Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I thought I would start posting a few Paint Shop Pro resources. Here are a few tutorial sites that I have found that offer tutorials for version 9 of Paint Shop Pro: Pixel2Life.com – an extensive list of categorized links to Paint Shop Pro tutorials. This site also offers tutorials on numerous subjects related to web design. I really liked [...]

I’m very torn right now. My first web site, Robin’s Paint Shop Pro Resources @ putertutor.net has fallen into a state of disrepair. The content is dated, links are broken, and the design needs a major overhaul. Over the last couple of months I’ve toyed with the idea of updating and overhauling, but I haven’t really had the time or [...]

As you can see, the class blog has a new design! David Rice was kind enough to create several terrific mock designs with graphics. Last night I coded the CSS to work with WordPress and got everything working. David, thank you so much for all of your hard work, I’m thrilled! I still have a few more CSS tweaks to [...]

Graphic Design USA has published their third annual Visual Trends Report for 2005. This report discusses the trends in logo design and mentions Logo Lounge, another site worth visiting.. The Annual Color Forecast is also very informative. SitePoint has a new article on Creating a WireFrame of your site during the planning phases. I would recommend that you all read [...]

In Part I of this series we discussed Snippets in Dreamweaver. This article discusses how to use and create snippets in HomeSite+, a popular HTML editor by Macromedia. Yesterday we discussed some basics of HomeSite. Today we will learn to use and create snippets in HomeSite to further automate the web development process. Open HomeSite. From the Resource Tabs select [...]

Yes, it’s true Macromedia has it’s own HTML/XHTML editor called HomeSite. We have not been using it in class because we had issues with getting it to run on our network. It’s working now and it’s an excellent editor, so I would like to encourage all of you to take a look at HomeSite. You can access HomeSite in class [...]

I needed to find a free file sharing service so that I could bring some files home with me from work. Unfortunately, my CD drive isn’t working on my piece-o-crap Averatec Tablet and I forgot my USB drive at home. I found some recommended resources at About.com and ended up signing up for a 30 day trial account FilesAnywhere.com. The [...]

AIGA and Aquent have conducted their annual design salary survey for 2005. You can use this salary calculator to get an idea of the current salary ranges in the design field by geographic region. There is also a list of position definitions/descriptions.

Snippets are small blocks of reusable code. For example, a doctype statement is used at the top of every XHTML document. Instead of retyping the doctype statement, a snippet can be created that contains this statement and reused in all future XHTML documents. Most web development applications have the ability to create and use snippets. Using and Creating Snippets in [...]

This morning on the KRON news I saw two shopping search engines that you may find useful: Cairo helps you to find the best deal in town. Enter your zip code and the item that you’re looking to buy and Cairo will search for sales in your area for that item. It will even display a thumbnail of the newspaper [...]