Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

A summer get together in in the planning stages. This will be a BBQ/Pool party at Georgia’s house. We will post more information in the Stay in Touch section of the class forum. Please spread the word to former students that you are still in contact with so they can attend. If you give them the link to the forum [...]

Quick Start Your Design with XHTML Templates – Just like the title says, a set of templates to help you to start web projects. PhotoshopSupport.com has a lot of quick tutorials and nice plugins and actions for Photoshop. Since we’ve been talking about digital photography, LifeHack has a Digital Photography HOWTO roundup of helpful links to resources and tutorials. LifeHacker [...]

I just wanted to thank you all for the birthday wishes. We had a wonderful trip. Rob took me and our best friends to Tahoe for the weekend. We rented a home there rather than staying in the casinos. The place that we rented was AWESOME. This is the small creek/river that ran behind our home, you can see the [...]

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 useful Firefox [...]

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: Many of you are now working on the CSS unit. Now is the time to [...]

Today is the last day of another 9 week session. I have had the pleasure of working with a great group of people over the last 27 weeks and I am deeply saddened by your departure. I wish you much success in the future with your careers and personal lives. Please keep in touch with me. Here are a few [...]

New article alert! Digital Web Magazine has a new article on the Principles of Web Design. This is the first article in a series on design. Be sure to check DWM periodically for the rest of the series. Which image format is best – a clear explanation of the three image formats (JPEG, Gif, and PNG) and the benefits of [...]

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 FilesAnywhere.com. The [...]

Jason Santa Maria has a great article on Maintaining Motivation when you’re a freelancer. I think this is a good article for everyone to read. MarkTAW.com also has an article on Getting Things Done. I’m starting to see a theme here. For those of you working on the PHP/MySQL unit, bookmark and print these MySQL and PHP cheatsheets. I love [...]

Hi All! I am in Surrey, BC. I got in about 1:30 p.m. and was taken straight to the high school, Guildford Park Secondary, that I will be presenting at tomorrow morning and Saturday. David, you were right, the Vancouver Airport is gorgeous! I’m thinking about a nap, this travel stuff wipes me out. Tomorrow after my presentation I’m going [...]