato was selling currently (the one for which you were asking $19) was an eBook as opposed to print edition. It may have merely been an oversight but it’s what internet buyers have learned to expect from ads and I can see why he pointed it out to you and would think you’d be grateful not worried.

        I can see that you answered another commenter who had a similar question with a link to sample pages; and from them I see that your book has about 350 pages in 16 chapters and a smattering of color diagrams and code – all additional things to point out in promo paragraphs. (Not a single Beiber reference that I could see in the sample pages, and a full color photo of the author to boot).

        And, I agree that you can say eBooks are much more prevalent in number now; however, don’t believe you can assume that people are actually preferring them over “print” for “how to” books like yours. I personally find eBooks impractical to use when you are trying to follow along with examples by programming on your computer (I don’t have fancy two screens). So while we all in our house use our Nooks to read novels and stories; we prefer to buy actual print for these kind of things – and the only aspirin we take is what they recommend for “healthy heart” issues. What will be the “real” print cost vs the eBook?

  • http://www.nouveller.com/ Benjamin Reid

    Congratulations on releasing the book Jeffrey. Can we view any samples?

  • Ramon

    Hola Jeffrey

    felictaciones por tu nuevo libro, te deseo exitos en ventas.

    Feliz dia de la mujer para todas las que visitan esta pagina.

    Muak

  • http://www.webdesignerslondon.co Del

    Congrats Jeffery! Know this will be a great purchase! :)

  • http://www.rinconandroid.com/ aplicaciones android

    the new code html5 present more suggestions, i wait that the book answer it

  • pearl

    Awesome im buying a tutsplus for this

  • http://crosswebs.net Jake Mills

    Mine!

  • Joseph Izang

    Wonderful Jeff. Being that I am Nigerian, is it possible to pay for it online and downloading? Paypal don’t work here and its our fault but if you let us know if we can pay then it would be lovely. But I have followed you since your days at themeforest.net and I must say you are an inspiration to me. congrats on the new book and hope more good stuff keeps coming from you and from nettuts

    Cheers

    Joe

  • http://akasuna.com akasuna

    Is there kindle edition?

  • Rick Kippert

    Jeffrey—I never comment but I felt compelled. You’re an inspiration to me! Do you ever sleep?

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Very much — there’s just a handful of things that were all launching around the same time. :)

  • supprof

    thank you very mutch jeffry
    can make us php/mysql serie like the jquery serie witch take us to the PDO if possible. i know that there is many videos series in net but you, you know the best way because of your name.
    thank you very mutch jeff

  • http://www.code-pal.com Sumeet Chawla

    This is awesome! :) Looking forward to reading it :) Knowing your tutorials, am sure its going to be great.

  • Rory

    What a busy little bee you are Jeff.

    If the previous quality of your tutorials and articles are anything to go by, I’d be an idiot not to buy it.

    so you’ve taught me jquery, oophp, phing, regex…and now html5.

    Thank you good sir!

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      haha!

  • http://palpaldal.com Nuruzzaman Sheikh

    Thanks for publishing such a good book. I know people like and trust you for your expertise, in-depth knowledge on topic and a great teaching heart.

    Good luck with the sell and teaching approach.

  • http://www.romanianni.com Román

    I been a tuts+ member for two months now. I dont have words to thank for all of your work Jeffrey!

    You are a inspiration to me!

    Thanks for everything!

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Ahh thank you very much. :)

  • alireza

    Thanks for everything!

    I Love You Jeffrey Way.

  • Hamid

    Hello Jeffrey and congratulations Man!:-) after few taturials as i tho you just missed an idea like this and finally you’ve it now:-) i really wish to see ya in real in my country “Iran” and just listening you in a conferance or something like that. i love you man and your way of teaching some tuts.god blessing you jeffrey, GL:-)

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Thanks, Hamid!

  • JB

    Read this article yesterday, thinking now would be a great time to get a premium membership.
    Just woke up today, after a night out, reading the article again.
    Comparing where I got most of my moneys worth: Lots of great tutorials, articles and eBooks, for less than $20, or a headache for about 3 times the amount.

    It suddenly became very clear to me: I’m getting a Tuts+ Premium membership!

    Thanks for all the great content, and keep up the good work!

  • aikah

    great i’ll definetly check it out.

  • http://mattrheault.com Matt

    awwwww yeah, can’t wait to read it! Great work Jeff, always a fan!

  • http://sdbwebsolutions.com Serg

    Hi Jeffrey,
    This is another reason you give us to get a premium net.tuts membership!

    I hope anytime soon I can have the chance to participate /chat on a webinar where you are the main Speaker.

    Great job!

    Let us know if have plans to do interactive webinars:)

  • http://www.createchpro.com Hassan Raza

    That will indeed help me a lot :)

  • http://www.uidesigns.ro/ Catalin

    Congrats, let’s do some reading now :)

  • http://www.gustavstromberg.se/ Gustav Strömberg

    Will buy if it comes on print…

  • http://www.totalbounty.com John Pratt

    Nice to see someone putting together quality tutorials liks this (that don’t cost an arm and a let). These are the kinds of things I wished I had years ago….

  • Adel G

    That’s a great book for sure, I just wish that I can Buy it….%$^#$ you Paypal for not including my country

  • Brad

    Excellent Book!

    Now for the Siddharth question of the day, in what year did Jeffery Way last sleep with all he does here?

  • Artur Rychlewicz

    Hi, Jeffrey, I have one question. I saw it in “30 Days to Learn HTML and CSS” course. When you use Sublime Text and, for example, you write and you want write href inside a tag you have a tip with href and other attributes. I have ST for my notebook with Windows (and yes, I wanna Macbook) i haven’t that tips. It is anywhere in settings? Thanks.

  • http://www.creation-site-internet-pro.com creation site internet pro

    Jeffrey, that sounds good!
    A nice way to understand Html 5, So, this book will be usefull for the business on the internet.
    Thank you for this book, not very expensive and good for internet workers.

  • http://sarvamantra.com kamal

    hey jeffery , Lovely..good work..congratulation ..

  • zaw

    wow jeff, u have unbelievely passion on what u doing. may i ask what does encourage you to do all these hard work most of the time?

  • http://me.web.id Intana

    Great, congratulations :)