Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I have a teacher’s meeting today. I will be leaving around 3:30 p.m. and Carolyn will be subbing for the remainder of class.
Standards-schmandards has an article on Methods for measuring text readability. The article discusses the importance of writing web site content that your visitors can understand. It also offers a readability index calculator, which [...]

I hope that you all had a wonderful August; while I’m not feeling so rested, I am feeling refreshed and happy to be returning to school. I just really hope that there aren’t any boxes waiting for me to unpack.
Here are a few resources to start the school year off right:
Cheat Sheet Roundup – Over 30 [...]

Well, in case you didn’t hear the news in class, Rob and I put in an offer on a house yesterday morning and the offer has been accepted. You can see pictures of the new house here. We are hoping to close escrow by 8/16 and move in starting 8/20.
Make Your [...]

We have to update our classroom version of Firefox in order to use the Firefox Extension Center. Unfortunately, this is something that I must do on all of the machines or deploy a new image. Please do not try to download and intall the latest version of Firefox. I am working on creating a new image, but [...]

New students: I would recommend that today you take a look at Firefox, a web browser that we use extensively in class. You can learn more about Firefox in this tutorial Using Mozilla Firefox. You will find Firefox and the available extensions very helpful in class.
After reading the tutorial, be sure to install Aardvark. Aardvark is a [...]

I needed to find a free file sharing service so that I could bring some files home with me from work. Unfortunately, my CD drive isn’t working on my piece-o-crap Averatec Tablet and I forgot my USB drive at home. I found some recommended resources at About.com and ended up signing up for a 30 day trial account [...]

Vitaly Friedman has pulled together a wonderful list of bookmarks for web developers. This is a page you want to be sure to bookmark!
Aardvark is a useful Firefox extension that you can use to identify block level elements (divs, h1, ul, img, p, table, td, etc.) on web pages. Right click on the page that you want [...]

Print and review the welcome to class letter (Word document format), this contains a lot of helpful information about class.
Visit and explore the classroom web site at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/. The classroom web site includes all of the assignment sheets, project information, and other relevant class materials.
Visit and explore http://www.tinkertech.net/. Here you will find tutorials related to class [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]