Opera's new Web Standards Curriculum, in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network, had released a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics. It already has support from many organizations (including Yahoo! and the Web Standards Project) and universities. 

Opera 9.5 has just been released! Head over to www.opera.com to download it and see the difference!  The beautifully engineered Opera 9.5 features better standards support, improved performace, better security and a brand new skin!

We are proud to announce that Opera’s developer tools have just launched. The alpha version of Opera Dragonfly lay the foundations for our developer tool strategy. Opera Dragonfly is available from Tools/Advanced/Developer Tools, in Opera 9.5 beta 2 and above.

The XFN microformat is a great way to mark up HTML to describe the relationships you have with people you know, but what can you actually do with that data once you and your friends have put it up on the web? Brian Suda explores this in depth in this article.

In this article Christopher Schmitt explores a couple of great new CSS design properties available in CSS3 - text-shadow for creating drop shadows, and background-size for automatically resizing background images as the browser window changes size. Exciting stuff indeed!