Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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! [...]

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 [...]

Do you want to see what people are viewing and bookmarking right this minute? Checkout LiveMarks – which displays what people are bookmarking on Del.icio.us in real-time. This is another Ajax demonstration. Pretty slick!

Photoshop Elements 4.0 releases this week. You can read more at the NY Times or at Adobe’s web site.
Phong.com has a variety of Photoshop tutorials including advanced techniques like masking, patterns, and photo stitching.
Have you heard about BackPack yet? With Backpack you can:
Organize to do lists, notes, images, and photos Plan a personal or business trip [...]

PC Magazine has a short article on how to upsample your images. Good techniques if you need to increase the size of a jpeg image for printing.
Top 7 Tricks For Getting an Interview includes some interesting suggestions for how to get an interview. Since most of you are currently looking for employment, you may want to take a [...]

My copy of Bulletproof Web Design was waiting for me when I got home last night and at first glance it looks wonderful. It’s packed with CSS techniques by Dan Cederholm. The book is in color with lots of color screen captures. I’m sure that this one will be added to my list of books worth buying [...]

I don’t know if you guys watch KRON TV in the morning, but our very own Yvonne was on TV this morning…or was that Marilyn Monroe?

Well, I was reading my referrer reports because I have been having issues with referrer log spam. I was inspecting my logs because I plan to implement some of the tactics that I read at Ed Costello. I found this web site http://oraculo.blog.com/blog/jinigirl/2005/5/ in my logs and ALL of the content on the page was stolen from my [...]

There are two books that I would like to recommend to all of my students:
Web Designer’s Reference
Web Standards Solutions
These are both excellent books for learning about XHTML, CSS, and building standards compliant web sites. I have found that they are both very easy to read and provide a wealth of information to the new web developer.
Web Accessibility Tools [...]