Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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 started flooding my [...]

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 available to other [...]

Rob and I are feeling settled in our new home, but we’re exhausted. We still have a few things to finish up at the old house (yard work, etc.) and I have some boxes in this gargare to empty, but otherwise we’re done. Eventually, we want to do some painting and I will put up some photos/artwork on the walls, [...]

Get Cooking with Photoshop and CSS – 3 Low-fat Recipes – a tutorial by Corrie Haffly on how to combine Photoshop and CSS to create a great looking site! CSS Tests – a variety of CSS example/test pages. GooRSS would you like to search Google for informative sites with RSS feeds on a particular subject? Now you can with GooRSS. [...]

IEBlog has an article Standards and CSS in IE – in a nutshell, little has been done to support standards and CSS in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1. There is however an impressive list of “fixes” for Beta 2, so we shall see. For additional information on the update, head over to MezzoBlue. While you’re over at Mezzoblue, check out [...]

Well, in case you didn’t hear the news in class, Rob and I put in an offer on a house yesterday morning and the offer has been accepted. You can see pictures of the new house here. We are hoping to close escrow by 8/16 and move in starting 8/20. Make Your Site Mobile Friendly in Two Minutes. Really, just [...]

A summer get together in in the planning stages. This will be a BBQ/Pool party at Georgia’s house. We will post more information in the Stay in Touch section of the class forum. Please spread the word to former students that you are still in contact with so they can attend. If you give them the link to the forum [...]

26 steps to 15k a Day – is a short guide to improving search engine rankings. While reading this article, I found a site that you may already know about called Zeal. Zeal is a community dedicated to building a better search engine. It allows people to share their favorite web sites, thereby improving search results. It looks like a [...]

New article alert! Digital Web Magazine has a new article on the Principles of Web Design. This is the first article in a series on design. Be sure to check DWM periodically for the rest of the series. Which image format is best – a clear explanation of the three image formats (JPEG, Gif, and PNG) and the benefits of [...]

I have made a change to the blog archives. It is common for blogs to only display “excerpts” of posts in the archives. In order to see the entire post you have to click the post title. I think this has been a bit confusing for new bloggers who use this site. Now when you use one of the category [...]