Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

With hundreds of tutorials for creating portfolio layouts and mockups in Photoshop it’s hard to find tutorials that are easy for novice Photoshop users to understand and complete. We have reviewed several tutorials for creating one page portfolio layouts and I feel the following should be easy enough for the beginner to understand. These tutorials will teach you many new [...]

Pievincenzo Madeo, aka @piervix, of PV.M Garage has collected a great set of resources for people who want to learn how to create themes for WordPress. In his post, Become A WordPress Theme Developer Who Rocks In Four Steps (and 50+ readings), Pievincenzo outlines his four step process for developing WordPress themes and includes links to tutorials for developing themes [...]

Thousands of graphic, Web development and design related tutorials are available on the Internet. Still, it’s difficult to find tutorials that a beginner can follow. So many tutorials are written for other designers and developers and unfortunately, they lack the detail that’s necessary for someone who is learning. I’m not quite sure why this is – I think it’s the [...]

If you are not following me on Twitter, @RobinMWood, you may be missing some of the great articles that I have come across and posted for your review. I am going to start posting them here by topic on a weekly basis, so that we will have an archive of resources for class. When you are looking at the resources [...]

This is a roundup of the links I share and retweet. They revolve around Web Development, graphics, computers, freelancing, and job search. Enjoy! RT @mayhemstudios @Jason_Pollock @cheth: 400+ Beautiful twtter Icons 4 yr Website | Blog Godown http://bit.ly/Ni7yC RT @DesignerDepot: 33 Excellent Web Layout #Photoshop Tutorials: http://tinyurl.com/qoyp7h RT @PSDTUTS: 40 Logo Design Tutorials http://bit.ly/OmuMg #photoshop #illustrator Zixpk.com – Gorgeous #wallpapers [...]

While some companies that you may go to work for have their own “corporate branding” already established, many small businesses will need to create their identity for print and online marketing materials. This article includes some of the top resources for logo design that I have found over the last month on Twitter and while visiting some of my favorite [...]

I am republishing this article because so many new resources have been added since the original publishing date. If you know of additional resources that should be added please leave a comment below. Part of the Photoshop class project is to create a Web site mockup. I have recently found several tutorials that may help you to complete this project. [...]

Web Design Schools Guide has compiled a list of 100 Terrific Web Design Cheat Sheets that Will Save you Time, Money and Mistakes. Most web designers know that cheat sheets are incredibly useful. You can use them for quick reference, easy learning, and more. In this list, we’ve compiled an incredible collection of the 100 best and most useful cheat [...]

Six Revisions has created a great list of 70 Excellent Photoshop Resources. In this massive collection of resources, you’ll find all sorts of resources including: tutorial sites, Photoshop Brushes, patterns, Photoshop Actions, showcases/collections, and much more. Check out the 70 Excellent Photoshop Resources at Six Revisions.

Noupe.com, a wonderful news source for designers and developers, has gathered 40+ High Quality Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, Resources & PNG files. Fireworks is an great program for creating Web graphics. It is currently produced by Adobe, but was originally developed by Macromedia. If you don’t already own Photoshop and/or Illustrator you may want to download a trial version of Fireworks [...]