An awesome book

I found a really cool book that someone designed (with a little help from the Google folks). It's an online/interactive book/app the guy wrote and put online - similar to what Tyler wants to do. If you are in chrome, you can add this as a web app, or I believe that you can go to the website as well, to look. Check it out and click on all the fun "easter eggs" that move and make noises. The author did all the sounds too!

http://www.veryawesomeworld.com/awesomebook/
or
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/an-awesome-book/jcafjdhiidcpdgpdbpnllmpheogojkfl

Happy Friday everyone! Peace out.
-Cameron

Awesome resource, free ebooks for JavaScript and HTML5

I just barely found this. I'll definately be using some of these as a resource

It looks like a pretty good list of all different types of JavaScript ebooks, as well as HTML5. I've seen a couple of them before Dive into HTML5 is a good resource for sure. The others look good as well.

My project

So I talked yesterday a bit, when we met about what I was going to do for a project. I want to make an interactive story book. I have a few on my tablet, and my kids absolutely love them. But I think that everything that's done in them could easily be done using web technolgies. I've created animations with javascript, I've created presentations, so in my mind, it shouldn't be too hard...

But it probably will be hard.

The book that I'm going to make interactive is called Goodnight Forest Moon it's a Star Wars spoof on the popular children's book Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown.

(I thought about doing one with Spiders are Wonderful by Toby Vok, but I decided that scaring children wasn't the goal here... although maybe a future project.)

To make it a bit easier (in theory) on myself I've been looking for a good framework to build off of. I would reccomend if you are doing a project, look for a framework to build on top of - a good generic one is the HTML5 Boilerplate There's no sense in inventing the wheel twice. The one I'll most likely be using is called Booklet. Maybe. It's not mobile optimized... yet. But we'll see.

P.S. <span> a good way to practice HTML is to write your blogposts using HTML, rather than with the WYSIWYG editor </span>.

Incredibly Awesome Web Development Resources For your Enjoyment

Ok... So maybe not everything should be an acronymn or have "Awesome" in it's title because the title of this post just sounds a little weird, and it would only be weirder as an acronymn (IAWDRFYE – That doesn't even make sense!)

Regardless of the akward name that this post has, these really are some good resources:

• Webmonkey.com has a good primer if you're kind of familiar with heneral HTML concepts, but aren't sure what HTML5 is exactly
• w3schools.com is a good all around general resource, they have classes for free on there, some of the examples are a little confusing, but overall it's a very good resource for both learning and reference.
• Htmldog.com is a very well written website, and and actually is a companion for the book. I hesitate to put it up because it only deals with XHTML, and we'll be dealing mainly with HTML5, but if you're an absolute beginner to HTML, I haven't found a better written resource than this While it is based on XHTML, many of the tags still work without any problems in HTML5, and it would serve as a good base.
• 1stwebdesigner.com is my new favorite web tutorial repository, there are tons, some are advanced, and others are more beginner oriented.