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Thank you Opera!

Opera, yeah, that internet browser that not very many people use; has done something magnificent for the web world. Opera Web Standards Curriculum is a free compilation of materials to teach web design/development with standards for beginners. I am taking part in this because I'm sure my knoweledge in this area is  lacking, and I am surely tired of operationg as a second tier web developer without a strong foundation to build on. When I was in University, I didn't directly study web materials aside from HTML. During the end of my college career i wanted to shift my focus to web and mobile deliverables, cell phone content, web content, flash games, etc. So, I started somewhat doing web design through trial and error, and generally just doing whatever to make it work, or at least look like it works. After working at my first web job after school, I realised I needed to get my act together and really learn about the web, developing for it, and its standards. After two months of that job i was already tired of the terrible unorganized websites I was updating. They were ugly and not standards compliant, the worse part was having to put articles nearly two years old on the site as if they were as important as the new articles. Content is important too, and if noone noticed the article wasn't up two years ago when it was new; it's probably not that important. Anyway, with my new free time I am glad to have access to this and hope to use it and learn from it to the fullest extent available. Once again, thank you Opera. p.s. I have your browser installed