Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Dithered.com has a huge listing of CSS filters and hacks. The site includes browser support tables, non-validating hacks, and links to additional information on each hack. This is another site worth bookmarking.
Andy Budd & Jeremy Keith have a great “CSS slideshow” on How to Bluff Your Way in CSS. This is from [...]

If you are a student in my class you are probably learning that the CSS styles that you are writing may look good in Internet Explorer (Windows), but not in Firefox/Opera and visa-versa. At times you may have to use what are referred to as “hacks” in your CSS code to get your site to look good across all browsers. [...]

The WordPress installation tutorial has been updated for version 1.5.
Marjie has already installed the new version of WordPress on her site and has been working with the styles.css file. She has done a great job styling her blog so far. Since I haven’t styled this blog yet, I am nominating Marjie to be the [...]

Simple Transport has a wonderful list of design related links that I recommend that you bookmark. Many of the sites listed on this page have RSS Feeds that can be used with Sage. dezwozhere.com also has an extensive list of CSS sites.
Veerle’s Blog has a nice CSS Calendar that you may want to check out.

Take a look at this CSS Zen Garden submission, the CSS Ocean (be sure to view this entry in Firefox or Opera to see the full effect).

Joshuaink.com has an article on A simple introduction to 3 column layouts in CSS.
While I was at Joshuaink.com I found out that solarDreamStudios has all kinds of Fireworks MX 2004 tutorials. I think it’s a good idea to try to do a few web tutorials a week; it gives you an opportunity to learn new techniques that aren’t [...]

There are six new designs at the CSS Zen Garden including Moss by Mani Sheriar, a former student. Way to go Mani!

Light Seek has put together a thumbnail gallery of the various entries in the CSS Zen Garden. This should be nice way to browse the beautiful garden.

List-u-like is a CSS Generator that creates cross browser navigation bars. Pretty nifty!

I started skimming my new copy of the Zen of CSS design last night and found a link in the "Closing thoughts" section of the book that you may find useful; it’s a CSS Cribsheet.
Molly Holzschlag is the co-author of the Zen of CSS design, her wonderful web site is located at http://www.molly.com. She currently has an [...]