Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

For the next 14 days you can download the book The Art and Science of CSS for free (a $30.00 value). You can access this terrific free offer at SitePoint’s Web site.
Once you submit your personal email address you will be sent a link to download the Zip file (23mb). Please DO NOT print this book in class. [...]

This is a summarized explanation of Photoshop’s Tools palette with a short and to the point description of each tool’s functions and shortcuts. This is a great tutorial for novice Photoshop users, as well as professional advanced users who would like to brush up on their Photoshop Tools knowledge.
Continue reading Photoshop Basic Tools Overview

Photoshop users have the opportunity to drastically improve productivity and efficiency by gaining a solid understanding of the Photoshop tools, the capabilities of the program, and by learning some handy shortcuts.
This article looks at more than thirty useful resources for getting more out of less time when working with Photoshop. There are a few different collections of keyboard shortcuts, guides [...]

Naming convention in CSS coding is an “hot” discussion topic. In this post I want to illustrate some suggestions and guidelines to use a semantic approach instead of a structural approach in naming CSS classes, analyzing the essential elements of a popular 3 column layout.
Continue reading CSS coding: semantic approach in naming convention

Six Revisions has an excellent list of cheat sheets for Web developers.
Check out the Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers

Working with CSS can seem like a constant battle. Browsers are always changing they way they read the code (*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*), and it seems that there are lots of tiny little CSS “gotchas”. While it’s an incredibly powerful language, it can easily be used incorrectly, which will doom your development to a lifetime of imperfections.
Continue reading Are You [...]

Before you can create Photoshop masterworks, you need to learn the basics. Even the most complex digital artworks are built on a foundation of simple actions. These 50 tutorials are aimed at the clever beginner who wants to master Photoshop from the roots.
Check out the 50 Great Photoshop Tutorials for Clever Beginners

These days, CSS development is a complex process. You may be working on sites with large CSS files, multiple developers ,and long development timelines. The more complex your CSS files become, the more difficult it is to work with them. This article will present some tips and tricks for keeping your CSS files organized and easy to work with.
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Learning to create Web sites that are search engine friendly is extremely important. Google now offers a 22 page SEO (search engine optimization) Starters Guide to help you with this process. This is an easy to understand guide that should give you a good foundation for creating pages that are search engine friendly. I will print copies of this [...]

A great article from Smashing Magazine on keeping your HTML/XHTML code clean. It’s best to establish good coding habits now while you are learning.
Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I teach people about CSS, I always begin by telling them that good CSS can only exist with equally good HTML markup. A house is only as [...]