Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Exciting news!!! We have finished connecting our server and all of our workstations at the ROP Pleasant Hill Training Center. We will be open for classes beginning tomorrow, January 29, 2008 at 12:15 p.m. The 4:15 p.m. class will also resume tomorrow – YAY!
The room is beautiful, clean and very spacious. All of the [...]

Good news, our move to the Pleasant Hill Executive Park is on schedule. We hope that we will have classes running in Pleasant Hill as early as next Tuesday, January 29, 2008. Please check here for further updates. I will post on Monday evening or Tuesday morning to let you all know if we get all of [...]

I went over to the new classroom today and it’s looking FABULOUS!!!!!!!! It seems so spacious! Here is a photo.

OK, here is one more.

My iPhone photos really don’t do the room justice.
I have a little slide presentation with more photos to show tomorrow at the OneStop. If you can’t make it to the OneStop you [...]

I found some excellent articles at Chromatic Sites Web Technology on developing professional Web sites that I think all of the Web development students should read.
The first article focuses on the process of great Web design and details the three stages: conceptualization and planning, modeling, and execution.

The process of web design can be compared to the process of writing a [...]

Noupe has a wonderful roundup of 101 CSS techniques.

CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right.
Today we are presenting a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close look [...]

Michael purchased Adobe Creative Suite at MacWorld. He was kind enough to contact Creation Engine about extending the discount pricing and they are continuing their show special until January 31, 2008. You will need to have a student ID that you can fax or email to them after you place your order.
Details are at http://www.creationengine.com/macworld2008

Smashing Magazine has pulled together a list of the best Flash tutorials. There are over 25 tutorials and sites for you to check out.

drweb.de has a nice collection of 35 free fonts that you can download for your graphic projects.

Check out Splashup, an online image editor and creator. This is a Web based image editor, no software installation is required. With Splashup you can even create and edit images with multiple layers. This online image editor even has filters and layer effects. Splashup can be used to create Web graphics and/or to edit digital photos. Splashup is very [...]

Internet Explorer 6 isn’t perfect, far from it, but unfortunately while the user base for the outdated browser is still high, it’s in our best interest as designers and website owners to ensure that our sites work correctly for the majority if not all of our users.
There are bugs and problems with Internet Explorer 6 (and even IE7) but you [...]