Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Just a few class resources that new students should be aware of: Information about class resources including: Job search, class procedures, holidays, session dates, attendance, file management, book discounts, software discounts, and ergonomics can be found by visiting the course home page at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us and clicking the link named Current Students in the orange menu bar. Check the online version [...]

It is very important for you to develop an understanding of designing for handhelds. The book that we are currently using in class is rather “sparse” on the subject. I have pulled together some resources for handheld devices and CSS. Stylesheets for handheld devices The End-All Guide to Small-Screen Web-Dev Mobile Web Design ~ The Series Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your [...]

Welcome new students! We all hope that you will enjoy the program. There are a couple of articles that I would like you to read today: Important Notes for Students Starting the XHTML Book HTML Character Entities Now for some goodies from around the web: Tracy shared a great resource with me for used books, Abebooks. The prices are terrific [...]

On Monday, November 7, 2005 we held our semi-annual advisory committee meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to allow members of industry to review our curriculum and offer suggestions for improvement. Our advisers were Jim Espinoza, the original webmaster for Hotmail, now a consultant and Tony Davis a developer and illustrator. One of my major concerns was the amount [...]

Happy Monday everyone! Today we have new student orientation and an advisory committee meeting. Yikes! I would like to ask that you help each other, as I will be pretty tied up with both events. Here are a few web sites to visit while I’m helping our new classmates to get started: Website Layout Cookbook – A visual reference for [...]

I encourage you to use CSS instead of tables for your XHTML Additional Cases and projects. Creating a multi-column layout with CSS is not always easy. The first thing you should do is determine how you want your page or pages to layout on paper before you ever begin coding (I will really appreciate this when I am helping you!). [...]

Food and Drink Lately, our room has been looking more like a cafeteria than a classroom; food and drink items are being left all over the room. It’s like a treasure hunt when I do mine final class inspection at closing. I was disturbed last night when I found a large drink next to the classroom projector; the other day [...]

Mani Sheriar, a former student and successful designer, has started a blog to accompany her beautiful site. Mani offers CSS and XHTML tips and discussion on her site designs. This is definately a site that you want to watch, I’m sure she’ll be a constant source of amazement for all of you! For you Scott Kelby fans there is now [...]

Position is Everything, a tremendous resource on CSS and standards development, has several new articles available: CSS Hacks and IE7 In Search of the One True Layout On Having Layout Issue 206 is available at ALA, A List Apart. It contains another two article that are worth reading: Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign and Attack of the Zombie Copy. [...]

Dustin Diaz has put together a very nice CSS Shorthand Guide. What’s nice about this guide is that it includes the default value for the property values so you don’t have to guess at what will display if you don’t include a value in your shorthand. CSS Selectors, Part 3 is now available at 456 Berea Street! Here are the [...]