Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

On Friday we will use my basic photo editing in Photoshop as an outline for our workshop. You may want to print the tutorial and download and save the images associated with the tutorial before Friday.
I also have some basic scanning directions for HP and Epson scanners for today’s lecture. Special Note: In order to use the [...]

Graph paper in PDF format – Graph paper is extremely useful for planing and drawing “mock” web pages. Download the PDF file and print copies on your laser or inkjet printer.
If you ever need icons for your web site, message boards, or email, check out Yellow Icon. There are tons of free, quality icons for you to [...]

Photoshop’s High Pass Filter – Veerle outlines how to use Photoshop’s High Pass Filter to sharpen your photos.
Joshuaink has a great article on web fashion. While you’re there read Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…
WebColor-Kit is a web utility for selecting colors for web sites. What’s different about this color tool is that you select a [...]

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 [...]

Color in Motion – you must go see this! It’s an interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism created in Flash.
WhiteSpace has an article on Learning CSS that outlines the why, where and how to learn CSS.
The Return of Design – articles, color schemes, resources, and links galore!
Combobulate has a list of 76 cool programs [...]

You may have noticed that a lot of web sites have a small icon next to their URL in the address bar; this icon/image is called a FavIcon. You can create your own FavIcon with a photo/logo or any graphic at FavIcons from Pics. From the opening page, browse to the file you want to convert [...]

My Blogger presentation went very well this morning. I had an issue with my laptop, I left it on the roof of the car, but no real damage was done. The presentation itself went really well, I would say I had 55-60 participants. My favorite evaluation comment was “YOU ROCK!”. How cool is that? Another [...]

I was looking for a new XHTML chart to post on the XHTML assignment sheet and I came across this Color Symbolism Chart instead. It tells you the meanings of different colors in various cultures. Be sure to also check the related articles at the bottom of the page for more information on designing with color.

Evolt has an excellent article on 10 Steps to Higher Search Engine Positioning. May I also recommend that you read Understanding Color and Accessibility, be sure to read the user comments, they can be both educational and entertaining. Did you know that Dan Cody, the founder of f2o.org, was the founder of Evolt?

Zooiblog has an article on fixed positioning and backgrounds; I thought you might be interested in this since it mentions the PNG transparency hack we were discussing a couple of weeks ago.
WebCredible has a condense, informative article on CSS hacks and Browser Dectection. This is a really good page to print out and add to your web tricks binder. [...]