Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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 information about [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just a reminder, tomorrow we will working on the Site-in-an-Hour exercise. There are a few things you should do before class:

Print and read the presentation. You should also read the associated links on the presentation. If you send the first page of the presentation to the printer, the entire presentation will print.
Print and review the [...]

There are times that you may want to use a font in a graphic program without installing it to your system. Having too many installed fonts uses valuable system resources and slows down your computer. Fonts are installed in the folder C:\Windows\Fonts (winnt\fonts on some systems). While MS says you can have as many as 1,000 [...]

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 [...]