I recently learned that W3C is also responsible for an educational website http://www.w3schools.com/ which provides free tutorials to teach people how to construct websites. Not only can you learn such skills as HTML, XML, SQL, and JavaScript, they provide a free “try it yourself” web editor on which you can practice your skills. You can even become certified in various website construction skills as HTML or CSS, via the W3C’s online certificate program, recommended by such respected universities as the University of Iowa.
As a reference librarian, I was especially interested to note they have statistics which can be difficult to find elsewhere. For instance, on the W3 schools web browser page, http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp, they provide statistics of which web browsers are being used the most frequently, broken down by year, month, and browser. Take a look! I was fascinated to see that as of August 2012, Firefox and Chrome are winning the browser wars, with IE Explorer being used less than 17% of the time!
Review by Ann Willard, SWC Librarian
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