Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

A great article from Smashing Magazine on keeping your HTML/XHTML code clean. It’s best to establish good coding habits now while you are learning.
Beautiful HTML is the foundation of a beautiful website. When I teach people about CSS, I always begin by telling them that good CSS can only exist with equally good HTML markup. A house is only as [...]

Cheat sheet is a reference tool that provides simple, brief instructions for accomplishing a specific task. We have collated a set of best cheat sheets for web developers. It includes some of the popular programming language, e.g. jQuery, Mootools, Prototype, PHP, MySQL and etc.
Check out the cheat sheets at Web Appers

Tabs are fundamental to web design, Nowadays Animated Tabs and accordions are used by most websites, here we have collected 30+ Tab-Based and Accordion scripts vary from CSS only tabs ,Ajax based, mootools and jQuery with cool Animation . which you can easily incorporate into your future designs
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Imagine that you are designing an online-store. Since stakeholders are only interested in the number of sells, the success of your work directly depends on how well you manage to drive users to the “Checkout”-button. In this case you might want to consider some design approaches which will set you apart from your competitors. After all, the probability that they’ve [...]

There is a terrific list of freeware software for Web designers over at TechnoTarget. There are descriptions and screen captures of each application.
Smashing Magazine has links to 100 Excellent WordPress Free Themes including a screen capture for each theme. You should definitely bookmark this site since we discussed WordPress yesterday and will work with it [...]

Since we just discussed using frameworks in class I thought Frameworks for Designers was a good article for you to review. It discusses the benefits of developing a framework and goes into some detail on how to develop your own.

Print and review the XHTML assignment sheet at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/webdes/htmlxhtml04.htm.
Write down errors that are noted on the assignment sheet in your book. This will help you to remember to refer back to the assignment sheet for helpful tips.
If possible, read the lesson/chapter the night before you start it.
Always check the online version of the assignment sheet before you [...]

Part 3, Evaluating website accessibility, of the three part series on accessibility from 456 Berea Street is now available.
If you haven’t read the first two parts of this series, check the March 16 archive for links.

456 Berea Street has two new articles on web site accessibility. These are the first two articles in a three part web site accessibility series.

Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 1, Background and Preparation
Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 2, Basic Checkpoints
These are excellent accessibility articles that should be read by everyone enrolled in the web program. They will provide [...]

A collection of 40 CSS layouts is now available at Layout Gala. This is a wonderful collection of templates that you can use to get started when you’re building a CSS based web site.
I mentioned how useful cheat sheets were yesterday. Here are a few cheat sheets that you may want to print and add to your class [...]