Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

It can be tough to build pages that work for all viewers. Sooner or later you’ll need to deal with the issue of different browsers showing your lovely pages in different ways. Cross-browser testing is essential to making sure your pages work right, yet it can be a tough load. Installing multiple browsers on your own computer is only the [...]

Smashing Magazine has pulled together a list of the best Photoshop tutorials. There are over 25 tutorials and sites for you to check out. DesignWalker also has a roundup of Photoshop text effect tutorials. Coliss.com has a collection of links to free Photoshop brushes that you can download and use. PSDtuts has loads of Photoshop tutorials for you to try [...]

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Continue reading 8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make at Wake Up Later.

Smashing Magazine offers another great roundup of 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the [...]

The Web Developers Field Guide has always been a terrific one-stop-shop for Web development resources. Definitely a site worth bookmarking whether you’re looking for inspiration or Ajax resources.

SitePoint has a new CSS Reference site that you may find useful. It includes the following topics: What Is CSS? General Syntax and Nomenclature At-rules Reference Selector Reference The Cascade, Specificity, and Inheritance CSS Layout and Formatting Box Properties Layout Properties List Properties Table Properties Color and Backgrounds Typographical Properties Generated Content User Interface Properties Paged Media Properties Vendor-specific Properties [...]

Rolland had asked about contract for Web designers and developers last week and I just came across this roundup of Graphic Designer Contracts Agreements Forms & Web Designers Contracts. Contracts and forms for designers are an important part of any design business. No matter if you are a graphic designer or web designer, a solid contract or good pre-project questionnaire [...]