Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Quick Reference: Google Advanced Operators – a nice cheat sheet of advanced search operators for Google. This cheat sheet is a part of the GoogleGuide, a comprehensive guide to help you search more effectively. The Open ClipArt Library is a repository or vector clipart. The clipart is free to use and you can submit your own artwork for others to [...]

I needed to find a free file sharing service so that I could bring some files home with me from work. Unfortunately, my CD drive isn’t working on my piece-o-crap Averatec Tablet and I forgot my USB drive at home. I found some recommended resources at About.com and ended up signing up for a 30 day trial account FilesAnywhere.com. The [...]

Jason Santa Maria has a great article on Maintaining Motivation when you’re a freelancer. I think this is a good article for everyone to read. MarkTAW.com also has an article on Getting Things Done. I’m starting to see a theme here. For those of you working on the PHP/MySQL unit, bookmark and print these MySQL and PHP cheatsheets. I love [...]

I have made a change to the blog archives. It is common for blogs to only display “excerpts” of posts in the archives. In order to see the entire post you have to click the post title. I think this has been a bit confusing for new bloggers who use this site. Now when you use one of the category [...]

Evolt has an excellent article on 10 Steps to Higher Search Engine Positioning. May I also recommend that you read Understanding Color and Accessibility, be sure to read the user comments, they can be both educational and entertaining. Did you know that Dan Cody, the founder of f2o.org, was the founder of Evolt?

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.