Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Steve Dolphin has a really nice Color Scheme Selector that should be helpful when you’re deciding the colors that you want to use for your web site. You may also want to check out the other tutorials and resources on his site.

Last week Mani Sheriar of Sheriar Designs spoke to our class about separating content from style. She gave us a lot of wonderful tips on CSS design and I have written up some notes from her talk that you can find below.
Relatively Absolute – This is the article that made positioning "click" for Mani. After visiting the site, I [...]

Preventing Hotlinking – After finding that several of my images were being "hotlinked" to without my permission, I replaced existing images with this one and sites started looking like this. I then found a good article on the problem of Hotlinking at NetMechanic. This article led me to The SiteWizard.com and a fix for the problem using an .htaccess file. [...]

1/25/05 – New tutorial for Setting up Testing Servers. This includes a free testing server bundle called WAMP5 Server that you can install at home. WAMP5 includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin. The tutorial covers installing and configuring WAMP. The tutorial also includes installing the Coldfusion module, installing IIS (Internet Information Server), and administering MySQL databases with phyMyAdmin. There [...]