Building HTML5 Forms with Dreamweaver

- [David] Welcome to this course on Building HTML5 Forms with Dreamweaver. I'm David Carlins, I'm the author of HTML5 and CSS3 For Dummies, the co-author of Building Websites All-in-One For Dummies, as well as authoring and contributing to dozens of other books on web, digital, graphic and interactive design. I'm excited to be your instructor in this course. Forms are the most important way that your website becomes a two-way street.

Not just speaking to users but taking orders. Accumulating precious mail list names, garnering feedback and building communities. Our objective is to survey and dive deeply into how to build online forms that are inviting and accessible for users in any environment. Throughout this course, we'll bounce back and forth between key conceptual approaches to designing great forms and the techniques needed to build them.

We'll focus on new tools available in HTML5, CSS3, and Dreamweaver. Among those techniques, maximizing Dreamweaver's powerful code view as well as built-in, menu-driven, time-saving features, making input easy and validating, that is to say, testing data with HTML5's new input types and designing forms and form elements that respond to different environments particularly accessible to mobile users.

I'm confident that with what you're about to learn, you'll be well-prepared to design forms that are inviting, accessible, and yes, fun for users.