Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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 out.

Bittbox has [...]

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 design [...]

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
Workarounds, Filters, and Hacks
Differences Between HTML and XHTML
Alphabetic Property Index

If you haven’t checked out the rest [...]

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 can [...]

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 [...]