Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Vitaly Friedman has pulled together a wonderful list of bookmarks for web developers. This is a page you want to be sure to bookmark!

Aardvark is a useful Firefox extension that you can use to identify block level elements (divs, h1, ul, img, p, table, td, etc.) on web pages. Right click on the page that you want to analyze and select Start Aardvark. When you move your mouse over each block level element on the page a red outline of the element will display along with the type of element and any id’s or classes associated with the element. This is a really helpful tool for learning how pages were created.

I like anything that has to do with photography and CSS. Stu Nichols, of the CSS Playground, has written a tutorial on how to turn an unordered list into a professional photograph gallery for Web Reference. I can’t wait to try this one out. Be sure to check out his site, he has so many wonderful CSS goodies there. Can I go home now so I can play?

I have encouraged you all to look into using an RSS Feed Reader to keep up with your favorite web development blogs. I have mentioned various RSS feed readers, including Bloglines, in previous posts. Betterdays has a great article on Using Bloglines (or How to keep up with dozens of blogs everyday).