Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Imagine that you are designing an online-store. Since stakeholders are only interested in the number of sells, the success of your work directly depends on how well you manage to drive users to the “Checkout”-button. In this case you might want to consider some design approaches which will set you apart from your competitors. After all, the probability that they’ve [...]

Grid systems allow a Web developer to layout pages in an organized and easy to read manner. There are many articles on the Web about using grid systems and also many tools for designing with grids. I thought I would outline some of the articles and tools that you might find useful:
A good place to start learning about grid [...]

Digital Web Magazine, an outstanding resource for web developers, has an excellent series of articles on design. The first three articles have been mentioned here before, but here are links to the articles:

Principles of Design at Digital Web Magazine
Elements of Design at Digital Web Magazine

Designing for the Web at Digital Web Magazine

Part four of this series, A Web Design [...]

Designing for the Web is an excellent article that discusses the constraints a designer must face when developing a web page/site. The article discusses resolution, browsers, percentage vs. pixel based design, color, graphics, text, and accessibility and usability.
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Seems that web design and development trends for 2006 is the hot topic in blog land. Both Cameron Moll and Andy Budd have posts about the web development trends in the new year.
There are also several articles and posts on fonts and typography surfacing lately. SitePoint offers The Anatomy of Web Fonts which is a good article [...]

The subject of email design comes up quite a bit in class. I thought you might find this article Email Design Guidelines for 2006 helpful.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Remember, no class on Friday, 09/09/05. Enjoy the long weekend! It might be a perfect day to get out and do some photography or play some golf.
Lifehacker has an article on setting up your own home web server. I haven’t tried this out yet, but it looks easy to follow.
Seth Godin is offering a free [...]

A couple of months ago I had recommended that you visit the CSS Reboot site to look at the designs. The CSS Reboot site now contains thumbnail images of all of the new designs.
During the same timeframe, May 1st Reboot was also occurring. May 1st Reboot is a community project that brings together web professionals from all [...]