Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I mentioned a few of programs today during our workshop. Gimp is a free image editor Irfanview is a free image viewer that can be used to convert and optimize images The Adobe Studio Exchange has all kinds of free Photoshop actions, filters, brushes, and other goodies. Photofiltre is also a free image editor I personally use BreezeBrowser to view [...]

So I was actually reading the “entire” article that I posted for you earlier, Simple Design Tips for Non-Designers, and I came across cool technique that Garrett, the same author, demonstrates in Need a color palette? Just pixelate. You can use Photoshop to create a complimentary color palette from your favorite photo using the Mosaic Filter (Filters > Pixelate > [...]

On Friday we will use my basic photo editing in Photoshop as an outline for our workshop. You may want to print the tutorial and download and save the images associated with the tutorial before Friday. I also have some basic scanning directions for HP and Epson scanners for today’s lecture. Special Note: In order to use the scanner in [...]

Well, I can’t say that I was very happy with my photos from yesterday’s field trip. I guess it wasn’t my day with the camera and I don’t know that the overcast weather helped. I do hope that you all were able to get some good shots! But wasn’t Jill and her band awesome?! I have a whole new appreciation [...]

I got a call for a part-time receptionist postion in Lafayette. They’re looking for someone with small office experience. Phones, filing, Word and Excel. Applicants must have a pleasant phone manner and a professional appearance. Please let me know if you’re interested and I will give you the contact information.

Photography is creative. Instead of my giving you a list of objects to find and shoot on 5/17, I would like you to take a photo that best represents the following words: Motion/Action Play Beauty Old Patterns Texture Cool Natural Saturated Fun Soft Delicious Half the fun of this exercise will be to see everyone’s interpretation of each of the [...]

Transparent custom corners and borders – This technique, displayed at 456 Berea, for creating flexible and transparent boxes looks wonderful; I can’t wait to try it. So much to learn, so little time! While you’re there, read and bookmark Usability testing without a budget. When you start creating “live” sites you will need to conduct usability testing and if you’re [...]

At the beginning of class I discussed attendance. While I want to be flexible with all of you, I feel that’s it’s imparetive that class attendance improves. Last week I learned that another computer class, similar to ours, will be closed in June. A medical class will be opened in its place. This closure is due to low enrollment/poor attendance. [...]

I mentioned the tutorials at Web Design from Scratch on May 5th. I would like you all to spend some time this week reviewing and analyzing the Redesign Case Studies at their site. I found a Client Spec sheet (PDF) format that I thought you might find useful when you’re planning a web site. The Web Redesign 2.0 web site [...]

Stu Nichols demonstrates a CSS method of achiving min-width in Internet Explorer. This is very useful technique when you want a column to resize depending on the visitor’s browser, but you want to maintain a minimum column width. Most browsers support the CSS min-width property, but IE does not. In order to maintain a minimum width on a column in [...]