One of my friend wants to learn web designing and he is having no prior experience of web development or programming.<p>Is there any HTML5/CSS3 book that doesn't expect its readers to have prior experience of HTML4/CSS2 ?
Head First HTML with CSS : <a href="http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/" rel="nofollow">http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfhtml/</a><p>Once you are comfortable with HTML and CSS, you can learn new techniques / tricks introduced in HTML5 & CSS3 easily ( from any other source, say a tutorial ).
This one is great: <a href="http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/" rel="nofollow">http://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/</a><p>Discussed on HN here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3531160" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3531160</a>
You can also check out: <a href="http://diveintohtml5.info/" rel="nofollow">http://diveintohtml5.info/</a><p>The original author took a break from the web but it's now being maintained by a couple a loyal fans