Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Very exciting news today; our main office has authorized an adjustment of our classroom hours. The new classes will be 12:15-4:15 p.m. and 4:15-6:15 p.m, both classes will meet Monday-Friday. I think the new hours will give more people an opportunity to attend our program; these new time slots should work better for people who are working, in [...]

CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 2 is now available. If you missed the first installment, read CSS 2.1 selectors, Part 1 first. Since so many of you are working on the CSS unit now, these would be great articles for you to review.
W3C Compliance and SEO – learn why W3C compliance can improve your search engine ranking.
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Some of you have mentioned to me that the current class forum is difficult to navigate. I tend to agree, the forum itself seems to be a bit clumsy. Currently we are using a content management system called Xoops. I decided to test some of the different content management systems to see if another platform would meet [...]

Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Resume – Katharine Hansen offers ten tips for improving your resume. You may also be interested in reading this post made on Craigslist on Tips for applying to a job from Craigslist – Good tips for making your cover letter stand out from the rest. 25 Words That Can Hurt Your Résumé may [...]

A List Apart (ALA) has a new article, CSS Swag: Multi-Column Lists, that discusses how to create multiple column ordered and unordered lists. A List Apart also has another new article, Introducing the CSS3 Multi-Column Module. I would recommend this article to students who have experimented with CSS columns and who are interested in what future [...]

The Essential Web-Dev-Bookmarks have been updated. This is a terrific resource for everyone!
If you are using Firefox a lot, you may find this list of Firefox shortcut keys useful.
Ever feel overwhelmed by email? Michael Angier’s article Top Ten Ways to Handle Email Overload may help.
How Google Works – an easy to understand overview of how [...]

Since many of you are now creating external style sheets, I thought I would post some CSS cheat sheets and reference materials to help you with some of the properties and values used in CSS. You may want to add these to your Del.icio.us links or print them out.
I Love Jack Daniels – CSS Cheat Sheet
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PC Magazine has a short article on how to upsample your images. Good techniques if you need to increase the size of a jpeg image for printing.
Top 7 Tricks For Getting an Interview includes some interesting suggestions for how to get an interview. Since most of you are currently looking for employment, you may want to take a [...]

Supplement to Tutorial 3 – HTML and XHTML by Patrick Carey
I’m frustrated with parts of the HTML and XHTML book by Patrick Carey that we are currently using in class. I could switch books, but it’s difficult to find a book that combines all of the building blocks of web design, XHTML, CSS, some JavaScript, and is comprehensive enough [...]

How To Nail A Sexy Layout – Part One, Skeletize, Visualize, and Nakedize – Steps to building a sexy, standards based layout.
23 Photo Sharing – a new, free photo sharing site.
The Aging Process – Most people want to make themselves look younger, but Worth1000 has a Photoshop tutorial on making yourself or someone else age. If you enjoy working [...]