Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

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 source code of [...]

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 installed fonts, you may [...]

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 button. If [...]

I updated the phpMyAdmin tutorial to include creating tables.

For students who are working with PHP/MySQL in Dreamweaver I have a tutorial forimporting SQL tables into f2o using phpMyAdmin that you may find helpful. We have encountered some issues trying to import SQL files (text files with the SQL statements) into f2o with phpMyAdmin. I have added notes on how to correct this issue to the tutorial and you [...]

When Andrew Krespanis of leftjustified.net stopped by this blog and left us some tips I was so darn excited. What a nice thing to do! So I ventured back over to his site, which I’ve been meaning to do anyway, and I found this presentation Making Complex CSS Simple: Site in an Hour. My little wheels were turning and I [...]

There is a lot of buzz on the design sites about designing for handheld devices. With virtually all of the new handheld devices (cell phones & PDAS) offering some kind of web access and usability improving more and more people are turning to their handheld devices to access the Internet when they’re away from their desktop computers. We’re currently researching [...]

It seems that on a daily basis we can count on a student’s cell phone loudly ringing several times during class. Class is further disrupted by the phone being answered with a loud “Hello” in the middle of the room. This has become a joke in class with students and I threatening to collect a dollar for each class disruption; [...]

I was reading SimpleBits this morning and there was a link to Design Eye for the Idea Guy which outlines the process of redesigning a site for a client, Dirk Knemeyer. Excellent sample logos, color choices, typeface samples, wireframes, and photography ideas are shared on these pages. The pages should give you inspiration and a lot of planning assistance. Of [...]

Searchfreefonts.com is a huge font site with no pop-ups. You can search for fonts or browse font categories. Dave Shea has put his notes and slide presentation on How to be Beautiful: More Hi-Fi Design With CSS from his panel discussion at SXSW. The slide presentation is amazing! Fawny, Joe Clark’s personal blog, also has some notes on the same [...]