Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

There are six new designs at the CSS Zen Garden including Moss by Mani Sheriar, a former student. Way to go Mani!

For those of you who are using a Mac you may want to check out CSS Edit by MacRabbit. I installed this CSS Editor on our Mac in the classroom. To see additional CSS and HTML/XHTML editors visit CSSDiscuss. Right now I am trying out TSW’s WebCoder for the classroom (freeware) and StyleMaster for home use.

Some students have asked me how I manage to keep up with everything in the classroom and how I find such a variety of sites for them to visit. First off, Google is my best friend. I use the Google toolbar to quickly perform general searches when I need to find info on something fast. I used to always use [...]

Light Seek has put together a thumbnail gallery of the various entries in the CSS Zen Garden. This should be nice way to browse the beautiful garden.

List-u-like is a CSS Generator that creates cross browser navigation bars. Pretty nifty!

I started skimming my new copy of the Zen of CSS design last night and found a link in the "Closing thoughts" section of the book that you may find useful; it’s a CSS Cribsheet. Molly Holzschlag is the co-author of the Zen of CSS design, her wonderful web site is located at http://www.molly.com. She currently has an article on [...]

I teach computer applications and web page design to adults in sunny California. I’ve been doing this for longer than I care to admit, but I can honestly say that I still love my job. This blog will be used for me to share web sites, articles, tips, and other interesting items that relate to web design and computers in [...]

Zooiblog has an article on fixed positioning and backgrounds; I thought you might be interested in this since it mentions the PNG transparency hack we were discussing a couple of weeks ago. WebCredible has a condense, informative article on CSS hacks and Browser Dectection. This is a really good page to print out and add to your web tricks binder. [...]

456 Berea Street has a nice list of Efficient CSS with shorthand properties. While you’re there, take the time to read Basics of search engine optimisation.

Why standards-compliant HTML matters, a rather timely article on standards compliance.