Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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Now you can see all of the presentations that you may have missed or couldn’t afford online. What a deal!
See these presentations at MacWorld Encore.

Eric Meyer has posted his reset styles CSS for the public on his blog. The CSS will help you to reduce browser inconsistencies like different margins, padding and line height. It’s a good idea to use a reset CSS file any time you are creating a new site or page.
Check out the reset styles CSS.

Noupe.com has created a small showcase of more than 70 outstanding header graphics with excellent use of visual elements and interface design. This is an excellent example of current trends in Web development.
Take a look at this article @ http://www.noupe.com/design/70-visually-impressing-header-graphics.html

Sometimes it is just worlds easier watching a tutorial than reading it, and the Internet has made video tutorials of all kinds very available. Photoshop tutorials are especially popular due to the complexity of the popular program.
Continue reading 20+ Photoshop Video Tutorials.

Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well [...]

Imagine that you are designing an online-store. Since stakeholders are only interested in the number of sells, the success of your work directly depends on how well you manage to drive users to the “Checkout”-button. In this case you might want to consider some design approaches which will set you apart from your competitors. After all, the probability that they’ve [...]

As with everything in life, it can be very helpful to know NOT what to do just as much as what to do! If you’re new to job hunting, you’ve probably been reading about how to act during a job interview. You should also be studying how not to act.
If there’s a common complaint among many hiring agents and human [...]

Vandelay Web Site Design has compiled a list of 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites. In addition to screen captures of each site, there are links to the original sites so you can check them out.

For Chris and the other Mac users in class – Top 100 Essential Mac Applications

Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of [...]