Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well [...]

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 [...]

As with everything in life, it can be very helpful to know NOT what to do just as much as what to do! If you’re new to job hunting, you’ve probably been reading about how to act during a job interview. You should also be studying how not to act. If there’s a common complaint among many hiring agents and [...]

Vandelay Web Site Design has compiled a list of 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites. In addition to screen captures of each site, there are links to the original sites so you can check them out.

For Chris and the other Mac users in class – Top 100 Essential Mac Applications

Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often used to quickly transform hand-drawn sketches on a sheet of [...]

It can be tough to build pages that work for all viewers. Sooner or later you’ll need to deal with the issue of different browsers showing your lovely pages in different ways. Cross-browser testing is essential to making sure your pages work right, yet it can be a tough load. Installing multiple browsers on your own computer is only the [...]

Smashing Magazine has pulled together a list of the best Photoshop tutorials. There are over 25 tutorials and sites for you to check out. DesignWalker also has a roundup of Photoshop text effect tutorials. Coliss.com has a collection of links to free Photoshop brushes that you can download and use. PSDtuts has loads of Photoshop tutorials for you to try [...]

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Continue reading 8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make at Wake Up Later.

Smashing Magazine offers another great roundup of 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts – and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the [...]