Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Searchfreefonts.com is a huge font site with no pop-ups. You can search for fonts or browse font categories. Dave Shea has put his notes and slide presentation on How to be Beautiful: More Hi-Fi Design With CSS from his panel discussion at SXSW. The slide presentation is amazing! Fawny, Joe Clark’s personal blog, also has some notes on the same [...]

Checky – “Easy to use interface to many free and commercial Online Validation and Analysis Services. Validate and analyse HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, WAI, Section 508, P3P, Hyperlinks, Metadata and many more.” Web Color Names – Is a color table extension that includes hex values, rgb values, and color names. You can sort the table by color or [...]

I was just watching the news and there was an interview with a securities expert/author (aka hacker) who has recently written a book on how Google is used to hack. He has a Google Hacking Database on his site. You may want to visit this site to learn how your sensitive information could be at risk.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Dithered.com has a huge listing of CSS filters and hacks. The site includes browser support tables, non-validating hacks, and links to additional information on each hack. This is another site worth bookmarking. Andy Budd & Jeremy Keith have a great “CSS slideshow” on How to Bluff Your Way in CSS. This is from their presentation at [...]

The following books are in stock in the classroom: CSS Anthology 101 Essential Tips, Tricks, and Hacks (15 copies)- $28.00 Dreamweaver MX 2004 The Missing Manual (4 copies) – $25.00 Flash Hacks (1 copy) – $18.00 Dreamweaver in a Nutshell (1 copy) – $22.00 Please complete a receipt form to order books.

If you are a student in my class you are probably learning that the CSS styles that you are writing may look good in Internet Explorer (Windows), but not in Firefox/Opera and visa-versa. At times you may have to use what are referred to as “hacks” in your CSS code to get your site to look good across all browsers. [...]

I have become concerned lately with the amount of time spent on job search activities in class. While I understand the most students’ number one priority is finding a job, I fear that job search activities are interfering with completing the course curriculum. I want to be flexible and allow students to work on job search activities in class, but [...]

The 2005 Bloggie winners have been announced. You can see the best of the best at http://2005.bloggies.com/

del.icio.us is a social bookmark manager. Just what the heck does that mean? Well, you can store your bookmarks online, share them with others, and browse other user’s bookmarks. It’s a “social” system because you can see what other people are bookmarking and they can see what you bookmark. del.icio.us integrates nicely with WordPress; the Del.icio.us Integrator plugin allows the [...]

Scriptygoddess has wonderful scripts for WordPress, MovableType and PHP in general. Be sure to check the site archives to see what other goodies are available. While I’m on the subject of WordPress, here are a few other WordPress resources you may want to visit: WordPress Codex – Lists WordPress plugins, tutorials, themes, hacks and other useful information related to managing [...]