Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Recently we have added a WordPress unit to the course curriculum. While it’s not a required unit at this time, I think it’s very important for students to learn how to use WordPress and how to manipulate and create themes (design). This post includes excellent articles, themes, and plugins that I have found over the last two weeks (5/27-6/16).
Remember, these [...]

The Joomla unit is done.  We will be using Joomla! A User’s Guide as the course text. Because the software version of Joomla! has changed since the book was written, I have written extensive notes on the assignment sheet to accompany the book. The second edition of the book is supposed to release Q1/Q2 2009. Until then you can use [...]

Today we will explore how to setup a simple blog. The beauty of using a blog to create a Web site is that they are easy to maintain, design, and update content. We will explore several different blogging systems that are hosted on third party sites. The beauty of using a free blog host is that you don’t [...]

Don’t: Overlook the Power of the Web to Sell Yourself
There are numerous options available on the Internet for promoting yourself to employers. Don’t overlook blogs and your own resume web site as unique ways to reach out to potential employers.
“Every job seeker should have a blog and a keyword-rich resume on their own web site,” says Montford. “You can [...]

What is a Blog?
I think that those of us who blog assume that everyone who surfs the Internet knows exactly what a blog is. I mean everyone has heard of MySpace, right? Haven’t you heard people say “I’m going to post that on my blog” at dinner parties? As a computer teacher I try to avoid using too [...]

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information.
Designing a Rainbow – Sexy Hot Colors – Lorelle on WordPress has a wonderful roundup of color resources on her blog today. Yummy!
graphicPUSH offers a Blog Icon Pack, a set of free icons for your [...]

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:
Tracy shared a great resource with me for used books, Abebooks. The prices are terrific and [...]

Mani Sheriar, a former student and successful designer, has started a blog to accompany her beautiful site. Mani offers CSS and XHTML tips and discussion on her site designs. This is definately a site that you want to watch, I’m sure she’ll be a constant source of amazement for all of you!
For you Scott Kelby fans there is now [...]

I have mentioned in previous posts that I have been having a lot of trouble with comment, trackback , and referrer spam on my blogs, especially my photo blog. The referrer reports are really worthless on tinkertech.net because the referrer spam has gotten so bad. While I thought I had blocked trackback spam on my blogs, it [...]

There are several useful online search tools/services that you should familarize yourself with. These tools will help you to find a lot of content related to web development.
Del.icio.us – Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking system. What exactly does that mean? Instead of using Favorites in IE or Bookmarks in Firefox, your bookmarks are stored online and [...]