Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Quick Start Your Design with XHTML Templates – Just like the title says, a set of templates to help you to start web projects. PhotoshopSupport.com has a lot of quick tutorials and nice plugins and actions for Photoshop. Since we’ve been talking about digital photography, LifeHack has a Digital Photography HOWTO roundup of helpful links to resources and tutorials. LifeHacker [...]

Norman and I were discussing photography and the pro’s and con’s of shooting images in RAW mode. Most digital cameras output the images in JPEG format; this means that the camera processes the image in order to convert it to the JPEG format; this process often leads to a degradation of quality. When shooting in RAW mode, your chances of [...]

HTML Basix has some code generators that you may find useful. I found this Htaccess Disable Hotlinking Code Generator particularly helpful. Web Developer’s Handbook has many useful web design links. A page worth bookmarking. Photoblog 2.0 – digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs: Harold Davis. Lots of tips, resources, and beautiful photos. Be sure to check out the rest of the [...]

Stu Nichols, CSS Playground, has a new demonstration for creating sliding photo galleries, very cool! Take a look at his demonstration list for more terrific CSS techniques. Some students explored one of Stu Nichols’ tutorials How to Create a Photographic Gallery Using CSS with terrific results. Take a look at the following galleries: Marcia Donna Here are a couple more [...]

Just the other day I was looking around for information on creating a business plan. I know that some of you are interested in starting your own businesses, so you may find this Guide To Writing A Business Plan useful. Patterns In essence, patterns are structural and behavioral features that improve the “habitability” of something — a user interface, a [...]

I just wanted to thank you all for the birthday wishes. We had a wonderful trip. Rob took me and our best friends to Tahoe for the weekend. We rented a home there rather than staying in the casinos. The place that we rented was AWESOME. This is the small creek/river that ran behind our home, you can see the [...]