Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I’ve come across some new (well new to me) Firefox extensions that I thought you might find helpful: del.icio.us – the del.icio.us extension for Firefox offers everything you need to seamlessly integrate the del.icio.us service with your Firefox browser. This is very handy if you use del.icio.us to keep track of your favorite web sites. SessionSaver – I love this [...]

I wanted to share some search engine optimization resources with you. As you’re writing content and coding you must take search engine optimization into account; it does no good to create a beautiful site if nobody can find it. These articles will give you a good foundation for creating pages that are search engine friendly. You should see some common [...]

The subject of email design comes up quite a bit in class. I thought you might find this article Email Design Guidelines for 2006 helpful.

CSS Intensivstation offers several XHTML and CSS templates for you to use. There are also 15 CSS short How-to articles and links to other resources. MaxDesign also offers numerous sample CSS page layouts. You may also want to check out their presentations and articles. Template:css – this site provides links to numerous CSS templates. Screen captures of each of the [...]

When I met with our advisory committee earlier in the month we discussed teaching JavaScript in the web development program. Unfortunately, our course has a limited duration and we just can’t teach it all (don’t I wish). Since our course is designed to teach students entry-level web development skills I feel that we cannot delve too deeply into JavaScript. I [...]

CSS Font and Text Style Wizard – a wizard to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code. You may also like the HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard. Both of these wizards will generate CSS and HTML code for your web pages. 5 Great Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop – this article/tutorial outlines [...]

The Favourite Website Awards was established in 2000 to showcase the latest and best cutting edge web sites. The sites showcased are considered “future thinking and progressively designed sites that feature cutting edge technologies”. These sites typically employ Flash designs and some may require the Flash 8 player.

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Designing a Rainbow – Sexy Hot Colors – Lorelle on WordPress has a wonderful roundup of color resources on her blog today. Yummy! graphicPUSH offers a Blog Icon Pack, a set of free icons for your blog [...]

Yesterday I encouraged you all to read the article Fixing Browsers: Bugs and Hacks by Lorelle VanFossen. Lorelle was kind enough to share another article she wrote, Views of a Web Page. In this article, Lorelle describes in wonderful detail the testing process used when building a web page. The article discusses developing and testing for various screen sizes, handhelds, [...]

Checking Sites for Consistency One of the really tough parts of web development is getting your site layout consistent in multiple browsers on multiple platforms (Windows (98, 2000, XP), Macintosh, Linux, etc.), with different resolutions when you’re using CSS. You must ensure that your site looks good in various versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, and Konqueror [...]