Resources for Web Development Students @ Robin’s Blog

By the time you complete the ROP Web Design and Development Program you should have created several live Web sites to share with employers via projects that are required during the course. Web Designers/Developers, artists, and photographers create Web-based portfolios to showcase their work. You may find it difficult to get started creating your own portfolio, so here are some [...]

Photoshop has tons of potential for improving photos in one way or another. No matter how much experience you have with Photoshop there is probably more that you can learn in these areas. This is a categorized collection of tutorials that will show you some new tricks for photo touch-ups.
Continue reading 60 Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Touch-Ups

Web designers know that the industry involves plenty of change, and continuous adaption and development of skills is required in order to stay up to date. In the past few years, one of the biggest areas of change has been the amount of Internet users who are accessing websites via phones and mobile devices. As a result, Web designers have [...]

cPanel is a Web based control panel for your hosting account that has many tools to help you easily maintain your Web site. Without cPanel you would have to use Telnet, a command line interface, to manage daily tasks on your Web site – this would mean learning Unix/Unix-like commands.
With cPanel’s graphical tools you can change your account password, create [...]

What Is White Space?
Put simply, white space is the space between different elements of a design – the area between text, images, paragraphs, headers, footers, links, etc. It is the space between different elements on a page, the space between letters, and the space between lines in a paragraph.
White space allows for easier scanning of a website. It reduces the [...]

Web and graphic designers are always looking for excellent sources of inspiration. Of course, web design and CSS galleries are common sources, but there are countless websites that provide inspiration from other types of design. In this post you’ll find categories such as product design, architecture, fashion, illustration, logo design, typography, motion graphics, and more.
Continue reading Design Inspiration Toolbox: 100 [...]

The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.
Visit the Web Development Project Estimator

It seems that just over the last year the quality of Photoshop tutorials have really improved. There have always been a plethora of Photoshop tutorial sites out there, but much of their content was sub par and not very educating.
Today, however, there are plenty of high quality Photoshop tutorials floating around the web. Below you will find a list of [...]

Adobe Photoshop is a very powerful and versatile image editing/graphics creation application that is the industry standard in its category. Though Photoshop’s interface is intuitive enough for an absolute beginner to learn basic image editing tasks such as cropping and resizing, to be able to fully master and utilize all of its tools takes a considerable amount of time.
If you’re [...]

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Buy two books from www.oreilly.com and get the third free by using discount code OPC10 in their shopping cart. All orders over $29.95 qualify for free shipping within the US.
O’Reilly publishes many series that we use in the Web Design and Development program including: the Missing Manuals, Head First, Dynamic Learning, One-on-One, and numerous [...]