Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

My Web sites have been moved to my new hosting company, Host Gator. I was very pleased with Host Gator’s service and help with moving my Web sites.
Free student Web hosting for students enrolled in the ROP Web Development Program is back online. This hosting program is not available to the general public. All current students will have to sign [...]

cPanel is a Web based control panel for your hosting account that has many tools to help you easily maintain your Web site. Without cPanel you would have to use Telnet, a command line interface, to manage daily tasks on your Web site – this would mean learning Unix/Unix-like commands.
With cPanel’s graphical tools you can change your account password, create [...]

We will explore CPanel, your hosting account control panel, today. CPanel gives you total control of your hosting account via a Web interface. The following tasks can be completed with CPanel:

Setup mail accounts and read email via the Web
Change your account password
Park a domain
Add FTP accounts
Manage your online files and permissions – upload files
Check your disk space usage
Make [...]

There is a terrific list of freeware software for Web designers over at TechnoTarget. There are descriptions and screen captures of each application.
Smashing Magazine has links to 100 Excellent WordPress Free Themes including a screen capture for each theme. You should definitely bookmark this site since we discussed WordPress yesterday and will work with it [...]

Students enrolled in the ROP Web Development program with me may again sign up for free hosting. This offer is ONLY available for students currently enrolled in my program.
Important Information Before You Sign Up

You must be CURRENTLY ENROLLED in the ROP Web Development class with Robin Wood. Your account will NOT be approved if you are not an ROP [...]

Some ROP students have opted to sign up for paid hosting. If you have a paid hosting account with CPanel management you can setup what is called an Addon Domain. Addon domains allow you to point different domain names to different folders on your account.
For example, I have three sites that I manage, a photography site, [...]

Definition of Terms
Domain Name: www.mydomainname.com – this is the address that people will use to access your web site.
Domain Name Registrar: A service that leases domain names to the public. Many registrars are also hosting companies.
Hosting Company: A company that provides server space for you to store your web site.
Nameserver: The server that associates domain [...]

Free Web Hosting Information
Free web hosting is available to students who are currently enrolled in the ROP Technology Center’s Web Design Program. This hosting program will be available to students for the duration of their course.
Since many of you are approaching chapter four of the XHTML book it’s time to sign up for your free account. You [...]

I uploaded more CPanel and Fantastic hosting tutorials last night. There are over 60 tutorials now available for managing your hosting accounts.
Please take the time to review these tutorials. Learning to properly manage your hosting account is an important part of your training experience.
The tutorials are available @ http://www.robinshosting.com/faq.html. All of the tutorials [...]

I am please to announce that robinshosting.com has acquired CPanel Flash tutorial movies. The purchase of these tutorials was made possible by generous donations from students in the program. The following CPanel tutorials are now available:

Password protecting a directory
How to change your password
Managing a MySQL database in PHPMyAdmin
How to redirect URL
Keeping your contact information up to date
How to [...]