Creating Fullscreen HTML5 Video Backgrounds
by Susan Simkins
In this course, we will add HTML5 video to a website and learn how to style it with CSS to create a video background effect. Software required: Brackets Text Editor, Photoshop CC, After Effects CC.
What you'll learn
In this course, we will add HTML5 video to a website and learn how to style it with CSS to create a video background effect. We will learn how to choose videos for the web, make edits, and what formats we need for widespread browser support. We will finish up by discussing cross browser testing. This course requires an existing foundation in HTML and CSS. Software required: Brackets Text Editor, Photoshop CC, After Effects CC.
About the author
Susan is a web design tutor for Pluralsight. Growing up, Susan was both a passionate artist as well as a computer tech aficionado. When she discovered the world of web development, she found that she could meld those two passions together into something amazing. Soon after, Susan began devoting herself to building beautiful and functional web content for businesses and nonprofits. It was through those experiences Susan developed a fluency for web coding languages.
Since then, Susan has develo... moreped a desire to teach others the mysteries of web development. Through her work here at Pluralsight, she aims to build up a deep and expansive library of web development training. If you're just starting out with development or are already comfortable with the essential computing languages, let Susan free your mind to what’s possible in the world of web development. Go ahead, take the red pill and see how deep the rabbit-hole goes.