Don't be confused by 'The Missing Manual' series of books' title, so that worry about you can't understand this HTML5: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition. In fact, there is no big deal, and your worry is unnecessary. There are a lot of readers as experienced web designers usually introduce this book like this - reading this book needs you to satisfy the following conditions: have written some simple web pages, know a little about CSS and a bit of JavaScript or jQuery.

A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web is a very compact and concise (only 261 pages) technical guide for web designing based on the graphic design principles. The whole book was divided into 5 big parts: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Color, and Layout.

For beginners who want to develop, create their own websites or work on website front-end design, then HTML and CSS are two fundamental programming languages must be mastered - because they completely control the structure and appearance of the whole webpage/website together. Fortunately, they are also the easiest to learn two among all programming languages.

JavaScript is currently the main programming language for the development of Web client, also the core of Ajax technology. And the both win of ECMAScript 5 and HTML5 in the battle over the standard made a large number of proprietary implementations and client extension enter into the official specification, also added a lot of new features for JavaScript to adapt to the future development.

Stylizer is a professional and popular visual CSS code editor on the market, developed by Skybound from Canada. Although you can choose to use full-featured IDE or some source code editors instead, the professional capabilities and features of Stylizer can help you write your CSS code better and faster.