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Opera Web Standards Curriculum The Opera guys did a super job by creating the Opera Web Standards Curriculum. 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. The first 41 articles are now published, and roughly ten ones covering JavaScript basics will follow ASAP, to complete the course.

95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.

The draft document "How People with Disabilities Use the Web" provides examples of people with different disabilities using Web sites, applications, browsers, and authoring tools.

FDI fonts.info believes in the future of web fonts, so we decided to provide webdesigners with a set of high-quality web fonts supporting a wide range of character encodings. Graublau Sans Web regular and bold were designed by Georg Seifert. Both fonts may be embedded in any website free of charge.

Quelle technologie choisir pour ses développements web ? Au-delà des discours marketing et politiques, le choix d'une technologie web devra être guidé par les usages.

This large collection of recently released icon sets is supposed to help designers improve their designs on their web-sites and in web-applications. All icon sets are free.

"More often than not, the mobile experience for a web application or site is designed and built after the PC version is complete. Learn the three reasons web applications should be designed for mobile first instead: mobile is exploding; mobile forces you to focus; and mobile extends your capabilities."

"articles about web design work flow which is very important for every team or individual to work effectively. Sometimes they look very scientific, but there will be good theoretical advice that might help"

Starter kits are great timesavers for web designers and they are particularly useful for those who often create mock-ups for project pitching on daily basis. If you are a designer-cum-programmer think of it as your code snippets

Le choix d'une ou de familles de polices de caractères dans la conception de pages web qui s'appuie sur les feuilles de styles (CSS) est d'autant plus crucial que le but de l'opération est d'obtenir la même qualité graphique et typographique que celle que nous obtenons en utilisant des images textuelles peaufinées dans Photoshop... mais cette fois, sans images.

For several years now the 960px grid system (960.gs) has been designers' favorite pick to help structure and design web layouts. As screens and resolutions have gotten bigger, I've found that the 960 grid system does not always fit my needs. 20px gutters and only a 940px content area is a bit too small for the modern web.

Alors pyramide inversée ou coupe de champagne? Un sujet à lancer au prochain Paris web. De grandes polémiques en perspectives...

Tentative d'identification des plus fortes tendances du design Web pour 2009, première partie.

Le blog des projets « innovants » sur lesquels Microsoft France travaille avec des Web Agency

"SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It's suitable for most web sites - accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links - and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences."

"A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web aims to teach you techniques for designing your website using the principles of graphic design. Featuring five sections, each covering a core aspect of graphic design: Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout."

Loop11 is a web-based user-experience testing tool, allowing companies to conduct online, unmoderated user testing on any kind of digital interface. Loop11 is not a survey or web analytics tool, but a user experience tool… helping you to understand user behaviour.

"Not everyone realizes it, but depending on the web browser used to open your email in Hotmail, Gmail, and others, it can be rendered quite differently."