Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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. [...]

The 2005 Bloggie winners have been announced. You can see the best of the best at http://2005.bloggies.com/

del.icio.us is a social bookmark manager. Just what the heck does that mean? Well, you can store your bookmarks online, share them with others, and browse other user’s bookmarks. It’s a “social” system because you can see what other people are bookmarking and they can see what you bookmark. del.icio.us integrates nicely with WordPress; the Del.icio.us Integrator plugin allows the [...]

Scriptygoddess has wonderful scripts for WordPress, MovableType and PHP in general. Be sure to check the site archives to see what other goodies are available. While I’m on the subject of WordPress, here are a few other WordPress resources you may want to visit: WordPress Codex – Lists WordPress plugins, tutorials, themes, hacks and other useful information related to managing [...]

The WordPress installation tutorial has been updated for version 1.5. Marjie has already installed the new version of WordPress on her site and has been working with the styles.css file. She has done a great job styling her blog so far. Since I haven’t styled this blog yet, I am nominating Marjie to be the “WordPress Cascading Styles Sheet Diva” [...]

Online Image Resizer – Resize your digital photographs online. Free, easy to use, very cool! Creating Online also has a free image editor. You can do basic color correction, crop and resize, and add text and clip art. Max. dimensions 1200 x 1600 pixels, max. file size 1.5 MB.

A file association is an association between a file and a software program. Files on PCs have typically three letter file extensions like, .doc, .xls, .htm. These three letter extensions associate the file with a sofware program that is used to edit/open the file. For example, .doc files are associated with Microsoft Word, .xls files are associated with Excel, and [...]

It is very important to get into the habit of proofreading your HTML code. Here are a few tips for proofreading. Thank you to Dale Mead for his additional suggestions on proofing. Proofread, proofread, proofread. Then proofread more. JavaScript is case sensitive, MyVar is different from myvar Make sure that all variables are named the same throughout the entire script [...]

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 [...]

The 2005 Bloggie winners are about to be announced (3/14). These are publically choosen awards for the best weblogs.