Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

For those of you who haven’t visited the CSS Zen Garden, visit now. It contains beautiful examples of the power of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). There are six new April designs as of 4/16 for those of you who visit often. After looking at the beauty of the Garden, take a look at this spoof on the Garden, a perfect [...]

It’s a very interesting day in the world of design and web publishing Adobe announced that they will aquire Macromedia for an obscene amount of money. You can read more about this 3.4 billion dollar “integration” deal at Adobe’s web site. Macromedia also has a press release on their site; I found this press release more enlightening. It looks like [...]

Working Smart has an excellent article on the Lost Art of Note-Taking. I am a firm believer in the benefits of taking notes, especially in class. I find that when I’m in a classroom situation taking notes helps me to digest the material being presented; even if I never look at the notes again, the act of writing down the [...]

The assignment sheet for the new Photoshop book, Exploring Photoshop CS, is complete. You can find the assignment sheet and additional information on this book on the class web at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/webdes/photoshopcs.htm. The assignment sheet for the new Illustrator book, Exploring Illustrator CS, is complete. You can find the assignment sheet and additional information on this book on the class web [...]

CSS Drive is a categorized CSS gallery and examples. There are some really wonderful examples of sites designed with CSS on this site. The Early Bird Catches the CSS: Planning Structural HTML – an excellent article on writing structural HTML. What I really liked about the article was the table at the bottom of the page that displayed HTML attributes [...]

You may have noticed that a lot of web sites have a small icon next to their URL in the address bar; this icon/image is called a FavIcon. You can create your own FavIcon with a photo/logo or any graphic at FavIcons from Pics. From the opening page, browse to the file you want to convert to a FavIcon. Once [...]

I ran across TechSupportAlert which has a list of the 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities. TechSupportAlert also has an extensive list of freeware/shareware sites. TechSupportAlert has a lot of great, free information; be sure to check out the rest of the site. Free is so good! Of course there are lots of freeware sites out there, one of my favorites is [...]

Print and review the welcome to class letter (Word document format), this contains a lot of helpful information about class. Visit and explore the classroom web site at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/. The classroom web site includes all of the assignment sheets, project information, and other relevant class materials. Visit and explore http://www.tinkertech.net/. Here you will find tutorials related to class and helpful [...]

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 [...]