Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

My Blogger presentation went very well this morning. I had an issue with my laptop, I left it on the roof of the car, but no real damage was done. The presentation itself went really well, I would say I had 55-60 participants. My favorite evaluation comment was “YOU ROCK!”. How cool is that? Another instructor came to me after [...]

Robin Good has a great article on Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles which includes links to some excellent free stock image sites including stock.xchng. He also has a review of a free digital image editor called Photofiltre that looks really interesting and worth a download. A CSS Rounded Box Generator anyone? Cameron [...]

There are times that you may want to use a font in a graphic program without installing it to your system. Having too many installed fonts uses valuable system resources and slows down your computer. Fonts are installed in the folder C:\Windows\Fonts (winnt\fonts on some systems). While MS says you can have as many as 1,000 installed fonts, you may [...]

Searchfreefonts.com is a huge font site with no pop-ups. You can search for fonts or browse font categories. Dave Shea has put his notes and slide presentation on How to be Beautiful: More Hi-Fi Design With CSS from his panel discussion at SXSW. The slide presentation is amazing! Fawny, Joe Clark’s personal blog, also has some notes on the same [...]