Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

You may have noticed that a lot of web sites have a small icon next to their URL in the address bar; this icon/image is called a FavIcon. You can create your own FavIcon with a photo/logo or any graphic at FavIcons from Pics. From the opening page, browse to the file you want to convert [...]

Print and review the welcome to class letter (Word document format), this contains a lot of helpful information about class.
Visit and explore the classroom web site at http://pclab.cccoe.k12.ca.us/. The classroom web site includes all of the assignment sheets, project information, and other relevant class materials.
Visit and explore http://www.tinkertech.net/. Here you will find tutorials related to class [...]

MaxDesign has a web standards checklist that you should bookmark and print. It includes a basic checklist of items that should be included and checked on every web site that you create. It also has more detailed information on each item along with links to sites where you can research the topic in more detail. A [...]

I have encouraged all of you to download and install some of the powerful extensions that are available for Firefox. Did you know that you can check to see if there are updated versions of your currently installed extensions from within Firefox? Click Tools > Extensions, select the extension you would like to update and click the Update [...]

It is very important to get into the habit of proofreading your HTML code. Here are a few tips for proofreading. Thank you to Dale Mead for his additional suggestions on proofing.

Proofread, proofread, proofread. Then proofread more.
JavaScript is case sensitive, MyVar is different from myvar
Make sure that all variables are named [...]

Why standards-compliant HTML matters, a rather timely article on standards compliance.

Preventing Hotlinking – After finding that several of my images were being "hotlinked" to without my permission, I replaced existing images with this one and sites started looking like this. I then found a good article on the problem of Hotlinking at NetMechanic. This article led me to The SiteWizard.com and a fix for the problem using an .htaccess file. [...]