Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

You may have noticed that a lot of web sites have a small icon next to their URL in the address bar; this icon/image is called a FavIcon. You can create your own FavIcon with a photo/logo or any graphic at FavIcons from Pics. From the opening page, browse to the file you want to convert to a FavIcon. Once [...]

I ran across TechSupportAlert which has a list of the 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities. TechSupportAlert also has an extensive list of freeware/shareware sites. TechSupportAlert has a lot of great, free information; be sure to check out the rest of the site. Free is so good! Of course there are lots of freeware sites out there, one of my favorites is [...]

Print and review the welcome to class letter (Word document format), this contains a lot of helpful information about class. Visit and explore the classroom web site at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/. The classroom web site includes all of the assignment sheets, project information, and other relevant class materials. Visit and explore http://www.tinkertech.net/. Here you will find tutorials related to class and helpful [...]

If you have created a blog here in class you may now be facing comment spam. WordPress has filters and options to protect your blog against comment spam (found in Options > Discussion), but I thought you may find this article on how to stop comment spam from SitePoint interesting. While we’re on the subject of spam, Georgia had mentioned [...]

My Blogger presentation went very well this morning. I had an issue with my laptop, I left it on the roof of the car, but no real damage was done. The presentation itself went really well, I would say I had 55-60 participants. My favorite evaluation comment was “YOU ROCK!”. How cool is that? Another instructor came to me after [...]

I have been collecting some sites to share with you all, but it seems that everyday I find something else that I want to post. These sites have been open in my Firefox browser and it’s time to free up some resources. Since today is the last day of class for so many, I thought it would be best if [...]

PimpMySafari is a Safari Extension site (Plugins, Bookmarklets) created by Jon Hicks.

MaxDesign has a web standards checklist that you should bookmark and print. It includes a basic checklist of items that should be included and checked on every web site that you create. It also has more detailed information on each item along with links to sites where you can research the topic in more detail. A PDF version of this [...]

Bernadette asked me today if there was a book that listed all of the CSS properties and of course there are, but why don’t we save some money. Instead check out Brian Wilson’s CSS Property Index at Index dot CSS, it’s quite comprehensive (including CSS properties, values and browser support) and a must bookmark! This site can help you with [...]

On page HTML 361 of your XHTML book it discusses contextual selectors and selector patterns. I found a really good article by Adrian Senior on CSS Selectors: Pattern Matching and Inheritance that does a great job of explaning the document tree, the relationship between elements, and how to define CSS tules based on those relationships.