Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

This is a roundup of wonderful design related articles.
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Web Design Resources Roundup

Hints, Tips And [...]

drweb.de has a nice collection of 35 free fonts that you can download for your graphic projects.

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Jackol’s Den has an htaccess cheat sheet that you may want to print and add to your resources. You can learn more about other ways the .htaccess file is used in the article Server Move. The .htaccess file can be used to prevent hotlinking as discussed in class yesterday.
Speaking of cheat sheets, Code by Matt, has [...]

Time has compiled its 50 coolest web site list for 2005. Take a look at these top 50 sites layout, design and content.
StopDesign has a new article on Zoom Layouts for accessibility.
CSS design for the future: workaround vs hacks – a discussion of hacks vs. workarounds in CSS.
Communicating error messages accessibly. This article addresses the need to write clean [...]

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 [...]

Since most of you will be in a postition to have to provide feedback or receive critiques regarding web site designs and usability, I thought that you might find this article by Scott Berkun on How to give and receive criticism helpful.
WhatTheFont? allows you to submit images of fonts that you are trying to identify to [...]

I mentioned a few of programs today during our workshop.

Gimp is a free image editor
Irfanview is a free image viewer that can be used to convert and optimize images
The Adobe Studio Exchange has all kinds of free Photoshop actions, filters, brushes, and other goodies.
Photofiltre is also a free image editor

I personally use BreezeBrowser to view images from [...]

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 [...]