Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

This morning on the KRON news I saw two shopping search engines that you may find useful: Cairo helps you to find the best deal in town. Enter your zip code and the item that you’re looking to buy and Cairo will search for sales in your area for that item. It will even display a thumbnail of the newspaper [...]

It’s a good idea to periodically backup your Dreamweaver site settings. When you backup your site settings the backup file is saved with an *.ste extension. This file includes your Remote site information (FTP username, login name, and password), Local Site Information, (the local path to your root folder), and any testing server information you may have setup. This is [...]

I’m in the process of creating a new image to be deployed in our classroom. This image will include all of the software programs that we currently use in class and I’m adding a few new goodies. I was wondering if there were any freeware software applications or Firefox Extensions that you would like to see installed on all the [...]

Let’s try this tutorial A Fireworks Quickie – Using Text as a Mask today in class @ 2:30 p.m.. Be sure to have a photo available to work with. Here are my results: StyleGala has an interesting article, No more CSS Hacks, on using PHP detect browsers and serve CSS accordingly. A Few Tips On Estimating Web Projects may be [...]

A few hints on using the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop to remove objects from photos. Open the image that you want to work with. You can practice with this image of a church with a telephone pole and lots of other objects: removeobjectsmall.jpg Rotate the Image by 90 degrees counter clockwise. Image > Rotate Canvas > 90 CCW. Set [...]

Since most of you will be in a postition to have to provide feedback or receive critiques regarding web site designs and usability, I thought that you might find this article by Scott Berkun on How to give and receive criticism helpful. WhatTheFont? allows you to submit images of fonts that you are trying to identify to a font forum [...]

Here are some of the galleries from out photographic adventure on May 17. Lillian – http://llee.f2o.org/photogallery/ Rebecca – http://rebecca.f2o.org/farmer Georgia – http://gwill.f2o.org/psslideshow/index.html Yvonne – http://yvonne.f2o.org/samplegallery/index.htm Yoko – http://aimawaru.f2o.org/paint/index.htm If you didn’t send me your gallery address, please add it to the comments below. We want to see your results!

Workshop Prep: Please create a folder called f2o in your PM directory (drive F:\) using Windows Explorer. Move the photo gallery that you would like to upload into the f2o folder. For our workshop today I thought I would post a few resources on removing objects from photos: Removing a person or object from a photo – This technique uses [...]

Jason Santa Maria has a great article on Maintaining Motivation when you’re a freelancer. I think this is a good article for everyone to read. MarkTAW.com also has an article on Getting Things Done. I’m starting to see a theme here. For those of you working on the PHP/MySQL unit, bookmark and print these MySQL and PHP cheatsheets. I love [...]

Last week I showed your browsershots.org for testing your web sites, this week I have one better, BrowserCam.com. From the BrowserCam web site: “Frequently web pages will look dramatically different depending on the configuration of the visitor’s computer. Internet users utilize a broad range of operating systems, browsers, screen resolutions, and plug-ins. Nothing is more tedious for Web Developers and [...]