Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I updated the phpMyAdmin tutorial to include creating tables.

For students who are working with PHP/MySQL in Dreamweaver I have a tutorial forimporting SQL tables into f2o using phpMyAdmin that you may find helpful.
We have encountered some issues trying to import SQL files (text files with the SQL statements) into f2o with phpMyAdmin. I have added notes on how to correct this issue to [...]

When Andrew Krespanis of leftjustified.net stopped by this blog and left us some tips I was so darn excited. What a nice thing to do! So I ventured back over to his site, which I’ve been meaning to do anyway, and I found this presentation Making Complex CSS Simple: Site in an Hour. My little wheels were [...]

There is a lot of buzz on the design sites about designing for handheld devices. With virtually all of the new handheld devices (cell phones & PDAS) offering some kind of web access and usability improving more and more people are turning to their handheld devices to access the Internet when they’re away from their desktop computers.
We’re [...]

I was reading SimpleBits this morning and there was a link to Design Eye for the Idea Guy which outlines the process of redesigning a site for a client, Dirk Knemeyer. Excellent sample logos, color choices, typeface samples, wireframes, and photography ideas are shared on these pages. The pages should give you inspiration and a lot of planning [...]

Searchfreefonts.com is a huge font site with no pop-ups. You can search for fonts or browse font categories.
Dave Shea has put his notes and slide presentation on How to be Beautiful: More Hi-Fi Design With CSS from his panel discussion at SXSW. The slide presentation is amazing! Fawny, Joe Clark’s personal blog, also has some notes on [...]

Checky – “Easy to use interface to many free and commercial Online Validation and Analysis Services. Validate and analyse HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, WAI, Section 508, P3P, Hyperlinks, Metadata and many more.”
Web Color Names – Is a color table extension that includes hex values, rgb values, and color names. You can sort the table by [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Dithered.com has a huge listing of CSS filters and hacks. The site includes browser support tables, non-validating hacks, and links to additional information on each hack. This is another site worth bookmarking.
Andy Budd & Jeremy Keith have a great “CSS slideshow” on How to Bluff Your Way in CSS. This is from [...]

If you are a student in my class you are probably learning that the CSS styles that you are writing may look good in Internet Explorer (Windows), but not in Firefox/Opera and visa-versa. At times you may have to use what are referred to as “hacks” in your CSS code to get your site to look good across all browsers. [...]

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