Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Some of you have mentioned to me that the current class forum is difficult to navigate. I tend to agree, the forum itself seems to be a bit clumsy. Currently we are using a content management system called Xoops. I decided to test some of the different content management systems to see if another platform would meet [...]

This web site is a compilation of daily class lecture notes and resources for the students in the Regional Occupational Program’s Web Page Design Program. The class offers low-cost, web development training to adults and high school students who are 16 years or older.
Classes are $45.00 for a nine-week session (books are purchased separately). Students may [...]

How To Nail A Sexy Layout – Part One, Skeletize, Visualize, and Nakedize – Steps to building a sexy, standards based layout.
23 Photo Sharing – a new, free photo sharing site.
The Aging Process – Most people want to make themselves look younger, but Worth1000 has a Photoshop tutorial on making yourself or someone else age. If you enjoy working [...]

Some of the new students will begin the XHTML book soon, review these notes before you begin the book. New students will use HomeSite to code their XHTML documents, you can learn more about HomeSite by searching this blog for homesite.
I’m a bit late on this news, Macromedia announced Studio 8 while I was on vacation. It includes [...]

It is time to start recruiting for the fall session of class. If you know anyone who lives in the bay area and would be interested in learning web page design or Microsoft Office please have them call 925-942-3436.
If you belong to any groups that you could share our brochures with or post this short message on a group [...]

I just received this update today. I have taken lots of web and graphic related classes at LVS Online and have loved them. If you decide to take classes, please tell them Robin sent ya!
Registration Is Open At LVS Online – Where Learning Is Fun!
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