Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

There are six new designs at the CSS Zen Garden including Moss by Mani Sheriar, a former student. Way to go Mani!

For those of you who are using a Mac you may want to check out CSS Edit by MacRabbit. I installed this CSS Editor on our Mac in the classroom.
To see additional CSS and HTML/XHTML editors visit CSSDiscuss. Right now I am trying out TSW’s WebCoder for the classroom (freeware) and StyleMaster for home use.

Some students have asked me how I manage to keep up with everything in the classroom and how I find such a variety of sites for them to visit. First off, Google is my best friend. I use the Google toolbar to quickly perform general searches when I need to find info on something fast.
I used to always use [...]

Light Seek has put together a thumbnail gallery of the various entries in the CSS Zen Garden. This should be nice way to browse the beautiful garden.

List-u-like is a CSS Generator that creates cross browser navigation bars. Pretty nifty!

I started skimming my new copy of the Zen of CSS design last night and found a link in the "Closing thoughts" section of the book that you may find useful; it’s a CSS Cribsheet.
Molly Holzschlag is the co-author of the Zen of CSS design, her wonderful web site is located at http://www.molly.com. She currently has an [...]

Zooiblog has an article on fixed positioning and backgrounds; I thought you might be interested in this since it mentions the PNG transparency hack we were discussing a couple of weeks ago.
WebCredible has a condense, informative article on CSS hacks and Browser Dectection. This is a really good page to print out and add to your web tricks binder. [...]

456 Berea Street has a nice list of Efficient CSS with shorthand properties. While you’re there, take the time to read Basics of search engine optimisation.

Why standards-compliant HTML matters, a rather timely article on standards compliance.

To go along with our CSS theme of late, Evolt.com has an article on 10 CSS Tricks You May Not Know, the original article by Trenton Moss can be found at his site, webcredible.
And All that Malarkey has a variety of articles on web standards, CSS, and web development; be sure to read Web Standards Trifle and CSS: [...]