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Opera Web Standards Curriculum
As the most standards-compliant Web browser, Opera is dedicated to promoting Web standards across the globe. Web standards make the Web available to anyone, on any device, anywhere in the world.
Opera has created the Web Standards Curriculum (WSC) in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network. This tutorial course takes students from complete beginner to having a solid grounding in standards-based Web design, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development. The course is supported by top companies and organizations such as the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and Yahoo!.
Split into more than 50 focused articles, students can follow the curriculum from start to finish or simply read articles that interest them the most. Each article contains essential theory, practical examples, and exercise questions.
Why should you incorporate the Opera WSC into your curriculum? Web standards in a Web site promote efficiency, ease of maintenance, accessibility, device compatibility, and search optimization. The Opera WSC features the most up-to-date practices in Web standards. Best of all, the course is free, requiring no expensive textbooks.
Read more about the Web Standards Curriculum, and review its table of contents.
Making the WSC work for you
For educators
Pass on Web Standards and good development practices to the next generation of Web developers. Opera’s Web Standards Curriculum deconstructs Web Standards into modules you can teach either in order or as part of your own lesson plans.
For students
If your course already teaches Web Standards and best practices, then great - why not supplement your course texts with our material? If not, then lobby your teachers to adopt our material, thereby helping to improve the relevance of their lessons to real-world web development.
For Web developers
Web Standards have never been easier to learn. Everything you need to know is condensed into short, helpful tutorials that inform and inspire. Opera’s Web Standards Curriculum can help you brush up on things you know and maybe even teach you something you didn’t.
For businesses
Web Standards Curriculum is ideal for in-house training. Empower your development team to use Web Standards that reduce bandwidth, spur innovation and promote good coding practices across the Web.
For the Web
The beauty of the Web is that it creates a uniform, international development platform. Using Web Standards means your sites will be quicker to code and maintain, more compact, and accessible to web users regardless of their browsing platform and (dis)ability.
Projects about Opera
Are you interested in doing a project or assignment about Opera Software? Here are some company resources to help kick-start your research:
- Browsers: Information about Opera Software’s web browsers for Windows/Mac/Linux, phones and other devices.
- History: History about the company and the versions and features of our browsers.
- Investor relations: Financial reports, stock exchange announcements and other financial information.
- Press: Press releases, reviewer’s guides, images, FAQ and executive biographies.
- State of the Mobile Web: Monthly reports featuring industry insight on the latest trends in mobile browsing.
- Opera-pedia: Promotional materials and slidesets about Opera features and web standards.
If you need additional help with research, simply email education[at]opera.com and fully outline your project proposal (including research question, course information and topics/products of interested) and how we can support you with information.* We have worked with marketing students to hold focus groups about Opera and the Web, arranged interviews with our interaction designers for IT students, and much more.
If you are seeking information about internships, we offer two-month paid positions in our summer internship program. These internships are typically in Engineering, Application Development, Quality Assurance, and System Administration. Please apply online for all summer internships.
* During times when a high number of requests are received, we may not be able to support all projects.
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Karl Dubost, W3C“It has been now released and it’s a wonderful piece of work. I will give it a full read and review in the next month and suggest things to Chris Mills. Now how can you help? Read it, use it in your Web agency, in your classroom, among your Web developers friends. Note what people misunderstood, suggest techniques to Chris Mills to improve his materials. Publish it on your blog, talk about it. Let it grow in the community. It’s a cool work which comes from a long story and really it is beautiful story. Thanks to Chris Mills and Opera. They did it.”
Candie Sampson, Art Director, NarrowCasting“Just wanted to send you a quick note to say thank you for your web standards course. I am a completely self- taught graphic designer, and I specialize in print. I have been trying (un-successfully) to teach myself web design for some time now, and your course has helped me more in the last 5 days than all of the other materials I have been trying for the last few years combined.”
Glenda Sims, Senior Systems Analyst, University of Texas, United States“Web development and design are ever evolving professions. Anyone teaching these subjects must ask themselves if they are equipping their students with best practices or burdening them with impractical methodologies. All of us in this field can benefit from this resource and use it as a catalyst to further the W3C vision of ‘Web for Everyone. Web on Everything.’”