Opera compiles web design curriculum
Web Design
10 July 2008
Opera, the company best known for its browser software, has launched a web design curriculum as part of an initiative to improve development training globally.
The Opera Web Standards Curriculum is freely accessible under a Creative Commons licence and was created by the company in a bid to make it easier for web designers to gain the skills they need for standards-compliant design.
Topics covered in the curriculum include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, typography and graphics, while experts such as Yahoo!'s Christian Heilmann and Mark Norman have written a series of articles to help designers work to best practice standards.
"The new Web Standards Curriculum will reach many web developers who are new to web standards, arming them with the tools and information they need to deploy web standards easily and efficiently," said Hakon Wium Lie, chief technology officer at Opera.
Meanwhile, the current skills crisis in the web design sector could be due to the sheer number of programming languages and tools available to developers that make it hard for them to excel in all, according to Neil McAllister of InfoWorld.
To make more money from your website
CALL US NOW ON 01483 740800.
