Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I am republishing this article because so many new resources have been added since the original publishing date. If you know of additional resources that should be added please leave a comment below.
Part of the Photoshop class project is to create a Web site mockup. I have recently found several tutorials that may help you to complete this project.
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Lovely Charts is a cool, online tool for creating Flowcharts, Sitemaps, Network Diagrams, People Diagrams, Basic Symbols, and Wireframes. These charts can be exported to PDF, jpeg, and PNG and then they can be imported into other applications like Word or Excel for printing. Charts can also be saved on the Lovely Chart site. This is a free service, [...]

The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.
Visit the Web Development Project Estimator

No man (or woman) is an island – and this statement can’t be any truer if you’re a designer or developer. Though paid/subscription services like Basecamp and Zimbra are great, individuals strapped for cash have a ton of alternatives that provide similar (if not better) features.
In this article, you’ll find 15 free tools to help you facilitate remote/web-based collaboration. Whether [...]

Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well [...]

I love this! http://www.pingmag.jp/2005/12/09/the-website-development-process/

CSS Font and Text Style Wizard – a wizard to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code. You may also like the HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard. Both of these wizards will generate CSS and HTML code for your web pages.
5 Great Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop – this [...]

Happy Monday everyone! Today we have new student orientation and an advisory committee meeting. Yikes! I would like to ask that you help each other, as I will be pretty tied up with both events. Here are a few web sites to visit while I’m helping our new classmates to get started:
Website Layout Cookbook – A [...]

Have you installed the Internet Explorer Developer toolbar? I have been using it for the last few weeks and it’s quite helpful. It offers a lot of the same tools as the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox. This is just a friendly reminder that these tools/extensions will really help when developing web sites. You can find additional [...]

Some of you have mentioned to me that the current class forum is difficult to navigate. I tend to agree, the forum itself seems to be a bit clumsy. Currently we are using a content management system called Xoops. I decided to test some of the different content management systems to see if another platform would meet [...]