Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Photoshop Elements 4.0 releases this week. You can read more at the NY Times or at Adobe’s web site. Phong.com has a variety of Photoshop tutorials including advanced techniques like masking, patterns, and photo stitching. Have you heard about BackPack yet? With Backpack you can: Organize to do lists, notes, images, and photos Plan a personal or business trip Keep [...]

PC Magazine has a short article on how to upsample your images. Good techniques if you need to increase the size of a jpeg image for printing. Top 7 Tricks For Getting an Interview includes some interesting suggestions for how to get an interview. Since most of you are currently looking for employment, you may want to take a look. [...]

The Jackol’s Den has an htaccess cheat sheet that you may want to print and add to your resources. You can learn more about other ways the .htaccess file is used in the article Server Move. The .htaccess file can be used to prevent hotlinking as discussed in class yesterday. Speaking of cheat sheets, Code by Matt, has cheat sheets [...]

There are two books that I would like to recommend to all of my students: Web Designer’s Reference Web Standards Solutions These are both excellent books for learning about XHTML, CSS, and building standards compliant web sites. I have found that they are both very easy to read and provide a wealth of information to the new web developer. Web [...]

How To Nail A Sexy Layout – Part One, Skeletize, Visualize, and Nakedize – Steps to building a sexy, standards based layout. 23 Photo Sharing – a new, free photo sharing site. The Aging Process – Most people want to make themselves look younger, but Worth1000 has a Photoshop tutorial on making yourself or someone else age. If you enjoy [...]

Rob and I are feeling settled in our new home, but we’re exhausted. We still have a few things to finish up at the old house (yard work, etc.) and I have some boxes in this gargare to empty, but otherwise we’re done. Eventually, we want to do some painting and I will put up some photos/artwork on the walls, [...]

Get Cooking with Photoshop and CSS – 3 Low-fat Recipes – a tutorial by Corrie Haffly on how to combine Photoshop and CSS to create a great looking site! CSS Tests – a variety of CSS example/test pages. GooRSS would you like to search Google for informative sites with RSS feeds on a particular subject? Now you can with GooRSS. [...]

Quick Start Your Design with XHTML Templates – Just like the title says, a set of templates to help you to start web projects. PhotoshopSupport.com has a lot of quick tutorials and nice plugins and actions for Photoshop. Since we’ve been talking about digital photography, LifeHack has a Digital Photography HOWTO roundup of helpful links to resources and tutorials. LifeHacker [...]

Norman and I were discussing photography and the pro’s and con’s of shooting images in RAW mode. Most digital cameras output the images in JPEG format; this means that the camera processes the image in order to convert it to the JPEG format; this process often leads to a degradation of quality. When shooting in RAW mode, your chances of [...]

For about six months I have been debating on whether to upgrade my “everyday” camera, the Canon G2. I love the Canon series cameras; they’re easy to use and take wonderful photos. I also have a Canon 10D, but in all honesty, it’s very cumbersome. I love to use the 10D for weddings, portraits, my pets, and day outings, but [...]