Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

You could write a book on website optimization, in fact people already have. But, here’s 10 really easy steps to getting your sites optimized for speed. Hopefully this will get you started and you’ll want to investigate front end optimization a little further.
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I thought I would share some links to articles on pricing Web projects and creating contracts, and forms. Before you meet with a client you need to determine how you will charge (by the hour or per project) and have all of your contracts and other forms ready.
These projects vary in scope, but should give you some food for [...]

Whether you’re a Web developer, Web designer or blogger, you’ve probably had to deal with the headache of converting many images to different sizes and formats. It’s not much fun if you have to convert all of them by hand. Batch image processing can reduce this process from hours of work to just a few simple clicks.
With batch image processing, [...]

These tools will create a variety of images that you can use as backgrounds for your Web pages.
Visit 8 Addictive and Fun Background Generators for Designers

As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and inspiration on what design elements, website features, and website content is effective.
To help you in your analysis, here are 15 [...]

This site was built to help web developers quickly select and test website color combinations.
The heart of the site is the Combo Tester, which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen.
If you are looking for Color Combination ideas, check out the Combo Library. The library contains hundreds of color swatches, along with their [...]

It’s been about 7 months since the original Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of was published, and in that time there have been many more noteworthy tutorials released. With all of that new content , it’s only appropriate to put out a second edition of the best Illustrator tutorials. In this post you’ll find some basic tutorials on getting started with [...]

The grunge movement in design combines rips, tears, decay, smears and scratches to form a dark and gritty result. Here we’ve collected fifty of the best ever Photoshop grunge tutorials for your enjoyment and education.
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The main idea behind CSS-based layouts is offering more flexibility and enhancing the visual experience of visitors. Some important tips and related key-factors can help to learn basics and keep essential techniques in mind. And this is what this article is all about. Finding the perfect Layout that have Total Flexibility, Equal Height Columns and just works fine.
So we’ve decided [...]

Tabs are fundamental to web design, Nowadays Animated Tabs and accordions are used by most websites, here we have collected 30+ Tab-Based and Accordion scripts vary from CSS only tabs ,Ajax based, mootools and jQuery with cool Animation . which you can easily incorporate into your future designs
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