Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Food and Drink
Lately, our room has been looking more like a cafeteria than a classroom; food and drink items are being left all over the room. It’s like a treasure hunt when I do mine final class inspection at closing. I was disturbed last night when I found a large drink next to the classroom projector; the other [...]

Mani Sheriar, a former student and successful designer, has started a blog to accompany her beautiful site. Mani offers CSS and XHTML tips and discussion on her site designs. This is definately a site that you want to watch, I’m sure she’ll be a constant source of amazement for all of you!
For you Scott Kelby fans there is now [...]

Position is Everything, a tremendous resource on CSS and standards development, has several new articles available:
CSS Hacks and IE7
In Search of the One True Layout
On Having Layout
Issue 206 is available at ALA, A List Apart. It contains another two article that are worth reading: Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign and Attack of the Zombie Copy.
The 35 [...]

Dustin Diaz has put together a very nice CSS Shorthand Guide. What’s nice about this guide is that it includes the default value for the property values so you don’t have to guess at what will display if you don’t include a value in your shorthand.
CSS Selectors, Part 3 is now available at 456 Berea Street! [...]

Have you installed the Internet Explorer Developer toolbar? I have been using it for the last few weeks and it’s quite helpful. It offers a lot of the same tools as the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox. This is just a friendly reminder that these tools/extensions will really help when developing web sites. You can find additional [...]

The Contra Costa County Library now offers a service on their web site called Business Connection. This section of their site is designed to help local entrepreneurs and the small business community connect more easily with the information they need and with each other. There are numerous resources on the site and there are free workshops. What [...]

How to write a resume offers free tips on resume writing, interviewing, and writing cover letters.
ColourMod offers color pickers in various flavors; for Mac users there is a widget (small helper application), Windows users can use a Konfabulator widget, and for all platforms there is a DHTML plugin. I downloaded and tried the Konfabulator widget and it’s very nice.
Andy [...]

Making Your Resume Stand Out on Craigslist
With over 6,000 resumes posted to just the Bay Area section of Craigslist, how do your resume stand out from the rest?
Style it! When you’re posting your resume on Craigslist you can use HTML and basic inline CSS to control the look of your resume or any other posting. Here is a [...]

Very exciting news today; our main office has authorized an adjustment of our classroom hours. The new classes will be 12:15-4:15 p.m. and 4:15-6:15 p.m, both classes will meet Monday-Friday. I think the new hours will give more people an opportunity to attend our program; these new time slots should work better for people who are working, in [...]

CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 2 is now available. If you missed the first installment, read CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1 first. Since so many of you are working on the CSS unit now, these would be great articles for you to review.
W3C Compliance and SEO – learn why W3C compliance can improve your search engine ranking.
Here is a [...]