Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Hi All! I am in Surrey, BC. I got in about 1:30 p.m. and was taken straight to the high school, Guildford Park Secondary, that I will be presenting at tomorrow morning and Saturday. David, you were right, the Vancouver Airport is gorgeous! I’m thinking about a nap, this travel stuff wipes me out. Tomorrow after my presentation I’m going [...]

Ha, you thought you were rid of me! I should be on a plane right now on my way to Canada. Rebecca asked for more resources on learning elements of design; ask and ye shall receive (sometimes). Jill Niles gathered a lot of wonderful art and design resources for your review. The Web Style Guide is a wonderful resource about [...]

Color in Motion – you must go see this! It’s an interactive experience of color communication and color symbolism created in Flash. WhiteSpace has an article on Learning CSS that outlines the why, where and how to learn CSS. The Return of Design – articles, color schemes, resources, and links galore! Combobulate has a list of 76 cool programs that [...]

I’ve written a new tutorial for Fireworks an image editing program by Macromedia. I’m hearing a lot of sighs of frustration in class, so I thought we should take a break and have a little fun and learn how to create some simple graphics.

I just wanted to remind you all that CSS Reboot is happening this Sunday, May 1st. If you get a chance, check out the participants listed on the site today or tomorrow. Write down your current favorites (you may even want to print the front page of their site) so you can visit their site again after May 1st to [...]

Check this out! It’s an image to CSS converter. So cool! If you don’t have an image to use here in class, use this one for now http://www.crabbytalk.com/wp-content/monstereyes.jpg Of course I came right home and started playing with this. While I think it’s an amazing utility, I don’t forsee it being particulary useful at this time. The source code generated [...]

Many of you have been working on creating your own CSS layouts. When developing these layouts you must decide whether to use floats vs. absolute or relative positioning. I thought I would post a few articles that may help with the decision making process: 456 Berea St. – Fixed or fluid width? Elastic! InformitIT – Integrated Web Design: Position This! [...]

Andy Budd has another excellent article on his blog about the ideal web team. This article outlines the five positions/team members that Andy feels are essential to an “ideal” web team. It outlines their the team member’s typical duties and job titles. As always the comments are as good as the articles. Joshuaink.com has an excellent analogy on the differences [...]

Vitaly Friedman has pulled together a wonderful list of bookmarks for web developers. This is a page you want to be sure to bookmark! Aardvark is a useful Firefox extension that you can use to identify block level elements (divs, h1, ul, img, p, table, td, etc.) on web pages. Right click on the page that you want to analyze [...]

I have updated my class sample site to include the New Perspectives Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 web sites. I have also removed the old HTML book solutions. The catalystdb.sql SQL file used in tutorial09/tutorial of your Dreamweaver book (Page 489 #5) is problematic. I have written a new SQL file called catalystdb.sql that you should download and use instead of [...]