Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

With hundreds of tutorials for creating portfolio layouts and mockups in Photoshop it’s hard to find tutorials that are easy for novice Photoshop users to understand and complete. We have reviewed several tutorials for creating one page portfolio layouts and I feel the following should be easy enough for the beginner to understand. These tutorials will teach you many new [...]

SitePoint is offering a deal on PDF versions of The Principles of Beautiful Web Design and Sexy Web Design. Both PDF design books can be yours for just $14.95for the next 12 hours. These books are both required reading for the Web Design and Development curriculum, so if you haven’t gotten them yet now is a great time! From SitePoint [...]

I just finished reading Sexy Web Design Create Your Own Stunning Web Interfaces That Just Work by Elliot Jay Stocks and I wasn’t disappointed. This book gives a detailed look at the process of creating a Web design. The book is divided into six chapters: Interfaces – Gives an overview of the design process. Essentially this is a nice overview [...]

Tripwire Magazine has compiled a terrific Mega CSS Resources Roundup that is a must bookmark for student. It includes cheatsheets (CSS HTML/XHTML, and color), excellent CSS resource sites and articles for beginners, free templates, positioning articles, articles on styling forms, typography articles and resources, graphing techniques, frameworks, numerous menu options, and tools to optimize your CSS and enhance your workflow. [...]

This is a roundup of wonderful design related articles. Remember, these are articles I “tweet” on Twitter. Click the @username to see the posts of some of the people who I respect and love to “follow” on Twitter, the #hashtags to search the related topics, and of course the actual links to read the awesome articles. Web Design Resources Roundup [...]

While some companies that you may go to work for have their own “corporate branding” already established, many small businesses will need to create their identity for print and online marketing materials. This article includes some of the top resources for logo design that I have found over the last month on Twitter and while visiting some of my favorite [...]

I am republishing this article because so many new resources have been added since the original publishing date. If you know of additional resources that should be added please leave a comment below. Part of the Photoshop class project is to create a Web site mockup. I have recently found several tutorials that may help you to complete this project. [...]

This is a terrific collection of CSS galleries for inspiration and education. As you view the sites be sure to use the Web Developer toolbar in Firefox to view the source code (View Source > View Source) and to view the CSS (CSS > View CSS). Now days CSS Galleries are great for improving your website’s traffic and pagerank. Getting [...]

We Web designers are a fickle lot. We love to experiment with things. We love to observe how people interact with our work. And we love to try out unusual design approaches that might possibly go mainstream and become a classic approach. As result, new design approaches come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use [...]

By the time you complete the ROP Web Design and Development Program you should have created several live Web sites to share with employers via projects that are required during the course. Web Designers/Developers, artists, and photographers create Web-based portfolios to showcase their work. You may find it difficult to get started creating your own portfolio, so here are some [...]