Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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 that [...]

I just wanted to remind you all that CSS Reboot is happening this Sunday, May 1st. If you get a chance, check out the participants listed on the site today or tomorrow. Write down your current favorites (you may even want to print the front page of their site) so you can visit their site again after May 1st to [...]

Many of you have been working on creating your own CSS layouts. When developing these layouts you must decide whether to use floats vs. absolute or relative positioning. I thought I would post a few articles that may help with the decision making process: 456 Berea St. – Fixed or fluid width? Elastic! InformitIT – Integrated Web Design: Position This! [...]

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 to analyze [...]

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 supporter of [...]

For those of you who haven’t visited the CSS Zen Garden, visit now. It contains beautiful examples of the power of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). There are six new April designs as of 4/16 for those of you who visit often. After looking at the beauty of the Garden, take a look at this spoof on the Garden, a perfect [...]

CSS Drive is a categorized CSS gallery and examples. There are some really wonderful examples of sites designed with CSS on this site. The Early Bird Catches the CSS: Planning Structural HTML – an excellent article on writing structural HTML. What I really liked about the article was the table at the bottom of the page that displayed HTML attributes [...]

Print and review the welcome to class letter (Word document format), this contains a lot of helpful information about class. Visit and explore the classroom web site at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/. The classroom web site includes all of the assignment sheets, project information, and other relevant class materials. Visit and explore http://www.tinkertech.net/. Here you will find tutorials related to class and helpful [...]

I have been collecting some sites to share with you all, but it seems that everyday I find something else that I want to post. These sites have been open in my Firefox browser and it’s time to free up some resources. Since today is the last day of class for so many, I thought it would be best if [...]

Bernadette asked me today if there was a book that listed all of the CSS properties and of course there are, but why don’t we save some money. Instead check out Brian Wilson’s CSS Property Index at Index dot CSS, it’s quite comprehensive (including CSS properties, values and browser support) and a must bookmark! This site can help you with [...]