Roger's Spot On The Web

Designing in black and white makes some extremely cool, very clean looking sites. Noupe.com does a great job highlighting a few of these…

The more I have become involved in coding, the more I realize I need to be organized – most of the coding I’m involved with amounts to a repetition of steps. I’ve started using Codebox to keep my snippets searchable and accessible. However, to load the snippets into Codebox (and to add to my set of coding tools), I frequent snippler.com, a community focussing on building a great code repository

Here is an interesting web site about Dieter Rams. Talk about someone that “gets” design: http://www.vitsoe.com/en/gb/about/dieterrams/gooddesign

Dieter Rams inspired Jon Ive.

This article covers a great gamut of techniques to use in Photoshop:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/09/useful-photoshop-tips-and-tricks-for-photo-retouching/

The Design Shack offers a pretty decent article on preparing for your first design job interview. It definitely reads like you should have some practical experience as well as a degree.

http://designshack.co.uk/articles/business-articles/how-to-prepare-for-your-first-design-job-interview

One key to building a website is to be able to build a workable plan. SmashingMagazine.com has a great article on planning based on things such as the size and complexity of your website. See http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/01/19/cleaning-up-the-mess-how-to-keep-your-coding-workflow-organized/

For students looking for a little assistance with understanding CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), I have found a good resource: http://www.impressivewebs.com/css-terms-definitions/ which helps you learn some of terminology.