Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

We will explore CPanel, your hosting account control panel, today. CPanel gives you total control of your hosting account via a Web interface. The following tasks can be completed with CPanel:

Setup mail accounts and read email via the Web
Change your account password
Park a domain
Add FTP accounts
Manage your online files and permissions – upload files
Check your disk space usage
Make [...]

To follow-up on our workshops Monday and Wednesday here are some tutorials for using FTP.
Using Dreamweaver to FTP
Using WS_FTP
Filezilla Documentation – Remember to use your own settings and you do not need to use passive mode.
FileZilla Basic Tutorial

I wanted to post our schedule for the next week.
Thursday, 1/16/08 – Antioch
Friday, 1/17/08 – MacWorld – There will be no class in Antioch
Monday, 1/21/08 – Holiday – No school
Tuesday, 1/22/08 – Antioch
Wednesday, 1/23/08 – County Office of Education, Pleasant Hill
Thursday, 1/24/08 – Antioch
Friday, 1/25/08 – OneStop Center, Concord
The most recent calendar can be found here.

MacWorld was much larger this year than last; there were about 100 more exhibitors this year. With registration being so time consuming, it was difficult to see the entire show. We have permission to attend MacWorld again this Friday, 1/19/08. There will be no class in Antioch.

Now is a great time to learn about Adobe Fireworks, an image editor originally produced by Macromedia. I thought I would post descriptions of all of the tools used in Fireworks and some tutorials.

Tool Panel
Tool
Expanded Tool

Selection tools – Used to select and alter existing objects

SubSelection Tool – Use this tool to select items that are hidden behind other objects

Tools [...]

We went to MacWorld today and I think I saw about a third of it and I want more……I would like to go back on Friday to see the rest, what do you all think?

There is a terrific list of freeware software for Web designers over at TechnoTarget. There are descriptions and screen captures of each application.
Smashing Magazine has links to 100 Excellent WordPress Free Themes including a screen capture for each theme. You should definitely bookmark this site since we discussed WordPress yesterday and will work with it [...]

Students enrolled in the ROP Web Development program with me may again sign up for free hosting. This offer is ONLY available for students currently enrolled in my program.
Important Information Before You Sign Up

You must be CURRENTLY ENROLLED in the ROP Web Development class with Robin Wood. Your account will NOT be approved if you are not an ROP [...]

We will attend MacWorld at Moscone Center in San Francisco as a class on Tuesday, January 15, 2008. The hours for MacWorld on Tuesday are 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. I plan to arrive at 11:00 a.m. and will be in the registration area. If I don’t see you there, I hope to see you somewhere in the [...]

Today we will explore how to setup a simple blog. The beauty of using a blog to create a Web site is that they are easy to maintain, design, and update content. We will explore several different blogging systems that are hosted on third party sites. The beauty of using a free blog host is that you don’t [...]