Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Graphic Design USA has published their third annual Visual Trends Report for 2005. This report discusses the trends in logo design and mentions Logo Lounge, another site worth visiting.. The Annual Color Forecast is also very informative. SitePoint has a new article on Creating a WireFrame of your site during the planning phases. I would recommend that you all read [...]

In Part I of this series we discussed Snippets in Dreamweaver. This article discusses how to use and create snippets in HomeSite+, a popular HTML editor by Macromedia. Yesterday we discussed some basics of HomeSite. Today we will learn to use and create snippets in HomeSite to further automate the web development process. Open HomeSite. From the Resource Tabs select [...]

Yes, it’s true Macromedia has it’s own HTML/XHTML editor called HomeSite. We have not been using it in class because we had issues with getting it to run on our network. It’s working now and it’s an excellent editor, so I would like to encourage all of you to take a look at HomeSite. You can access HomeSite in class [...]

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 [...]

AIGA and Aquent have conducted their annual design salary survey for 2005. You can use this salary calculator to get an idea of the current salary ranges in the design field by geographic region. There is also a list of position definitions/descriptions.

Snippets are small blocks of reusable code. For example, a doctype statement is used at the top of every XHTML document. Instead of retyping the doctype statement, a snippet can be created that contains this statement and reused in all future XHTML documents. Most web development applications have the ability to create and use snippets. Using and Creating Snippets in [...]

This morning on the KRON news I saw two shopping search engines that you may find useful: Cairo helps you to find the best deal in town. Enter your zip code and the item that you’re looking to buy and Cairo will search for sales in your area for that item. It will even display a thumbnail of the newspaper [...]

It’s a good idea to periodically backup your Dreamweaver site settings. When you backup your site settings the backup file is saved with an *.ste extension. This file includes your Remote site information (FTP username, login name, and password), Local Site Information, (the local path to your root folder), and any testing server information you may have setup. This is [...]

I’m in the process of creating a new image to be deployed in our classroom. This image will include all of the software programs that we currently use in class and I’m adding a few new goodies. I was wondering if there were any freeware software applications or Firefox Extensions that you would like to see installed on all the [...]

Let’s try this tutorial A Fireworks Quickie – Using Text as a Mask today in class @ 2:30 p.m.. Be sure to have a photo available to work with. Here are my results: StyleGala has an interesting article, No more CSS Hacks, on using PHP detect browsers and serve CSS accordingly. A Few Tips On Estimating Web Projects may be [...]