Build Better Websites With Opera’s Free Online Web Standards Course
The Opera Web Standards Curriculum is a set of articles published by Opera in cooperation with the Yahoo! Developer Network in an attempt to build a better web. There are currently 23 articles available, but more is promised to be released in the coming weeks.
Taken from the site:
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.
Below are the currently published articles:
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.
July 21st, 2008 at 5:17 pm
all web designers should have of opera web standards - sounds like a good course