Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

After our discussion on Pixelated Color Palettes in Photoshop yesterday, Nina showed me another method of picking colors for a web site from a photo. Open Photoshop Click File > Open and navigate to the file that you want to use as a starting point for a web site color palette. Double click the file to open it Click File [...]

Christmas Globe A Christmas Story in 30 seconds as told by bunnies Both of these links use Flash and both have sound. If you enjoy the bunnies visit http://www.angryalien.com/

Ten reasons to learn and use web standards – The title really says it all. Another wonderful article from 456 Berea Street. Anatomy of a Document – a deconstructed, annotated XHTML document. Rachel Andrew has an article at 24 ways on CSS Layout Starting Points – I think this is a great example of CSS layouts for beginners. Image Map [...]

As a follow-up to our class discussion on Search Engine Optimization, SEOmoz.org has a Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization. What a great resource! You may also be interested in browsing highrankings.com forums. This is a forum devoted to search engine optimization. This is an active forum with wonderful advice and resources. While you’re there be sure to check out [...]

I’ve come across some new (well new to me) Firefox extensions that I thought you might find helpful: del.icio.us – the del.icio.us extension for Firefox offers everything you need to seamlessly integrate the del.icio.us service with your Firefox browser. This is very handy if you use del.icio.us to keep track of your favorite web sites. SessionSaver – I love this [...]

I wanted to share some search engine optimization resources with you. As you’re writing content and coding you must take search engine optimization into account; it does no good to create a beautiful site if nobody can find it. These articles will give you a good foundation for creating pages that are search engine friendly. You should see some common [...]

The subject of email design comes up quite a bit in class. I thought you might find this article Email Design Guidelines for 2006 helpful.

CSS Intensivstation offers several XHTML and CSS templates for you to use. There are also 15 CSS short How-to articles and links to other resources. MaxDesign also offers numerous sample CSS page layouts. You may also want to check out their presentations and articles. Template:css – this site provides links to numerous CSS templates. Screen captures of each of the [...]

When I met with our advisory committee earlier in the month we discussed teaching JavaScript in the web development program. Unfortunately, our course has a limited duration and we just can’t teach it all (don’t I wish). Since our course is designed to teach students entry-level web development skills I feel that we cannot delve too deeply into JavaScript. I [...]

CSS Font and Text Style Wizard – a wizard to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code. You may also like the HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard. Both of these wizards will generate CSS and HTML code for your web pages. 5 Great Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop – this article/tutorial outlines [...]