Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Without a doubt, a logical and structured layout is the best way to go. Not only because your layout varies between browsers, but also because CSS has a lot of ways to position every element you have. Today we wanted to share with you some quick tips on how to avoid easy pitfalls when creating your CSS layout. Continue reading [...]

CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right. Today we are presenting a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! This is just the first series , [...]

CSS can powerfully open the doors to a lot of rich and unique techniques. Today we are presenting a round-up of CSS coding, creative approaches and techniques. Definitely worth taking a very close look at! We also included some basic techniques you can probably use in every project you are developing. This is just the third article in this series [...]

Eric Meyer has posted his reset styles CSS for the public on his blog. The CSS will help you to reduce browser inconsistencies like different margins, padding and line height. It’s a good idea to use a reset CSS file any time you are creating a new site or page. Check out the reset styles CSS.

Smashing Magazine offers another great roundup of 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the [...]

SitePoint has a new CSS Reference site that you may find useful. It includes the following topics: What Is CSS? General Syntax and Nomenclature At-rules Reference Selector Reference The Cascade, Specificity, and Inheritance CSS Layout and Formatting Box Properties Layout Properties List Properties Table Properties Color and Backgrounds Typographical Properties Generated Content User Interface Properties Paged Media Properties Vendor-specific Properties [...]

Noupe has a wonderful roundup of 101 CSS techniques. CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right. Today we are presenting a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close [...]

Internet Explorer 6 isn’t perfect, far from it, but unfortunately while the user base for the outdated browser is still high, it’s in our best interest as designers and website owners to ensure that our sites work correctly for the majority if not all of our users. There are bugs and problems with Internet Explorer 6 (and even IE7) but [...]

There is a terrific list of freeware software for Web designers over at TechnoTarget. There are descriptions and screen captures of each application. Smashing Magazine has links to 100 Excellent WordPress Free Themes including a screen capture for each theme. You should definitely bookmark this site since we discussed WordPress yesterday and will work with it more over the next [...]

Since we just discussed using frameworks in class I thought Frameworks for Designers was a good article for you to review. It discusses the benefits of developing a framework and goes into some detail on how to develop your own.