Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

Photoshop and Illustrator are two of the most indispensable tools for web and graphic designers. For those of us who are always looking to learn more and improve skills, there are plenty of great tutorials out there for each of these programs. Most designers feel a bit more comfortable in one over the other as a result of more experience [...]

Event takes place on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 @ 9:00 a.m. at Temple Isaiah, 3800 Mt. Diablo Blvd., Lafayette, CA 94549. Tough times call for tough talk. And nobody does it better than career advice expert Marty Nemko. Known for such topics as Do What You Love and You’ll Probably Starve, Nemko brings his unique brand of job search tough [...]

Lovely Charts is a cool, online tool for creating Flowcharts, Sitemaps, Network Diagrams, People Diagrams, Basic Symbols, and Wireframes. These charts can be exported to PDF, jpeg, and PNG and then they can be imported into other applications like Word or Excel for printing. Charts can also be saved on the Lovely Chart site. This is a free service, but [...]

SEO is such a hot topic these days. How do you get your web site within the first page or two of the search engines? How do you increase your Google page rank? There are companies who dedicate themselves full time to doing SEO at a pretty penny. Something a lot of people can’t necessarily afford to pay for or [...]

It’s been almost three years since I compiled a list of Firefox Extensions for Web Developers. There are many new extensions that you may find useful when developing Websites. Instead of reinventing the wheel, instantShift has compiled a list of 26 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers. I would also recommend FireScope, a new reference add-on from SitePoint that integrates [...]

When creating a logo design, it’s good practice to use a vector-based application to construct it so that you’ll have a flexible logo design that can be used in numerous print and web-based mediums. Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard when it comes to creating vector-based logo designs. In this collection, you will find 15 hand-picked tutorials from a variety [...]

Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard when it comes to creating web page layouts. Photoshop’s versatility, robust set of tools, and excellent workflow management make it the web designer’s preferred application when creating designs for the web. In this collection, you’ll find 40 high-quality tutorials on creating web layouts from scratch using Photoshop. This article contains a copious variety of tutorials [...]

Due to negative student feedback, I have selected a new book for the JavaScript unit. We will now use JavaScript The Missing Manual, which includes more hands-on tutorials and was written by David Sawyer McFarland, the author of CSS The Missing Manual. Hopefully, students will be pleased with the new JavaScript unit – the explanations seem clearer and there are [...]

To be a web designer means to have a flexible professionalism that enables to make a project, to create a design respecting and reflecting the customers needs. Obviously each web designer has his own method and preferred tools. However there are some programs that can not be excluded in creating a web design. Photoshop is one of these programs. Continue [...]

There are plenty of open source applications that can help you tremendously as a web designer. Open source projects are great not only because of their price tag (free), but also because of the passionate community that typically forms around them. In these economic times, it’s often a worthwhile endeavor to see places where you can conserve, and open source [...]