Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I have made a change to the blog archives. It is common for blogs to only display “excerpts” of posts in the archives. In order to see the entire post you have to click the post title. I think this has been a bit confusing for new bloggers who use this site. Now when you use one of the category [...]

These are a few general notes on XHTML and CSS for my Macromedia presentation today. My presentation today really confirmed my belief that before attempting to use Dreamweaver or any other HTML editor it’s important to have a basic knowledge of HTML/XHTML and CSS. Before the invention of Dreamweaver, FrontPage, GoLive and the other popular web page creation tools, most [...]

Hi All! I am in Surrey, BC. I got in about 1:30 p.m. and was taken straight to the high school, Guildford Park Secondary, that I will be presenting at tomorrow morning and Saturday. David, you were right, the Vancouver Airport is gorgeous! I’m thinking about a nap, this travel stuff wipes me out. Tomorrow after my presentation I’m going [...]

Ha, you thought you were rid of me! I should be on a plane right now on my way to Canada. Rebecca asked for more resources on learning elements of design; ask and ye shall receive (sometimes). Jill Niles gathered a lot of wonderful art and design resources for your review. The Web Style Guide is a wonderful resource about [...]

Color in Motion – you must go see this! It’s an interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism created in Flash. WhiteSpace has an article on Learning CSS that outlines the why, where and how to learn CSS. The Return of Design – articles, color schemes, resources, and links galore! Combobulate has a list of 76 cool programs that [...]

I’ve written a new tutorial for Fireworks an image editing program by Macromedia. I’m hearing a lot of sighs of frustration in class, so I thought we should take a break and have a little fun and learn how to create some simple graphics.

Anita shared this link to Gas Buddy. It’s a service to check high and low gas prices. Thanks, Anita!

I just wanted to remind you all that CSS Reboot is happening this Sunday, May 1st. If you get a chance, check out the participants listed on the site today or tomorrow. Write down your current favorites (you may even want to print the front page of their site) so you can visit their site again after May 1st to [...]

Check this out! It’s an image to CSS converter. So cool! If you don’t have an image to use here in class, use this one for now http://www.crabbytalk.com/wp-content/monstereyes.jpg Of course I came right home and started playing with this. While I think it’s an amazing utility, I don’t forsee it being particulary useful at this time. The source code generated [...]

Many of you have been working on creating your own CSS layouts. When developing these layouts you must decide whether to use floats vs. absolute or relative positioning. I thought I would post a few articles that may help with the decision making process: 456 Berea St. – Fixed or fluid width? Elastic! InformitIT – Integrated Web Design: Position This! [...]