Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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 [...]

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 easy [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.