Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

I teach computer applications and web page design to adults in sunny California. I’ve been doing this for longer than I care to admit, but I can honestly say that I still love my job.
This blog will be used for me to share web sites, articles, tips, and other interesting items that relate to web [...]

Zooiblog has an article on fixed positioning and backgrounds; I thought you might be interested in this since it mentions the PNG transparency hack we were discussing a couple of weeks ago.
WebCredible has a condense, informative article on CSS hacks and Browser Dectection. This is a really good page to print out and add to your web tricks binder. [...]

456 Berea Street has a nice list of Efficient CSS with shorthand properties. While you’re there, take the time to read Basics of search engine optimisation.

Why standards-compliant HTML matters, a rather timely article on standards compliance.

To go along with our CSS theme of late, Evolt.com has an article on 10 CSS Tricks You May Not Know, the original article by Trenton Moss can be found at his site, webcredible.
And All that Malarkey has a variety of articles on web standards, CSS, and web development; be sure to read Web Standards Trifle and CSS: [...]

Steve Dolphin has a really nice Color Scheme Selector that should be helpful when you’re deciding the colors that you want to use for your web site. You may also want to check out the other tutorials and resources on his site.

Last week Mani Sheriar of Sheriar Designs spoke to our class about separating content from style. She gave us a lot of wonderful tips on CSS design and I have written up some notes from her talk that you can find below.
Relatively Absolute – This is the article that made positioning "click" for Mani. After visiting the site, I [...]

ArtPad is a part of Art.com, an online retailer of fine art posters. At ArtPad you can draw your own beautiful creations or just doodle. It’s a neat service and it’s free. You can also sign up for a free account at Art.com and upload your own photos for selling, printing, or just sharing with family and friends.

Preventing Hotlinking – After finding that several of my images were being "hotlinked" to without my permission, I replaced existing images with this one and sites started looking like this. I then found a good article on the problem of Hotlinking at NetMechanic. This article led me to The SiteWizard.com and a fix for the problem using an .htaccess file. [...]

1/25/05 – New tutorial for Setting up Testing Servers. This includes a free testing server bundle called WAMP5 Server that you can install at home. WAMP5 includes Apache, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin. The tutorial covers installing and configuring WAMP. The tutorial also includes installing the Coldfusion module, installing IIS (Internet Information Server), and administering MySQL databases with phyMyAdmin. There [...]