The web is an amazing place. There’s so much information available to people, and it increases exponentially. Aside from the sheer amount of information out there, there are many people who make it their career to present that information to others in a useful way. By useful I don’t only mean in a way that feels familiar or logical to people consuming the information, but rather people who want to present and maintain information beautifully. Beautiful information, its certain that the majority of us would rather not spend a lot of time in dank, dirty, litter strewn places in the physical; that mindset reflects how we want to interact on the web, on our devices and machines. While we want more and more to consume on the web, it takes a certain amount of effort to provide or contribute it; literally and beautifully.
The web is awesome, but the web can be even better.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a web developer, a web designer, or just someone who uses the web in a general fashion. The web is about everyone and it should be accessible, usable, and beautiful for everyone. Do you want the web better than it already is? Do you ask yourself what you can do to make it better?
If your someone who uses the web in general, there are things you can do to help improve the web. One of the biggest things you can contribute is feedback. Have you ever been to a website that asks you how your experience was? Perhaps the site has a dandy feedback button clipped to the side of the page? How about a contact email for the webmaster if no such feature is available? Take the time out to provide some useful, thought worthy feedback to the people who run the website. Don’t tell them how their website should look like Google+ just because you like it, instead tell them what you like and dislike about their website, leave other websites and services out of it. And no, clicking a Facebook “like” button is not really useful feedback.
Alright, so maybe you’re not hip to the idea of giving a website some thought worthy feedback for fear of rejection or because your unsure of your own knowledge about the web and all its mysterious voodoo. Not a problem. You can still make an effort to learn about the web, about the technologies used in it, and even meet people who work on it. If you’re a beginner, and have been frequently visiting W3Schools to learn. Please stop and visit http://w3fools.com/ for some reasons why you probably shouldn’t. If your still looking for a place to start here are just a couple of suggestions:
- http://www.20thingsilearned.com
- http://movethewebforward.org/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/learn
- http://p2pu.org/en/
Already a web aficionado, but want to find ways to give back?
Movethewebforward was put together by a group of web gurus to help others find ways to be involved in the web platform community and stay up to date with whats happening. The web platform community goes beyond just web application design and development, but also incorporates communities involved in the development and maintenance of the web browsers people use, web standards, those people involved in deep, innovative experimentation with new web technologies and beyond. This is stuff that we should be aware of, having (a whole hell of a lot of) fun with, and supporting for inclusion into developing modern and future web applications.
WebFWD is an Open Innovation Program being spearheaded by Mozilla to support Open Source projects that extend the web. The WebFWD program offers accepted applicants valuable mentorship opportunities, infrastructure, and a lot of access to Mozilla and partner resources.
MDN is Mozilla’s Development Network. The MDN is not only a bona-fide treasure chest chock full of resources for beginners, but it’s also an excellent place to brush up on your own knowledge and find projects to get involved in. From here you can find web development documentation, learning tools, demos and experiments and just a whole list of open source projects to be involved in, from the documentation itself to Mozilla products like Firefox.
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