web-design

What sites offer free, quality web site design templates?

Let's aggregate a list of free quality web site design templates. There are a million of these sites out there, but most are repetitive and boring. I'll start with freeCSStemplates.org I also think other sites should follow some sort of standards, for example here are freeCSStemplates standards Released for FREE under the Creative C...

IE7: header above menu

I am having trouble with IE7. I have a header, which is an IMG. Under it I have a div that represents a menu, they have to be attached to eachother without space in between. Both are 1000px width. In Opera and FireFox the header and the menu are neatly attached to eachother. However, in IE7, there is a small space between the menu DIV an...

When do you use sIFR?

I heard Joel and Jeff talking about sIFR in one of the early podcasts. I've been using it on www.american-data.com and www.chartright.us with some fairly mixed results. Yesterday I was informed that the first line of text on my website appeared upside down in Internet Explorer 6 without flash player. I'm pretty sure that assessment wa...

Browser scrollbar

I have a website that is perfectely centered aligned. The CSS code works fine. The problem doesn't really have to do with CSS. I have headers for each page that perfectely match eachother. However, when the content gets larger, Opera and FireFox show a scrollbar at the left so you can scroll to the content not on the screen. This makes ...

What to charge for a simple website

A friend of a friend has asked me to build a very simple site (a few static pages and a forum which would be setting up and theming an existing forum technology) but I'm not sure what to charge. What do people think would be appropriate? ...

Looking for a Good Resource for Print Designers that are doing Web Design

So, I am working for a magazine, and they are designing their own site. They are awesome designers, but don't know too much about the differences btw print and web. I am NOT a designer, so I know some things but not others. Is there a resource out there, or has does anyone have any suggestions out there that I can give them for guidanc...

Images not displaying in WebKit based browsers

For some strange, bizarre reason, my images in my website just will not display on webkit based languages (such as safari and chrome). This is the image tag `<img src="images/dukkah.jpg" class="imgleft"/>` Not only does it not display in the website, it wont display when accessed directly at http://kilkin.massiveatom.com/kilkin/image...

Is there any easy way to determine what factors are contributing to the size of an HTML element?

For example I have a situation where I have something like this (contrived) example: <div id="outer" style="margin: auto> <div id="inner1" style="float: left">content</div> <div id="inner2" style="float: left">content</div> <div id="inner3" style="float: left">content</div> <br style="clear: both"/> </div> where there ...

Can the HTTP version or headers affect the visual appearance of a web page?

I know, I would have thought the answer was obviously "no" as well, but I am experiencing a strange situation where when I view my site from our staging server it appears slightly larger than when I view it from my local dev server. I have used Charles to confirm that all of the content -- the HTML, the images, the CSS, the javascript, ...

Paint.Net Web Template Tutorials

Does anyone know of any good tutorials for creating a website template (like something you'd find on http://www.oswd.org) using Paint.NET? I don't have a personal copy of Photoshop so I thought I'd see how far I could push Paint.Net. Most of the tutorials I've found are for creating buttons or logos. I'd like to be able to create a we...

Sources of inspiration for navigation breadcrumbs

I'm looking for sources of inspiration and/or design patterns for navigation 'breadcrumbs'. So far I have found the breadcrumb collection on Pattern Tap. Does anyone know of any other sources? ...

Are liquid layouts still relevant?

Now that most of the major browsers support full page zoom (at present, the only notable exception being Google Chrome), are liquid or elastic layouts no longer needed? Is the relative pain of building liquid/elastic layouts worth the effort? Are there any situations where a liquid layout would still be of benefit? Is full page zoom the ...

When is the best time to use <b> and <i> in lieu of <strong> and <em>, if ever?

Semantically speaking, is there an appropriate place in today's websites (late 2008+) where using the bold <b> and italic <i> tags are more useful than the more widely used <strong> and <em> tags? ...

Do you know any examples of a PAC design pattern?

Can anyone point to any websites or web applications that are using the Presentation-Abstraction-Control design pattern rather than MVC? Desktop applications are easy to find like this (e.g.; GIMP) but I'm looking for something on the web. ...

Best place to get a web design as an individual.

As a web developer I'm very adept at putting the site together, but I can't design worth squat. What would be a good place to go for getting a design for my personal website? Some points to think about Modest budget as its just my personal website. Obviously looking for more then just a free template to use Would want some initial inp...

What is the best way to create a security architecture?

I'm designing a portal's security architecture. The site has pages, videos, pictures, users, databases, file system objects, etc. What is the best way to control access to all of these objects? How would you store permissions? Is a 64-bit database variable enough for storing permissions? E.g. Windows employs ACLs and SIDs. Do you have ...

What are some techniques for stored database keys in URL

I have read that using database keys in a URL is a bad thing to do. For instance, My table has 3 fields: ID:int, Title:nvarchar(5), Description:Text I want to create a page that displays a record. Something like ... http://server/viewitem.aspx?id=1234 1) First off, could someone elaborate on why this is a bad thing to do? 2) and se...

Best way to implement a 3-column website using <DIV> tags?

I'm developing a 3-column website using a layout like this: <div id='left' style='left: 0; width: 150px; '> ... </div> <div id='middle' style='left: 150px; right: 200px' > ... </div> <div id='right' style='right: 0; width: 200px; '> ... </div> But, considering the default CSS 'position' property of <DIV>'s is...

What is the easiest or fastest way to make CSS render the same in all browsers

Making a web page display correctly im all major browsers today is a very time consuming task. Is there a easy way to make a CSS style that looks identical in every browser? Or at least do you have some tips to make this work easier? ...

How to stretch an HTML table to 100% of the browser window height?

I'm using a table to design the layout of my web page. I want the table to fill the page even if it doesn't contain much content. Here's the CSS I'm using: html, body { height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0; } #container { min-height: 100%; width: 100%; } And I place something like this in the page code: <table id=...