In the center of the page you’ll typically find one or more columns that contain content. Generally there is a larger column, and one or two smaller columns – often called a sidebar. The sidebar generally contains information about upcoming events, recent updates to the website, or various other pieces of information which is related…
At the bottom of the page, you can find the footer. This is where you traditionally found the copyright information, such as the year. Nowadays, with some modern legislation based in different countries’ laws, you can often find links to web privacy standards, terms or use (or usage), and the cookie usage policy to remain…
All pages will use the same starting point and a basic structure. This is what we’re going to start building. Now it won’t really be effective for anything but the most basic pages, but it gives it the necessary start that all HTML 5 pages need. First, we need to define what we call the…
As you’ve seen, you can store data as a string in the web storage systems, and that is it. It’s fine if you want to store a single number, or a string. But what about more complex data, which is harder to convert to a string. Converting Data to JSON Strings Well, using JSON (JavaScript…
To use Web Storage, we need to be both using HTML5 and JavaScript. Luckily Bootstrap is based on the HTML5 so that makes that part easy. To work with web elements, we can use JavaScript to access them, or jQuery, which is a little easier to identify individual elements in a script. Luckily for us,…
Using the Web Storage feature of HTML5 requires a bit of JavaScript, but overall is easy to use, once you learn it’s limits and capabilities. Web Storage is kind of like a simple, NoSQL database. I say, “like a” because while it is very similar in some respects, it is also different in others. Web…
Installation is like what the installation for any CSS or JavaScript framework for any website. You can either download the files from http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/, or you can link to it via the Content Delivery Network (CDN). Requiring jQuery Regardless of which version you use, you will still need to include jQuery if you are going to…
HTML 5 is still a work in progress. So changes are being made to both the specification, and even more so, how browsers support/interpret the specification. Key Features HTML5 adds some new features to HTML. This is because computers, and therefore browsers, can do more than the original HTML specification was designed to do. Here…
