Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I just finished reading Sexy Web Design Create Your Own Stunning Web Interfaces That Just Work by Elliot Jay Stocks and I wasn’t disappointed. This book gives a detailed look at the process of creating a Web design. The book is divided into six chapters: Interfaces – Gives an overview of the design process. Essentially this is a nice overview [...]

Tripwire Magazine has compiled a terrific Mega CSS Resources Roundup that is a must bookmark for student. It includes cheatsheets (CSS HTML/XHTML, and color), excellent CSS resource sites and articles for beginners, free templates, positioning articles, articles on styling forms, typography articles and resources, graphing techniques, frameworks, numerous menu options, and tools to optimize your CSS and enhance your workflow. [...]

Thousands of graphic, Web development and design related tutorials are available on the Internet. Still, it’s difficult to find tutorials that a beginner can follow. So many tutorials are written for other designers and developers and unfortunately, they lack the detail that’s necessary for someone who is learning. I’m not quite sure why this is – I think it’s the [...]

This is a roundup of wonderful articles that deal with coding Web pages. Most are tips on HTML & CSS, but there are also a few JavaScript and PHP resources. Remember, these are articles I “tweet” on Twitter. Click the @username to see the posts of some of the people who I respect and love to “follow” on Twitter, the [...]

This is a roundup of wonderful design related articles. Remember, these are articles I “tweet” on Twitter. Click the @username to see the posts of some of the people who I respect and love to “follow” on Twitter, the #hashtags to search the related topics, and of course the actual links to read the awesome articles. Web Design Resources Roundup [...]

Recently we have added a WordPress unit to the course curriculum. While it’s not a required unit at this time, I think it’s very important for students to learn how to use WordPress and how to manipulate and create themes (design). This post includes excellent articles, themes, and plugins that I have found over the last two weeks (5/27-6/16). Remember, [...]

This post includes beautiful photos and wonderful photography tips that I’ve seen over the last two weeks (5/27-6/16). Remember, these are articles I “tweet” on Twitter. Click the @username to see the posts of some of the people who I respect and love to “follow” on Twitter, the #hashtags to search the related topics, and of course the actual links [...]

We’ve already established that I love to research, read, learn, and share what I find on the Web. I’m getting some kind of cool nicknames on Twitter, my favorite being “resource monster”. I wish I could get the domain name! Anyway… This post has all of the links that I’ve read over the last two weeks (5/27-6/16)  that relate to [...]

If you are not following me on Twitter, @RobinMWood, you may be missing some of the great articles that I have come across and posted for your review. I am going to start posting them here by topic on a weekly basis, so that we will have an archive of resources for class. When you are looking at the resources [...]

If you are not following me on Twitter, @RobinMWood, you may be missing some of the great articles that I have come across and posted for your review. I am going to start posting them here by topic on a weekly basis, so that we will have an archive of resources for class. When you are looking at the resources [...]