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If you're a developer, or would-be developer, working on any type of web-based project, there are a couple of free resources that I recommend for following web application standards, and mastering cutting-edge web development languages. Open source developers and proprietary developers alike can benefit from Opera Web Standards Curriculum and W3 Schools. Both sites are extremely rich in resources for building best-of-breed online applications. Here's what's under the hood.

If you?re a web developer, you may have a love-hate relationship with CSS: it?s great stuff, but it?s hard to go from a blank screen to a fully-worked-out design, especially if writing CSS isn?t your everyday activity. So says Mike Gunderloy on our sister site WebWorkerDaily. To jumpstart your thinking the next time you get stuck on this problem, Mike suggests bookmarking Open Source Web Designs: over 2000 web site designs, with most of them being XHTML/CSS-based. Check out the story.

OK, so there aren't really that many secrets about the open web - all of the HTML and CSS and Javascript code is out there for the taking. But there is a lot of knowledge about how best to work with these standards, given the crazy mix of browsers and operating systems that web developers need to put up with, and much of that knowledge is hard to come by. The new Google DocType project is an attempt to codify and spread some of this knowledge.