Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

The Favourite Website Awards was established in 2000 to showcase the latest and best cutting edge web sites. The sites showcased are considered “future thinking and progressively designed sites that feature cutting edge technologies”. These sites typically employ Flash designs and some may require the Flash 8 player.

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information.
Designing a Rainbow – Sexy Hot Colors – Lorelle on WordPress has a wonderful roundup of color resources on her blog today. Yummy!
graphicPUSH offers a Blog Icon Pack, a set of free icons for your [...]

Yesterday I encouraged you all to read the article Fixing Browsers: Bugs and Hacks by Lorelle VanFossen. Lorelle was kind enough to share another article she wrote, Views of a Web Page. In this article, Lorelle describes in wonderful detail the testing process used when building a web page. The article discusses developing and testing for [...]

Checking Sites for Consistency
One of the really tough parts of web development is getting your site layout consistent in multiple browsers on multiple platforms (Windows (98, 2000, XP), Macintosh, Linux, etc.), with different resolutions when you’re using CSS. You must ensure that your site looks good in various versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, and Konqueror [...]

Just a few class resources that new students should be aware of:
Information about class resources including: Job search, class procedures, holidays, session dates, attendance, file management, book discounts, software discounts, and ergonomics can be found by visiting the course home page at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us and clicking the link named Current Students in the orange menu bar.
Check the online version of [...]

It is very important for you to develop an understanding of designing for handhelds. The book that we are currently using in class is rather “sparse” on the subject. I have pulled together some resources for handheld devices and CSS.

Stylesheets for handheld devices
The End-All Guide to Small-Screen Web-Dev
Mobile Web Design ~ The Series
Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your Website to the [...]

Welcome new students! We all hope that you will enjoy the program. There are a couple of articles that I would like you to read today:

Important Notes for Students Starting the XHTML Book
HTML Character Entities

Now for some goodies from around the web:
Tracy shared a great resource with me for used books, Abebooks. The prices are terrific and [...]

On Monday, November 7, 2005 we held our semi-annual advisory committee meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to allow members of industry to review our curriculum and offer suggestions for improvement. Our advisers were Jim Espinoza, the original webmaster for Hotmail, now a consultant and Tony Davis a developer and illustrator.
One of my major concerns was the [...]

Happy Monday everyone! Today we have new student orientation and an advisory committee meeting. Yikes! I would like to ask that you help each other, as I will be pretty tied up with both events. Here are a few web sites to visit while I’m helping our new classmates to get started:
Website Layout Cookbook – A [...]

I encourage you to use CSS instead of tables for your XHTML Additional Cases and projects. Creating a multi-column layout with CSS is not always easy. The first thing you should do is determine how you want your page or pages to layout on paper before you ever begin coding (I will really appreciate this when I am [...]