Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

If you have created a blog here in class you may now be facing comment spam. WordPress has filters and options to protect your blog against comment spam (found in Options > Discussion), but I thought you may find this article on how to stop comment spam from SitePoint interesting. While we’re on the subject of spam, Georgia had mentioned [...]

My Blogger presentation went very well this morning. I had an issue with my laptop, I left it on the roof of the car, but no real damage was done. The presentation itself went really well, I would say I had 55-60 participants. My favorite evaluation comment was “YOU ROCK!”. How cool is that? Another instructor came to me after [...]

I have been collecting some sites to share with you all, but it seems that everyday I find something else that I want to post. These sites have been open in my Firefox browser and it’s time to free up some resources. Since today is the last day of class for so many, I thought it would be best if [...]

PimpMySafari is a Safari Extension site (Plugins, Bookmarklets) created by Jon Hicks.

MaxDesign has a web standards checklist that you should bookmark and print. It includes a basic checklist of items that should be included and checked on every web site that you create. It also has more detailed information on each item along with links to sites where you can research the topic in more detail. A PDF version of this [...]

Bernadette asked me today if there was a book that listed all of the CSS properties and of course there are, but why don’t we save some money. Instead check out Brian Wilson’s CSS Property Index at Index dot CSS, it’s quite comprehensive (including CSS properties, values and browser support) and a must bookmark! This site can help you with [...]

On page HTML 361 of your XHTML book it discusses contextual selectors and selector patterns. I found a really good article by Adrian Senior on CSS Selectors: Pattern Matching and Inheritance that does a great job of explaning the document tree, the relationship between elements, and how to define CSS tules based on those relationships.

Robin Good has a great article on Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles which includes links to some excellent free stock image sites including stock.xchng. He also has a review of a free digital image editor called Photofiltre that looks really interesting and worth a download. A CSS Rounded Box Generator anyone? Cameron [...]

Adobe CS2 is now available to order at Academic Superstore. The product will not actually ship until late April. If you recently purchased any Adobe CS product, you should check with the vendor to see if you qualify for a free upgrade!

I wrote this article several months ago, but we were discussing spyware in class today so I thought I would add it to the blog. Please add any useful tools (with a link) you may have used to help combat spyware to the comments section. Spyware Tools What is spyware? Spyware is bits of software that helps a company gather [...]