Build a better Web with Opera
Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera’s new Web Standards Curriculum, released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network, is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. It already has support from many organizations (including Yahoo! and the Web Standards Project) and universities. The first 23 articles are currently available, with about 30 more to be published between now and late September.
Table of contents
Note that currently only the first 23 articles of the curriculum are published, but more will follow in coming weeks, so stay tuned!
The beginning
- Introductory material, by Chris Mills.
Introduction to the world of web standards
- The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards, by Mark Norman Francis.
- How does the Internet work?, by Jonathan Lane.
- The Web standards model—HTML, CSS and JavaScript, by Jonathan Lane
- Beautiful dream, but what’s the reality?, by Jonathan Lane.
Web Design Concepts
This section won’t go into any code or markup details, and will act as an introduction to the design process before you start to create any graphics or code, as well as concepts of web design such as IA, navigation, usability etc.
- Information Architecture—planning out a web site, by Jonathan Lane.
- What does a good web page need?, by Mark Norman Francis.
- Colour Theory, by Linda Goin.
- Building up a site wireframe, by Linda Goin.
- Colour schemes and design mockups, by Linda Goin.
- Typography on the web, by Paul Haine.
HTML basics
- The basics of HTML, by Mark Norman Francis.
- The HTML <head> element, by Christian Heilmann.
- Choosing the right doctype for your HTML documents, by Roger Johansson.
The HTML body
- Marking up textual content in HTML, by Mark Norman Francis.
- HTML Lists, by Ben Buchanan.
- Images in HTML, by Christian Heilmann.
- HTML links—let’s build a web! by Christian Heilmann.
- HTML Tables, by Jen Hanen.
- HTML Forms—the basics, by Jen Hanen.
- Lesser–known semantic elements, by Mark Norman Francis.
- More HTML articles to follow…
Supplementary articles
- Getting your content online, by Craig Grannell.
- More about the document <head>, by Chris Heilmann.
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Wow, this is great. I love to see companies embrace standard…and educate others too.
Comment by Tammy — August 25, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
Sweet, go Opera and web standards. We may just win this battle someday.
Comment by Taz — August 27, 2008 @ 11:12 pm