Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

This morning on the KRON news I saw two shopping search engines that you may find useful:
Cairo helps you to find the best deal in town. Enter your zip code and the item that you’re looking to buy and Cairo will search for sales in your area for that item. It will even display a thumbnail of the [...]

It’s a good idea to periodically backup your Dreamweaver site settings. When you backup your site settings the backup file is saved with an *.ste extension. This file includes your Remote site information (FTP username, login name, and password), Local Site Information, (the local path to your root folder), and any testing server information you may have setup. This is [...]

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 [...]

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 the [...]

Here is a challenge for students who have completed Flash. Try to Build A Video Jigsaw Puzzle in Flash.
The Weekly Standards features corporate web sites that use standards based design.

Photoshop’s High Pass Filter – Veerle outlines how to use Photoshop’s High Pass Filter to sharpen your photos.
Joshuaink has a great article on web fashion. While you’re there read Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…
WebColor-Kit is a web utility for selecting colors for web sites. What’s different about this color tool is that you select a [...]

I’ve written a new tutorial for Fireworks an image editing program by Macromedia. I’m hearing a lot of sighs of frustration in class, so I thought we should take a break and have a little fun and learn how to create some simple graphics.

I have updated my class sample site to include the New Perspectives Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 web sites. I have also removed the old HTML book solutions.
The catalystdb.sql SQL file used in tutorial09/tutorial of your Dreamweaver book (Page 489 #5) is problematic. I have written a new SQL file called catalystdb.sql that you should download and [...]

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 [...]

Recently I joined CommunityMx, which is a community that supports and maintains high quality, fresh Macromedia web development articles, tutorials, and extensions. I have debated over the last year about whether to join this community (it’s not free, they charge a monthly fee) and finally decided to join after finding out that almost all of the PositionIsEverything content had [...]