Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Due to negative student feedback, I have selected a new book for the JavaScript unit. We will now use JavaScript The Missing Manual, which includes more hands-on tutorials and was written by David Sawyer McFarland, the author of CSS The Missing Manual. Hopefully, students will be pleased with the new JavaScript unit – the explanations seem clearer and there are [...]

To be a web designer means to have a flexible professionalism that enables to make a project, to create a design respecting and reflecting the customers needs. Obviously each web designer has his own method and preferred tools. However there are some programs that can not be excluded in creating a web design. Photoshop is one of these programs. Continue [...]

There are plenty of open source applications that can help you tremendously as a web designer. Open source projects are great not only because of their price tag (free), but also because of the passionate community that typically forms around them. In these economic times, it’s often a worthwhile endeavor to see places where you can conserve, and open source [...]

Graphic designers are always in a battle to create the best looking results in the least amount of time. Constantly trying to make these gorgeous, polished designs without spending an eternity creating them usually requires using some pre-built elements — things like photoshop brushes, illustrator patterns, textures, etc… In this list, we’ve compiled some of the best brushes, patterns, textures, [...]

Website builders have been gaining more popularity and traction lately, thanks to services such as Wix and Webnode. These online website creators allow you to create a full website, free of charge, directly in your browser without any prior knowledge of website development. Many of these services also offer premium packages with additional features, for a small cost per month, [...]

We Web designers are a fickle lot. We love to experiment with things. We love to observe how people interact with our work. And we love to try out unusual design approaches that might possibly go mainstream and become a classic approach. As result, new design approaches come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use [...]

By the time you complete the ROP Web Design and Development Program you should have created several live Web sites to share with employers via projects that are required during the course. Web Designers/Developers, artists, and photographers create Web-based portfolios to showcase their work. You may find it difficult to get started creating your own portfolio, so here are some [...]

Photoshop has tons of potential for improving photos in one way or another. No matter how much experience you have with Photoshop there is probably more that you can learn in these areas. This is a categorized collection of tutorials that will show you some new tricks for photo touch-ups. Continue reading 60 Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Touch-Ups

Web designers know that the industry involves plenty of change, and continuous adaption and development of skills is required in order to stay up to date. In the past few years, one of the biggest areas of change has been the amount of Internet users who are accessing websites via phones and mobile devices. As a result, Web designers have [...]

cPanel is a Web based control panel for your hosting account that has many tools to help you easily maintain your Web site. Without cPanel you would have to use Telnet, a command line interface, to manage daily tasks on your Web site – this would mean learning Unix/Unix-like commands. With cPanel’s graphical tools you can change your account password, [...]