Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Do you want to see what people are viewing and bookmarking right this minute? Checkout LiveMarks – which displays what people are bookmarking on Del.icio.us in real-time. This is another Ajax demonstration. Pretty slick!

Next Up: Google Office? An interesting article on the possible joint venture of Sun and Google.
Treehouse, an online developer’s magazine, is now available. This first issue is free to all! (This is a 50+ page PDF file, please do not print it in the classroom.)
If you have an iPod, you may want to check out [...]

As I’ve mentioned in class, I’m working on recruiting more students for the program. I’ve posted ads at Craigslist, Contra Costa Times Online, Backpage, SF Guardian, Bay Area Classifieds, and SFGate. I have not received the overwhelming response that I had hoped for, but it’s still early in the game.
I got to thinking about Google Maps and the [...]

Jakob Nielsen shares the Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005. This is a compilation of web design annoyances submitted by his readers; all of these issues deal with usability. The really nice thing about this article is that links to other articles that address the issues are provided; you’re not just left wondering how to fix or [...]

Yesterday I mentioned that Rachel Andrew has a new book available at SitePoint titled Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website Using Dreamweaver 8. I just wanted to let you all know that you can download a sample chapter of this book at SitePoint, it’s 130+ pages. Please don’t print this in class; if you [...]

Photoshop Elements 4.0 releases this week. You can read more at the NY Times or at Adobe’s web site.
Phong.com has a variety of Photoshop tutorials including advanced techniques like masking, patterns, and photo stitching.
Have you heard about BackPack yet? With Backpack you can:
Organize to do lists, notes, images, and photos Plan a personal or business trip [...]

This web site is a compilation of daily class lecture notes and resources for the students in the Regional Occupational Program’s Web Page Design Program. The class offers low-cost, web development training to adults and high school students who are 16 years or older.
Classes are $45.00 for a nine-week session (books are purchased separately). Students may [...]

Yesterday I decided to update the look of the site. I had several concerns about the old site layout:

The blue on blue was just too blue. I didn’t feel that there was enough contrast between the text and the background. A darker text color (like black) is easier to read on a white background.
The old layout did [...]

A List Apart (ALA) has a new article, CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists, that discusses how to create multiple column ordered and unordered lists. A List Apart also has another new article, Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module. I would recommend this article to students who have experimented with CSS columns and who are interested in what future [...]

The Essential Web-Dev-Bookmarks have been updated. This is a terrific resource for everyone!
If you are using Firefox a lot, you may find this list of Firefox shortcut keys useful.
Ever feel overwhelmed by email? Michael Angier’s article Top Ten Ways to Handle Email Overload may help.
How Google Works – an easy to understand overview of how [...]