Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

This is a roundup of wonderful design related articles. Remember, these are articles I “tweet” on Twitter. Click the @username to see the posts of some of the people who I respect and love to “follow” on Twitter, the #hashtags to search the related topics, and of course the actual links to read the awesome articles. Web Design Resources Roundup [...]

Vandelay Web Site Design has compiled a list of 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites. In addition to screen captures of each site, there are links to the original sites so you can check them out.

Check out Splashup, an online image editor and creator. This is a Web based image editor, no software installation is required. With Splashup you can even create and edit images with multiple layers. This online image editor even has filters and layer effects. Splashup can be used to create Web graphics and/or to edit digital photos. Splashup is very easy [...]

Tom asked about making the Google logo. Here is a tutorial for making the plain Google logo using bevel and emboss techniques: Your Own Google Logo from LOGOogle You can view all of the different Google Doodles at Google’s Web site. Happy holidays to all! See you in Antioch in 2007!!!!

Gradients are used a lot on Web sites to create the illusion of 3D or depth. Here are some tutorials for creating gradients in both Photoshop. A Gradient Tutorial from the 9rules.com Blog – Simple method for creating a realistic looking gradient. Note: If you print this article, please print only pages 1-5 since the rest of the pages are [...]

Today we will work on creating simple vertical, horizontal, and diagonal striped background images in Photoshop. These background images can be used as backgrounds for pages, paragraphs, headings, and other elements. Creating horizontal stripes In Photoshop click File > New Set the Width of the image to 1 pixel Set the Height of the image to 4 pixels (the height [...]

I’ve been writing short articles for the Acalanes High School class; I thought I would repost this color article here for the adult program. Any time you start to build a web site you need to determine who your audience will be. Do you have an international audience? Are they primarily male or female? What is the age group of [...]

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 article/tutorial outlines [...]

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 blog [...]

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 visual reference for [...]