Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Vitaly Friedman has pulled together a wonderful list of bookmarks for web developers. This is a page you want to be sure to bookmark!
Aardvark is a useful Firefox extension that you can use to identify block level elements (divs, h1, ul, img, p, table, td, etc.) on web pages. Right click on the page that you want [...]

Mani Sheriar has a sample file on her site for the CSS Three Column Liquid Layout you may be interested in reviewing; this might be especially helpful to those of you who are working on your CSS Case Problems. If you have not been to Mani’s site yet, visit. She’s a former student, beautiful designer, and a great [...]

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 [...]

If you have created a blog here in class you may now be facing comment spam. WordPress has filters and options to protect your blog against comment spam (found in Options > Discussion), but I thought you may find this article on how to stop comment spam from SitePoint interesting.
While we’re on the subject of spam, Georgia [...]

This Saturday I will be presenting at the California Association of Regional Occupational Centers and Programs. I have been asked to present a workshop on creating a simple instructional web site for teachers. I’ve done this type of workshop in the past, but I usually use Dreamweaver or whatever software I’m asked to use to create this [...]

The 2005 Bloggie winners have been announced. You can see the best of the best at http://2005.bloggies.com/

del.icio.us is a social bookmark manager. Just what the heck does that mean? Well, you can store your bookmarks online, share them with others, and browse other user’s bookmarks. It’s a “social” system because you can see what other people are bookmarking and they can see what you bookmark.
del.icio.us integrates nicely with WordPress; the [...]

Scriptygoddess has wonderful scripts for WordPress, MovableType and PHP in general. Be sure to check the site archives to see what other goodies are available.
While I’m on the subject of WordPress, here are a few other WordPress resources you may want to visit:
WordPress Codex – Lists WordPress plugins, tutorials, themes, hacks and other useful information related to [...]

The WordPress installation tutorial has been updated for version 1.5.
Marjie has already installed the new version of WordPress on her site and has been working with the styles.css file. She has done a great job styling her blog so far. Since I haven’t styled this blog yet, I am nominating Marjie to be the [...]

The 2005 Bloggie winners are about to be announced (3/14). These are publically choosen awards for the best weblogs.