Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Workshop Prep: Please create a folder called f2o in your PM directory (drive F:\) using Windows Explorer. Move the photo gallery that you would like to upload into the f2o folder. For our workshop today I thought I would post a few resources on removing objects from photos: Removing a person or object from a photo – This technique uses [...]

Here is a challenge for students who have completed Flash. Try to Build A Video Jigsaw Puzzle in Flash. The Weekly Standards features corporate web sites that use standards based design.

I have added some notes to the XHTML assignment sheet from the author of the book Patrick Carey. Additional Case 3 page ADD 29 cannot be validated using a strict DTD (DOCTYPE) with the CreditRoll.class file and an applet tag. Use a transitional DTD until we have this problem resolved.

I was hunting around for a site that included information on the default spacing between block level elements in HTML. This has proven to be difficult to find since browsers tend to be inconsistent in their display. We’ve explored this issue of inconsistency in class and on the blog. I will point you to a couple of archive posts: Common [...]

Photoshop’s High Pass Filter – Veerle outlines how to use Photoshop’s High Pass Filter to sharpen your photos. Joshuaink has a great article on web fashion. While you’re there read Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens… WebColor-Kit is a web utility for selecting colors for web sites. What’s different about this color tool is that you select a background [...]

These are a few general notes on XHTML and CSS for my Macromedia presentation today. My presentation today really confirmed my belief that before attempting to use Dreamweaver or any other HTML editor it’s important to have a basic knowledge of HTML/XHTML and CSS. Before the invention of Dreamweaver, FrontPage, GoLive and the other popular web page creation tools, most [...]

Many of you have been working on creating your own CSS layouts. When developing these layouts you must decide whether to use floats vs. absolute or relative positioning. I thought I would post a few articles that may help with the decision making process: 456 Berea St. – Fixed or fluid width? Elastic! InformitIT – Integrated Web Design: Position This! [...]

I have updated my class sample site to include the New Perspectives Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 web sites. I have also removed the old HTML book solutions. The catalystdb.sql SQL file used in tutorial09/tutorial of your Dreamweaver book (Page 489 #5) is problematic. I have written a new SQL file called catalystdb.sql that you should download and use instead of [...]

In Appendix B of your HTML/XHTML books there is an HTML Character Entities chart. The problem is that some of the codes on this chart will not validate. Evolt has an excellent Simple Character Entity Chart that should be used instead of the appendix in your book.

CSS Drive is a categorized CSS gallery and examples. There are some really wonderful examples of sites designed with CSS on this site. The Early Bird Catches the CSS: Planning Structural HTML – an excellent article on writing structural HTML. What I really liked about the article was the table at the bottom of the page that displayed HTML attributes [...]