Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

This Saturday I will be presenting at the California Association of Regional Occupational Centers and Programs. I have been asked to present a workshop on creating a simple instructional web site for teachers. I’ve done this type of workshop in the past, but I usually use Dreamweaver or whatever software I’m asked to use to create this type of site. [...]

CSS Reboot “is a community project that brings together web professionals from all over and encourages them to collectively launch redesigns of their sites on May 1st.” You can see the participants in this exciting project here. AListApart has a couple of new articles that you may find interesting, Hybrid CSS Dropdowns and Spruced Up Site Maps. Mezzoblue has a [...]

I have to start by saying that the Site-in-an-hour exercise was one of the most valuable lessons that I have completed in a long time. I really learned a lot. I forgot to include several images in the img folder; please copy the siteinanhour folder to your user directory again. Here’s what you should do: Type the XHTML code in [...]

Just a reminder, tomorrow we will working on the Site-in-an-Hour exercise. There are a few things you should do before class: Print and read the presentation. You should also read the associated links on the presentation. If you send the first page of the presentation to the printer, the entire presentation will print. Print and review the source code of [...]

There are times that you may want to use a font in a graphic program without installing it to your system. Having too many installed fonts uses valuable system resources and slows down your computer. Fonts are installed in the folder C:\Windows\Fonts (winnt\fonts on some systems). While MS says you can have as many as 1,000 installed fonts, you may [...]

I have encouraged all of you to download and install some of the powerful extensions that are available for Firefox. Did you know that you can check to see if there are updated versions of your currently installed extensions from within Firefox? Click Tools > Extensions, select the extension you would like to update and click the Update button. If [...]

I updated the phpMyAdmin tutorial to include creating tables.

For students who are working with PHP/MySQL in Dreamweaver I have a tutorial forimporting SQL tables into f2o using phpMyAdmin that you may find helpful. We have encountered some issues trying to import SQL files (text files with the SQL statements) into f2o with phpMyAdmin. I have added notes on how to correct this issue to the tutorial and you [...]

When Andrew Krespanis of leftjustified.net stopped by this blog and left us some tips I was so darn excited. What a nice thing to do! So I ventured back over to his site, which I’ve been meaning to do anyway, and I found this presentation Making Complex CSS Simple: Site in an Hour. My little wheels were turning and I [...]

There is a lot of buzz on the design sites about designing for handheld devices. With virtually all of the new handheld devices (cell phones & PDAS) offering some kind of web access and usability improving more and more people are turning to their handheld devices to access the Internet when they’re away from their desktop computers. We’re currently researching [...]