Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Let’s try this tutorial A Fireworks Quickie – Using Text as a Mask today in class @ 2:30 p.m.. Be sure to have a photo available to work with. Here are my results: StyleGala has an interesting article, No more CSS Hacks, on using PHP detect browsers and serve CSS accordingly. A Few Tips On Estimating Web Projects may be [...]

Workshop Prep: Please create a folder called f2o in your PM directory (drive F:\) using Windows Explorer. Move the photo gallery that you would like to upload into the f2o folder. For our workshop today I thought I would post a few resources on removing objects from photos: Removing a person or object from a photo – This technique uses [...]

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 [...]

Mani Sheriar has a sample file on her site for the CSS Three Column Liquid Layout you may be interested in reviewing; this might be especially helpful to those of you who are working on your CSS Case Problems. If you have not been to Mani’s site yet, visit. She’s a former student, beautiful designer, and a great supporter of [...]

While I was checking the Macromedia web site for some help on a very stupid error that I made. While I was there I found a tutorial that I thought some of you who have completed the PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 unit might enjoy; it’s called Building a Blog with Dreamweaver, PHP, and MySQL. This tutorial [...]

I know that some of you are about ready to start the PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 unit. I am still working on the assignment sheet, I have finished it through chapter 6 so you should be able to get started. You can view it here http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/webdes/dreamphp.htm

I know that several of you are looking to purchase your first digital camera. C|Net has a reviews on some of the ultracompact cameras currently on the market. You can find more camera reviews at C|Net and be sure to check out their Editor’s Top Picks. Besides the reviews there is a pretty extensive guide to buying a digital camera. [...]

I updated the phpMyAdmin tutorial to include creating tables.

For students who are working with PHP/MySQL in Dreamweaver I have a tutorial forimporting SQL tables into f2o using phpMyAdmin that you may find helpful. We have encountered some issues trying to import SQL files (text files with the SQL statements) into f2o with phpMyAdmin. I have added notes on how to correct this issue to the tutorial and you [...]

It is very important to get into the habit of proofreading your HTML code. Here are a few tips for proofreading. Thank you to Dale Mead for his additional suggestions on proofing. Proofread, proofread, proofread. Then proofread more. JavaScript is case sensitive, MyVar is different from myvar Make sure that all variables are named the same throughout the entire script [...]