40+ Useful HTML5 Tutorials

1. An HTML5 Slideshow w/ Canvas & jQuery

You’ve probably heard a lot about the new HTML5 canvas element. As the name implies, this is a special element that allows us to create and modify graphics. In addition, we can also use it like any other element on the page – apply jQuery animations on it, listen for events and integrate it deeply into our layouts.

2. How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App

You can create a native app that lives with all the other apps, and for the most part, it’s going to be a pitch-perfect imitation. You can do this with the skill set you probably already have: HTML(5), CSS, and JavaScript.
I’ll show you how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. More specifically, I’ll walk you through the process of building a Tetris game.

3. Making a Beautiful HTML5 Portfolio

In today’s tutorial we will be making a beautiful HTML5 portfolio powered by jQuery and the Quicksand plugin. You can use it to showcase your latest work and it is fully customizable, so potentially you could expand it to do much more.

4. Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms

Here we’re going to take a look at how to style a beautiful HTML5 form using some advanced CSS and latest CSS3 techniques. I promise you will want to style your own forms after you’ve read this article.

5. Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch

6. Create a Stylish Contact Form with HTML5 & CSS3

Follow this step by step process to create your own stylish contact form completely out of HTML5 and CSS3.

7. Create Vector Masks using the HTML5 Canvas

The HTML5 canvas can be used to create a lot of cool things, like games, video effects, graphs and more. It can also be used to produce some slightly less complex effects, like manipulating images on the page.
In this post we will look at how to use the canvas tag and clipping to create images that aren’t so rectangular.

8. Create a Grid Based Web Design in HTML5 & CSS3

Follow this step by step walkthrough of the making of a sleek website design for an eyewear brand in HTML5 and CSS3.

9. Code a Backwards Compatible, One Page Portfolio with HTML5 and CSS3

HTML5 is much more considerate to semantics and accessibility as we don’t have to throw meaningless div’s everywhere. It introduces meaningful tags for common elements such as navigations and footers which makes much more sense and are more natural.

10. Create An Elegant Website With HTML 5 And CSS3

The aim is to create an elegant blog/portfolio for an efficient professional (graphic and web designer or photographer). Below you can see the final resul of our efforts; don’t forget that it is coded through two new great technologies, HTML 5 and CSS3.

11. Fullscreen Slideshow with HTML5 Audio and jQuery

In today’s tutorial we’ll create a fullscreen photo slideshow to illustrate a New York picture series. We will add sounds with the HTML5 audio element in order to give life to the gallery and try to recreate the ambient of this vibrant city.

12. Design & Code a Cool iPhone App Website in HTML5

In this tutorial we’ll get a taste of what’s to come by building a cool iPhone app website using a HTML5 structure, and visual styling with some CSS3 effects.

13. Blowing up HTML5 video

I’ve been doing a bit of experimenting with the Canvas and Video tags in HTML5 lately, and found some cool features hiding in plain sight. One of those is the Canvas.drawImage() api call.

14. Getting Offline Access with HTML5 Application Cache

The internet is no longer about just websites; it’s about web applications. Often, our users are on portable or mobile devices, and they won’t always have access to a network. With HTML5’s Application Cache, you can provide them with all or some of the functionality they would have online, no matter where they go.

15. HTML5 Grayscale Image Hover

Now with HTML5 canvas, images can be manipulated into grayscale without having to use image editing software. I’ve put together a demo to show you how to use HTML5 & jQuery to dynamically clone color images into grayscale.

16. How to create water drops effect using HTML5 canvas

Today we continue JavaScript examples, and our article will about using javascript in modeling of water effects. This will emulation of water drops at images.

17. How to Build Cross-Browser HTML5 Forms

In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at how to serve HTML5 forms to modern browsers, while compensating for older browsers by using a mix of Webforms2, Modernizr, jQuery UI and assorted jQuery Plugins.

18. How to Code a Clean Website Template in HTML5 & CSS3

19. Semantics in HTML 5

For this article, let’s turn solely to the semantics of HTML. It’s something I’ve been interested in for many years, and something which I believe is fundamentally important to the future of HTML.

20. The video element

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21. Easy Percentage Grid System with HTML5

Web grid systems help front end coders to layout a document faster. In this article I am presenting a percentage based grid system. The main characteristics of this grid system is that all the columns have percentage based width so they adapt to the container element.

22. Build your First Game with HTML5

HTML5 is growing up faster than anyone could have imagined. Powerful and professional solutions are already being developed…even in the gaming world! Today, you’ll make your first game using Box2D and HTML5's canvas tag.

23. Creating a HTML5 & CSS3 single page template

Today we will create HTML5 web template with combination with CSS3 and jQuery.

24. Coding a CSS3 & HTML5 One-Page Website Template

Today we are making a HTML5 web template, using some of the new features brought by CSS3 and jQuery, with the scrollTo plug-in.

25. Build your own HTML5 3D engine

26. How to Build Asteroids with the Impact HTML5 Game Engine

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to build a simple space-based asteroids game using the Impact game engine, one of the more robust engines out at the moment.

27. HTML5 Apps: Positioning with Geolocation

At the heart of every location-based application is positioning and geolocation. In this tutorial you will learn the geolocation capabilities of HTML5 and the basic principles needed to take advantage of them in your next HTML5 app!

28. Code a Vibrant Professional Web Design with HTML5/CSS3

We will use HTML5 and CSS3, as a proof of concept and as a way for you to learn these upcoming W3C standards through practice. We will also use the 960 Grid System to speed up development time.

29. How to create offline HTML5 web apps in 5 easy steps

Among all cool new features introduced by HTML5, the possibility of caching web pages for offline use is definitely one of my favorites. Today, I’m glad to show you how you can create a page that will be available for offline browsing.

30. Syncing Content With HTML5 Video

One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few of the boundaries that browsers have been confined to. Instead of restricting user interaction to text, links, images and forms, HTML5 promotes multimedia, from a generic