Web development is a delicate and complex discipline, and requires an in-depth knowledge of the many architectures that exist today. The basics of these architectures — DOM Core, HTML, CSS and Events — are contained into the W3C DOM specifications. The DOM, which stands for Document Object Model, is the most essential concept in web design and development: it's the model that describes how all elements in a HTML page (like input fields, images, paragraphs, etc.) are related to the topmost structure — the document itself.

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DevKick is another directory where you can find carefully hand-picked components and resources. Focusing web developers and designers, DevKick provides a well-organized space with a clean interface, where you can browse components, play with demos, read the latest news from the blog and experience the latest web development experiments in the lab section.

Allthrough DevKick is quite new (at least, in its current instantiation) and is a bit limited at the moment (about 70 scripts and components are listed), it has a great potential to grow fast and become a good and solid reference, like WebAppers or Smashing (which is more generalist, but offers great content for developpers, too).

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