Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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 [...]

Recently I joined CommunityMx, which is a community that supports and maintains high quality, fresh Macromedia web development articles, tutorials, and extensions. I have debated over the last year about whether to join this community (it’s not free, they charge a monthly fee) and finally decided to join after finding out that almost all of the PositionIsEverything content had been [...]

If you are interested in learning the current trends in browser usage, operating systems, and screen resolutions, the W3Schools maintains a Browser Statistics page that tracks these statistics by month. The W3Schools has so much great content be sure to check out the rest of the site during your visit.