Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

This morning on the KRON news I saw two shopping search engines that you may find useful: Cairo helps you to find the best deal in town. Enter your zip code and the item that you’re looking to buy and Cairo will search for sales in your area for that item. It will even display a thumbnail of the newspaper [...]

Let’s try this tutorial A Fireworks Quickie – Using Text as a Mask today in class @ 2:30 p.m.. Be sure to have a photo available to work with. Here are my results: StyleGala has an interesting article, No more CSS Hacks, on using PHP detect browsers and serve CSS accordingly. A Few Tips On Estimating Web Projects may be [...]

Jason Santa Maria has a great article on Maintaining Motivation when you’re a freelancer. I think this is a good article for everyone to read. MarkTAW.com also has an article on Getting Things Done. I’m starting to see a theme here. For those of you working on the PHP/MySQL unit, bookmark and print these MySQL and PHP cheatsheets. I love [...]

Modular stylesheets at Content with Style is an article about grouping related styles into separate stylesheets. A CSS Framework illustrates the basic steps to creating a reusable CSS framework that can be used on different project. I know that some of you really enjoy Photoshop, so I thought you might like to enter some of the Photoshop contests at Worth1000.com. [...]

On Friday we will use my basic photo editing in Photoshop as an outline for our workshop. You may want to print the tutorial and download and save the images associated with the tutorial before Friday. I also have some basic scanning directions for HP and Epson scanners for today’s lecture. Special Note: In order to use the scanner in [...]

Transparent custom corners and borders – This technique, displayed at 456 Berea, for creating flexible and transparent boxes looks wonderful; I can’t wait to try it. So much to learn, so little time! While you’re there, read and bookmark Usability testing without a budget. When you start creating “live” sites you will need to conduct usability testing and if you’re [...]

Stu Nichols demonstrates a CSS method of achiving min-width in Internet Explorer. This is very useful technique when you want a column to resize depending on the visitor’s browser, but you want to maintain a minimum column width. Most browsers support the CSS min-width property, but IE does not. In order to maintain a minimum width on a column in [...]

I was hunting around for a site that included information on the default spacing between block level elements in HTML. This has proven to be difficult to find since browsers tend to be inconsistent in their display. We’ve explored this issue of inconsistency in class and on the blog. I will point you to a couple of archive posts: Common [...]

Photoshop’s High Pass Filter – Veerle outlines how to use Photoshop’s High Pass Filter to sharpen your photos. Joshuaink has a great article on web fashion. While you’re there read Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens… WebColor-Kit is a web utility for selecting colors for web sites. What’s different about this color tool is that you select a background [...]

I have made a change to the blog archives. It is common for blogs to only display “excerpts” of posts in the archives. In order to see the entire post you have to click the post title. I think this has been a bit confusing for new bloggers who use this site. Now when you use one of the category [...]