Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

On page HTML 361 of your XHTML book it discusses contextual selectors and selector patterns. I found a really good article by Adrian Senior on CSS Selectors: Pattern Matching and Inheritance that does a great job of explaning the document tree, the relationship between elements, and how to define CSS tules based on those relationships.

Robin Good has a great article on Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles which includes links to some excellent free stock image sites including stock.xchng. He also has a review of a free digital image editor called Photofiltre that looks really interesting and worth a download. A CSS Rounded Box Generator anyone? Cameron [...]

Adobe CS2 is now available to order at Academic Superstore. The product will not actually ship until late April. If you recently purchased any Adobe CS product, you should check with the vendor to see if you qualify for a free upgrade!

I wrote this article several months ago, but we were discussing spyware in class today so I thought I would add it to the blog. Please add any useful tools (with a link) you may have used to help combat spyware to the comments section. Spyware Tools What is spyware? Spyware is bits of software that helps a company gather [...]

Recently I joined CommunityMx, which is a community that supports and maintains high quality, fresh Macromedia web development articles, tutorials, and extensions. I have debated over the last year about whether to join this community (it’s not free, they charge a monthly fee) and finally decided to join after finding out that almost all of the PositionIsEverything content had been [...]

If you are interested in learning the current trends in browser usage, operating systems, and screen resolutions, the W3Schools maintains a Browser Statistics page that tracks these statistics by month. The W3Schools has so much great content be sure to check out the rest of the site during your visit.

I know that several of you are looking to purchase your first digital camera. C|Net has a reviews on some of the ultracompact cameras currently on the market. You can find more camera reviews at C|Net and be sure to check out their Editor’s Top Picks. Besides the reviews there is a pretty extensive guide to buying a digital camera. [...]

This Saturday I will be presenting at the California Association of Regional Occupational Centers and Programs. I have been asked to present a workshop on creating a simple instructional web site for teachers. I’ve done this type of workshop in the past, but I usually use Dreamweaver or whatever software I’m asked to use to create this type of site. [...]

CSS Reboot “is a community project that brings together web professionals from all over and encourages them to collectively launch redesigns of their sites on May 1st.” You can see the participants in this exciting project here. AListApart has a couple of new articles that you may find interesting, Hybrid CSS Dropdowns and Spruced Up Site Maps. Mezzoblue has a [...]

I have to start by saying that the Site-in-an-hour exercise was one of the most valuable lessons that I have completed in a long time. I really learned a lot. I forgot to include several images in the img folder; please copy the siteinanhour folder to your user directory again. Here’s what you should do: Type the XHTML code in [...]