Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I have mentioned in previous posts that I have been having a lot of trouble with comment, trackback , and referrer spam on my blogs, especially my photo blog. The referrer reports are really worthless on tinkertech.net because the referrer spam has gotten so bad. While I thought I had blocked trackback spam on my blogs, it started flooding my [...]

Since many of you are now creating external style sheets, I thought I would post some CSS cheat sheets and reference materials to help you with some of the properties and values used in CSS. You may want to add these to your Del.icio.us links or print them out. I Love Jack Daniels – CSS Cheat Sheet Most Useful CSS [...]

There are several useful online search tools/services that you should familarize yourself with. These tools will help you to find a lot of content related to web development. Del.icio.us – Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking system. What exactly does that mean? Instead of using Favorites in IE or Bookmarks in Firefox, your bookmarks are stored online and available to other [...]

PC Magazine has a short article on how to upsample your images. Good techniques if you need to increase the size of a jpeg image for printing. Top 7 Tricks For Getting an Interview includes some interesting suggestions for how to get an interview. Since most of you are currently looking for employment, you may want to take a look. [...]

Supplement to Tutorial 3 – HTML and XHTML by Patrick Carey I’m frustrated with parts of the HTML and XHTML book by Patrick Carey that we are currently using in class. I could switch books, but it’s difficult to find a book that combines all of the building blocks of web design, XHTML, CSS, some JavaScript, and is comprehensive enough [...]

My copy of Bulletproof Web Design was waiting for me when I got home last night and at first glance it looks wonderful. It’s packed with CSS techniques by Dan Cederholm. The book is in color with lots of color screen captures. I’m sure that this one will be added to my list of books worth buying and I can’t [...]

The Jackol’s Den has an htaccess cheat sheet that you may want to print and add to your resources. You can learn more about other ways the .htaccess file is used in the article Server Move. The .htaccess file can be used to prevent hotlinking as discussed in class yesterday. Speaking of cheat sheets, Code by Matt, has cheat sheets [...]

I don’t know if you guys watch KRON TV in the morning, but our very own Yvonne was on TV this morning…or was that Marilyn Monroe?

Well, I was reading my referrer reports because I have been having issues with referrer log spam. I was inspecting my logs because I plan to implement some of the tactics that I read at Ed Costello. I found this web site http://oraculo.blog.com/blog/jinigirl/2005/5/ in my logs and ALL of the content on the page was stolen from my site http://www.tinkertech.net. [...]

There are two books that I would like to recommend to all of my students: Web Designer’s Reference Web Standards Solutions These are both excellent books for learning about XHTML, CSS, and building standards compliant web sites. I have found that they are both very easy to read and provide a wealth of information to the new web developer. Web [...]