Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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 [...]

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 Website to the [...]

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 and [...]

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 [...]

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.
The 35 [...]

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! [...]

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 [...]

Making Your Resume Stand Out on Craigslist
With over 6,000 resumes posted to just the Bay Area section of Craigslist, how do your resume stand out from the rest?
Style it! When you’re posting your resume on Craigslist you can use HTML and basic inline CSS to control the look of your resume or any other posting. Here is a [...]