Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Yesterday I mentioned that Rachel Andrew has a new book available at SitePoint titled Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website Using Dreamweaver 8. I just wanted to let you all know that you can download a sample chapter of this book at SitePoint, it’s 130+ pages. Please don’t print this in class; if you would like to read this in [...]

The Essential Web-Dev-Bookmarks have been updated. This is a terrific resource for everyone! If you are using Firefox a lot, you may find this list of Firefox shortcut keys useful. Ever feel overwhelmed by email? Michael Angier’s article Top Ten Ways to Handle Email Overload may help. How Google Works – an easy to understand overview of how this popular [...]

The Jackol’s Den has an htaccess cheat sheet that you may want to print and add to your resources. You can learn more about other ways the .htaccess file is used in the article Server Move. The .htaccess file can be used to prevent hotlinking as discussed in class yesterday. Speaking of cheat sheets, Code by Matt, has cheat sheets [...]

Evolt is finally back online with version 3.0; there haven’t been any major updates for six months. The site has a new look and new articles. Where / What Vision Systems and Visual Design, is not a new article, but with the new design of Evolt I just noticed it and it’s worth a read. I am saddened by Tommy [...]

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 upgrades [...]

9 JavaScripts you had better not miss! The Horizontal Looper/Repeat Region PHP Dreamweaver Extension – As mentioned in class! This would be one to bookmark for students who have completed the PHP/Dreamweaver book, it will create horizontal repeating regions that loop down the page. Between boxes, I will continue to update this blog over the next month. I will be [...]

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 wanted to share a few more HomeSite features that may help you to get your lessons done faster. Line numbers: Click the line number icon in the Editor toolbar (vertical toolbar) to turn on line numbering. This is helpful when you are validating documents or dubugging JavaScript and PHP errors. Edit > Convert Tag Case: If you have a [...]

In Part I of this series we discussed Snippets in Dreamweaver. This article discusses how to use and create snippets in HomeSite+, a popular HTML editor by Macromedia. Yesterday we discussed some basics of HomeSite. Today we will learn to use and create snippets in HomeSite to further automate the web development process. Open HomeSite. From the Resource Tabs select [...]

Yes, it’s true Macromedia has it’s own HTML/XHTML editor called HomeSite. We have not been using it in class because we had issues with getting it to run on our network. It’s working now and it’s an excellent editor, so I would like to encourage all of you to take a look at HomeSite. You can access HomeSite in class [...]