Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Noupe.com, a wonderful news source for designers and developers, has gathered 40+ High Quality Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, Resources & PNG files. Fireworks is an great program for creating Web graphics. It is currently produced by Adobe, but was originally developed by Macromedia. If you don’t already own Photoshop and/or Illustrator you may want to download a trial version of [...]

Sometimes it is just worlds easier watching a tutorial than reading it, and the Internet has made video tutorials of all kinds very available. Photoshop tutorials are especially popular due to the complexity of the popular program.
Continue reading 20+ Photoshop Video Tutorials.

Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of [...]

Michael purchased Adobe Creative Suite at MacWorld. He was kind enough to contact Creation Engine about extending the discount pricing and they are continuing their show special until January 31, 2008. You will need to have a student ID that you can fax or email to them after you place your order.
Details are at http://www.creationengine.com/macworld2008

Smashing Magazine has pulled together a list of the best Flash tutorials. There are over 25 tutorials and sites for you to check out.

Now is a great time to learn about Adobe Fireworks, an image editor originally produced by Macromedia. I thought I would post descriptions of all of the tools used in Fireworks and some tutorials.

Tool Panel
Tool
Expanded Tool

Selection tools – Used to select and alter existing objects

SubSelection Tool – Use this tool to select items that are hidden behind other objects

Tools [...]

I have updated the Dreamweaver FTP tutorial to reflect the new hosting details. You can feel free to start using your new accounts immediately.
I also posted an abbreviated version of the Dreamweaver FTP tutorial. Students who have already read the full Dreamweaver tutorial should use this version.

Christmas Globe
A Christmas Story in 30 seconds as told by bunnies
Both of these links use Flash and both have sound.
If you enjoy the bunnies visit http://www.angryalien.com/

The Favourite Website Awards was established in 2000 to showcase the latest and best cutting edge web sites. The sites showcased are considered “future thinking and progressively designed sites that feature cutting edge technologies”. These sites typically employ Flash designs and some may require the Flash 8 player.

Jakob Nielsen shares the Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005. This is a compilation of web design annoyances submitted by his readers; all of these issues deal with usability. The really nice thing about this article is that links to other articles that address the issues are provided; you’re not just left wondering how to fix or [...]