Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Continue reading 8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make at Wake Up Later.

Smashing Magazine offers another great roundup of 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.