Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

The Web Developers Field Guide has always been a terrific one-stop-shop for Web development resources. Definitely a site worth bookmarking whether you’re looking for inspiration or Ajax resources.

SitePoint has a new CSS Reference site that you may find useful. It includes the following topics:

What Is CSS?
General Syntax and Nomenclature
At-rules Reference
Selector Reference
The Cascade, Specificity, and Inheritance
CSS Layout and Formatting
Box Properties
Layout Properties
List Properties
Table Properties
Color and Backgrounds
Typographical Properties
Generated Content
User Interface Properties
Paged Media Properties
Vendor-specific Properties
Workarounds, Filters, and Hacks
Differences Between HTML and XHTML
Alphabetic Property Index

If you haven’t checked out the rest [...]

Rolland had asked about contract for Web designers and developers last week and I just came across this roundup of Graphic Designer Contracts Agreements Forms & Web Designers Contracts.
Contracts and forms for designers are an important part of any design business. No matter if you are a graphic designer or web designer, a solid contract or good pre-project questionnaire can [...]

I found some excellent articles at Chromatic Sites Web Technology on developing professional Web sites that I think all of the Web development students should read.
The first article focuses on the process of great Web design and details the three stages: conceptualization and planning, modeling, and execution.

The process of web design can be compared to the process of writing a [...]

Noupe has a wonderful roundup of 101 CSS techniques.

CSS has fundamentally changed web design, it has provided designers with a set of properties that can be tweaked to make various techniques to make your pages just look right.
Today we are presenting a round-up of 101 CSS techniques designers use all the time. Definitely worth taking a very close look [...]

Michael purchased Adobe Creative Suite at MacWorld. He was kind enough to contact Creation Engine about extending the discount pricing and they are continuing their show special until January 31, 2008. You will need to have a student ID that you can fax or email to them after you place your order.
Details are at http://www.creationengine.com/macworld2008

Smashing Magazine has pulled together a list of the best Flash tutorials. There are over 25 tutorials and sites for you to check out.

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

Check out Splashup, an online image editor and creator. This is a Web based image editor, no software installation is required. With Splashup you can even create and edit images with multiple layers. This online image editor even has filters and layer effects. Splashup can be used to create Web graphics and/or to edit digital photos. Splashup is very [...]

Internet Explorer 6 isn’t perfect, far from it, but unfortunately while the user base for the outdated browser is still high, it’s in our best interest as designers and website owners to ensure that our sites work correctly for the majority if not all of our users.
There are bugs and problems with Internet Explorer 6 (and even IE7) but you [...]