Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

CSS Font and Text Style Wizard – a wizard to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code. You may also like the HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard. Both of these wizards will generate CSS and HTML code for your web pages. 5 Great Background Masking Techniques in Photoshop – this article/tutorial outlines [...]

Open Source Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Designing a Rainbow – Sexy Hot Colors – Lorelle on WordPress has a wonderful roundup of color resources on her blog today. Yummy! graphicPUSH offers a Blog Icon Pack, a set of free icons for your blog [...]

Checking Sites for Consistency One of the really tough parts of web development is getting your site layout consistent in multiple browsers on multiple platforms (Windows (98, 2000, XP), Macintosh, Linux, etc.), with different resolutions when you’re using CSS. You must ensure that your site looks good in various versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla, Safari, and Konqueror [...]

It is very important for you to develop an understanding of designing for handhelds. The book that we are currently using in class is rather “sparse” on the subject. I have pulled together some resources for handheld devices and CSS. Stylesheets for handheld devices The End-All Guide to Small-Screen Web-Dev Mobile Web Design ~ The Series Pocket-Sized Design: Taking Your [...]

Welcome new students! We all hope that you will enjoy the program. There are a couple of articles that I would like you to read today: Important Notes for Students Starting the XHTML Book HTML Character Entities Now for some goodies from around the web: Tracy shared a great resource with me for used books, Abebooks. The prices are terrific [...]

I encourage you to use CSS instead of tables for your XHTML Additional Cases and projects. Creating a multi-column layout with CSS is not always easy. The first thing you should do is determine how you want your page or pages to layout on paper before you ever begin coding (I will really appreciate this when I am helping you!). [...]

Mani Sheriar, a former student and successful designer, has started a blog to accompany her beautiful site. Mani offers CSS and XHTML tips and discussion on her site designs. This is definately a site that you want to watch, I’m sure she’ll be a constant source of amazement for all of you! For you Scott Kelby fans there is now [...]

Position is Everything, a tremendous resource on CSS and standards development, has several new articles available: CSS Hacks and IE7 In Search of the One True Layout On Having Layout Issue 206 is available at ALA, A List Apart. It contains another two article that are worth reading: Good Designers Redesign, Great Designers Realign and Attack of the Zombie Copy. [...]

Dustin Diaz has put together a very nice CSS Shorthand Guide. What’s nice about this guide is that it includes the default value for the property values so you don’t have to guess at what will display if you don’t include a value in your shorthand. CSS Selectors, Part 3 is now available at 456 Berea Street! Here are the [...]

Have you installed the Internet Explorer Developer toolbar? I have been using it for the last few weeks and it’s quite helpful. It offers a lot of the same tools as the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox. This is just a friendly reminder that these tools/extensions will really help when developing web sites. You can find additional helpful Firefox extensions [...]