Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

On page HTML 361 of your XHTML book it discusses contextual selectors and selector patterns. I found a really good article by Adrian Senior on CSS Selectors: Pattern Matching and Inheritance that does a great job of explaning the document tree, the relationship between elements, and how to define CSS tules based on those relationships.

Robin Good has a great article on Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles which includes links to some excellent free stock image sites including stock.xchng. He also has a review of a free digital image editor called Photofiltre that looks really interesting and worth a download. A CSS Rounded Box Generator anyone? Cameron [...]

Recently I joined CommunityMx, which is a community that supports and maintains high quality, fresh Macromedia web development articles, tutorials, and extensions. I have debated over the last year about whether to join this community (it’s not free, they charge a monthly fee) and finally decided to join after finding out that almost all of the PositionIsEverything content had been [...]

CSS Reboot “is a community project that brings together web professionals from all over and encourages them to collectively launch redesigns of their sites on May 1st.” You can see the participants in this exciting project here. AListApart has a couple of new articles that you may find interesting, Hybrid CSS Dropdowns and Spruced Up Site Maps. Mezzoblue has a [...]

I have to start by saying that the Site-in-an-hour exercise was one of the most valuable lessons that I have completed in a long time. I really learned a lot. I forgot to include several images in the img folder; please copy the siteinanhour folder to your user directory again. Here’s what you should do: Type the XHTML code in [...]

Just a reminder, tomorrow we will working on the Site-in-an-Hour exercise. There are a few things you should do before class: Print and read the presentation. You should also read the associated links on the presentation. If you send the first page of the presentation to the printer, the entire presentation will print. Print and review the source code of [...]

I have encouraged all of you to download and install some of the powerful extensions that are available for Firefox. Did you know that you can check to see if there are updated versions of your currently installed extensions from within Firefox? Click Tools > Extensions, select the extension you would like to update and click the Update button. If [...]

When Andrew Krespanis of leftjustified.net stopped by this blog and left us some tips I was so darn excited. What a nice thing to do! So I ventured back over to his site, which I’ve been meaning to do anyway, and I found this presentation Making Complex CSS Simple: Site in an Hour. My little wheels were turning and I [...]

There is a lot of buzz on the design sites about designing for handheld devices. With virtually all of the new handheld devices (cell phones & PDAS) offering some kind of web access and usability improving more and more people are turning to their handheld devices to access the Internet when they’re away from their desktop computers. We’re currently researching [...]

I was reading SimpleBits this morning and there was a link to Design Eye for the Idea Guy which outlines the process of redesigning a site for a client, Dirk Knemeyer. Excellent sample logos, color choices, typeface samples, wireframes, and photography ideas are shared on these pages. The pages should give you inspiration and a lot of planning assistance. Of [...]