Strictly speaking, one other person and myself are collaborating on a website. Recently, she proposed a change to several images that are included on every page. I didn't personally think this was necessary to begin with, but she felt it was, so I reluctantly agreed to see what she could come up with. Just recently, she showed me what s...
Recently Aetna suffered a breach where it lost 65,000 SSNs. They never were able to find an audit trail of what happened which probably hints that the attack leveraged XSS or similar technique. Are there specific known attacks that the bad guys are repeatedly leveraging for this type of attack? ...
we have a website where the left navigation has lot of links. These links are painted based on a users 'function'. There is a screen where an Admin user can Create a new function and assign it to some users. The problem is that once the new function is created, our code has to be changed because inside our left navigation page we have ...
When are appropriate situations to use the target="_blank" attribute on your hyperlinks? edit: To clarify, I know the syntax will open a new browser window. What I am asking is when is it appropriate to do so? ...
I have a webapplication, developed and ready to be deployed. The web part of it was designed using M$ FrontPage. None of the developers cared about proprietary weird tags that FrontPage inserts into HTML. I don't remember tags on top of my head, but I remember seeing tags such as <webbot> and etc. Now, my client doesn't want to see a bun...
Is it possible to to have: A patterned body background image for the main page, Followed by another background image on top of the first one (this time a picture on the right hand side, on edge of the page) The content (using semi-trrasparent gif is overlayed across the body background images) should be scrollable whilst both backgrou...
I am designing a blog and I am trying to decide if I should have a sidebar or if I should just move that content to the header/footer. What is your opinion on this? Do you have any opinion on the header/footer total height? ...
How do I turn the site I just made (html+css) into a template? I want to be able to have one master template to use for all the pages on my site like I am able to do in dreamweaver, can I do stuff like that outside of DW? I am kinda sorta new to this.... ...
I was wondering how to approach design of a website in terms of layout/design.What kind of process designers usually follow ?I am a developer who is taking first steps to develop a good looking website.What are the best practices - using divs, grid design etc. ...
In my opinion treeviews are overused, therefor I don't really care for them. Sometimes they're necessary but I can imaging that one could always find a good alternative to the standard treeview. What are some other innovative ways to display hierarchical information that convey the same information without the drab of a treeview? Which ...
While converting a webdesign given as a photoshop file to html+css, I got confused with font sizes. As seen on the image below, 30 px in photoshop does not equal 30 px in other Windows programs (different on Mac or others?), or browsers. This seems to be unaffected by creating the photoshop image in different resolutions than 72 which is...
Is there an existing framework that satisfies the needs of your projects with minor modifications, or have you developed your own along the way? What do you recommend for someone trying to make that decision with these priorities: CSS reset Attention to typography; baseline grid Semantic classes Accessibility Lots of "Helper" classes: ...
my css is located at http://sillybean.net/css/seaglass.css . i want to use this css for only one of html table. in the same page, i have multiple html tables. i do not want to affect other html tables. what is the fastest way to do it with less modification on http://sillybean.net/css/seaglass.css ? ...
Are there any good tools to easily test how HTML email will look across different email clients? I prefer something with instant feed back rather than a submit and wait service like http://litmusapp.com Or at the very least a way to test the Outlook 2007/MS Word rendering? I found this related question but it doesn't specifically addres...
Specifically, I am referring to a situation where you need to have a total width of say 100% on a DIV, but a 10 pixel padding and 1 pixel border. (And don't rely on the browser automatically setting it to that width — say it's floated left for instance.) Is there any simple way to accomplish this without using JavaScript? ...
We are looking for an icon library that is open licensed. We want to use the icons as a prototype not the final version of the application, but they need to be open to use. EDIT 1: Even though many of the responses are good and useful, I will mark as correct answer the one with more votes. First because I like it, and second because ...
Im designing a website, and often I need to present information in a nice table, or need a nice button, etc... I need recommendations for any websites which have a large collection of these elements which I could just use, instead of designing my own. Thanks!! ...
This font in this image from the WhiteHouse looks very professional. What is the font? Is it just Times New Roman? Also, does anybody know how to use CSS to create something just like the image below? (So I can keep everything else in that image but change the text) Thanks!! ...
Has anybody made a website theme for the iPhone? Please let me know any tips or resources. Here's my theory: How to make a website theme for iPhone Create a website theme designed for desktop monitors. Try not to make any element larger than 320px (iPhone screen resolution). Create 2 style sheets. One for desktop monitors and another...
If there's empty space below the content in a web page (above the fold), should the footer be just below the content or should it be displayed at the bottom of the visible screen? What's the consensus? ...