Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

The following books are in stock in the classroom:
CSS Anthology 101 Essential Tips, Tricks, and Hacks (15 copies)- $28.00
Dreamweaver MX 2004 The Missing Manual (4 copies) – $25.00
Flash Hacks (1 copy) – $18.00
Dreamweaver in a Nutshell (1 copy) – $22.00
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If you are a student in my class you are probably learning that the CSS styles that you are writing may look good in Internet Explorer (Windows), but not in Firefox/Opera and visa-versa. At times you may have to use what are referred to as “hacks” in your CSS code to get your site to look good across all browsers. [...]

I have become concerned lately with the amount of time spent on job search activities in class. While I understand the most students’ number one priority is finding a job, I fear that job search activities are interfering with completing the course curriculum.
I want to be flexible and allow students to work on job search activities [...]

The 2005 Bloggie winners have been announced. You can see the best of the best at http://2005.bloggies.com/

del.icio.us is a social bookmark manager. Just what the heck does that mean? Well, you can store your bookmarks online, share them with others, and browse other user’s bookmarks. It’s a “social” system because you can see what other people are bookmarking and they can see what you bookmark.
del.icio.us integrates nicely with WordPress; the [...]

Scriptygoddess has wonderful scripts for WordPress, MovableType and PHP in general. Be sure to check the site archives to see what other goodies are available.
While I’m on the subject of WordPress, here are a few other WordPress resources you may want to visit:
WordPress Codex – Lists WordPress plugins, tutorials, themes, hacks and other useful information related to [...]

The WordPress installation tutorial has been updated for version 1.5.
Marjie has already installed the new version of WordPress on her site and has been working with the styles.css file. She has done a great job styling her blog so far. Since I haven’t styled this blog yet, I am nominating Marjie to be the [...]

Online Image Resizer – Resize your digital photographs online. Free, easy to use, very cool! Creating Online also has a free image editor. You can do basic color correction, crop and resize, and add text and clip art. Max. dimensions 1200 x 1600 pixels, max. file size 1.5 MB.

A file association is an association between a file and a software program. Files on PCs have typically three letter file extensions like, .doc, .xls, .htm. These three letter extensions associate the file with a sofware program that is used to edit/open the file. For example, .doc files are associated with Microsoft Word, .xls files are associated [...]

It is very important to get into the habit of proofreading your HTML code. Here are a few tips for proofreading. Thank you to Dale Mead for his additional suggestions on proofing.

Proofread, proofread, proofread. Then proofread more.
JavaScript is case sensitive, MyVar is different from myvar
Make sure that all variables are named [...]