Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Mani Sheriar has a sample file on her site for the CSS Three Column Liquid Layout you may be interested in reviewing; this might be especially helpful to those of you who are working on your CSS Case Problems. If you have not been to Mani’s site yet, visit. She’s a former student, beautiful designer, and a great supporter of [...]

In Appendix B of your HTML/XHTML books there is an HTML Character Entities chart. The problem is that some of the codes on this chart will not validate. Evolt has an excellent Simple Character Entity Chart that should be used instead of the appendix in your book.

While I was checking the Macromedia web site for some help on a very stupid error that I made. While I was there I found a tutorial that I thought some of you who have completed the PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 unit might enjoy; it’s called Building a Blog with Dreamweaver, PHP, and MySQL. This tutorial [...]

I asked you yesterday to think about the sites that you’ve found most helpful while you have been in class. I know it’s tough to think of just one (ok, how about two), so here is a little food for thought: What site do you visit every day or several times per week? Which site makes you go wow? Which [...]

I know that some of you are about ready to start the PHP Web Development with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 unit. I am still working on the assignment sheet, I have finished it through chapter 6 so you should be able to get started. You can view it here http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/webdes/dreamphp.htm

For those of you who haven’t visited the CSS Zen Garden, visit now. It contains beautiful examples of the power of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). There are six new April designs as of 4/16 for those of you who visit often. After looking at the beauty of the Garden, take a look at this spoof on the Garden, a perfect [...]

It’s a very interesting day in the world of design and web publishing Adobe announced that they will aquire Macromedia for an obscene amount of money. You can read more about this 3.4 billion dollar “integration” deal at Adobe’s web site. Macromedia also has a press release on their site; I found this press release more enlightening. It looks like [...]

Working Smart has an excellent article on the Lost Art of Note-Taking. I am a firm believer in the benefits of taking notes, especially in class. I find that when I’m in a classroom situation taking notes helps me to digest the material being presented; even if I never look at the notes again, the act of writing down the [...]

The assignment sheet for the new Photoshop book, Exploring Photoshop CS, is complete. You can find the assignment sheet and additional information on this book on the class web at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/webdes/photoshopcs.htm. The assignment sheet for the new Illustrator book, Exploring Illustrator CS, is complete. You can find the assignment sheet and additional information on this book on the class web [...]

CSS Drive is a categorized CSS gallery and examples. There are some really wonderful examples of sites designed with CSS on this site. The Early Bird Catches the CSS: Planning Structural HTML – an excellent article on writing structural HTML. What I really liked about the article was the table at the bottom of the page that displayed HTML attributes [...]