web-design

Do Drupal and YUI play well together?

We are putting together a website for a client and their IT Team have ask us if we can use Drupal and YUI together. We have not use both products before, but we have no reason why not to use them. We have heard good things for both, the only concern that we have is the actual integration, since drupal is a CMS and YUI is a framework....

Screen Resolution & Web Page Problems?

When I change my screen resolution to 800x600, 640x480 and so on half my web page gets cut off including images I cant even use the scroll bar at all to see the rest of the page, I'm using percentages as well as pixels using CSS. Need help fixing? All browsers are affected. Here is a sample. #top { background: #424ee0; margin: 0...

How might I display a "legal drinking age" alert for a website?

I have a website where you're supposed to be 21 or older to buy the wine from this site. How do I put an "alert" up stating that by clicking through to the buy pages you certify that you are 21 years or older? ...

Web Pages Borders & Screen Resolution Problems

When I change my screen resolution my web pages main navigation bottom border magically shrinks half of my web pages length instead of going with the flow of the the web page. How can I fix this problem? The CSS is below. #main-nav { width: 100%; background: black; font-weight: bold; border-bottom: 5px solid blue; fl...

What are the advantages of using CSS Sprites in web applications?

I'm working on a website with reasonably heavy traffic and I'm looking into using a CSS sprite to reduce the number of image loads in its design. Are there any advantages to using a CSS sprite besides reducing the amount of transmitted data? How much space do you really save? Is there a threshold where using sprites becomes worthwhile t...

Why is http://www.shlomifish.org/ Displayed Wrong in MSIE 8?

Hi all! I maintain a personal web-site at http://www.shlomifish.org/ . It is displayed fine in Firefox 3.5, Opera 9.x, Konqueror 4.3 and Internet Explorer (MSIE) 7. However, with MSIE 8 ( 8.0.6001.18702 ) it is displayed completely wrong: there's a large whitespace at the top and I cannot see the left navigation menu. The page valida...

HR tag renders white pixel

In IE8 and mozilla 3.5 theres an white pixel to the right. How can i get rid of that? Seting background-color changes nothing. neither does width. hr { border-top: 1px solid #111; border-bottom: 1px solid #444; } This is how it looks right now Thanks alot! ...

Enterprise web site design help

I am a back-end developer new new to web design. What are some good, online resources for getting started with web site design? Most of the available online site templates have been unsatisfying. Any help on where to get started would be appreciated. Related Learning Design for UI and Website Design ...

Why this web page is suddenly being displayed wrongly in IE7

Hello, I'm having a problem that's intriguing me. I decided make a few changes (in a link and inserting metatags) in the index.php file from my company's site: http://www.expresssignproducts.com and after I uploaded the header pictures were all misaligned in IE7 (others were fine). So I uploaded the previous version of the file... same b...

Strange gap between <div> elements in IE, not in FF or Opera

Hi, I know this kind of question must get asked all the time but I haven't found a solution for my problem yet. Using FF, Opera and the IE that is on Windows 7 (can't remember what it is), the page looks exactly as it should, but using IE7 on Windows Vista, there is a gap between my navigation bar and the rest of the page which frankly...

What is the replacement for a blinking text in a web page?

Hi, I have heard that using blinking text in a page to get user's attention is not a good practice. What is the alternative for that? ...

Is a good idea to use a reset stylesheet in a started project?

I'm working in a long started web project that not use a reset stylesheet. It will be a good idea to include a reset stylesheet given all the things already done? ...

Explaining "Web Application Developer" vs. "Web Site Designer" to prospective clients

How do I go about explaining that I am a "Web Application Developer" and not a "Web Site Designer" to prospective clients - without talking myself out of the project?! Often I am approached to "design a web site" for someone where it turns out to be more of a "brochureware" presentation site and less of a real web application. While I...

Singleton vs Static Preference and Defect

Hi, When we want deploy Web Application should we use singleton Object or use Static instead of? what is the bottleneck for use each of them? I should know about Memory Problem , Concurrency problem and ... . P.S: what happen for the class that was just readable (should use static or Singleton) P.S 2: what happen for the class that wa...

What graphical software is used to design for web?

Until now I have always used Photoshop to create certain effects. But sometimes, no, actually, quite often I find that I can't easily create certain effects. For example, shadows of equal size around a squared bar (I get them slightly narrower on two of four sides), or maybe this Vista-like bar effects. I know I can achieve the results m...

which is the most simple registration form?

Hi all, I think it's a simple question but a little bit complex question too. ;-) What are the required fields for a simple user registration form. I think we don't want to enter all the user details at the first step of the registration, we can set that after the successful registration. sample form First name :_ _ _ _ _ _...

What is the best method for supporting screen sizes in a Web app?

What is the best approach for defining page width of a web app? Most of our users have 19" monitors, but many run the apps from 14" laptops, and some have 24" monitors (assume it's a max resolution). From what I know, the two most common methods are: using fixed width pages or dynamic (max) width (100%). There are problems with either a...

How would you code this: Grid-breaking shapes

I'm a person that learns best from example. Currently, I'm diving into the field of Web Development after fifteen years of developing desktop apps. I'm still getting used to all the web technologies used for developing modern web sites and everywhere I look, I see cool little UI elements and question how they're implemented. So I thought...

How handle the CSS3 Spec. in a useful way?

The CSS3 Specifications are in the main browsers partly implemented and you get very nice results with less code, but there are many reasons not to use CSS3. E.g. not downwardly compatible, probably not similar renderd views on different browsers, etc. So I'm asking myself: Which is the best way to use CSS3 anyway with a option to inter...

Applying borders to a single table cell when using border-collapse

I have a table with the following CSS rules applied: table { border-collapse: collapse; } td { border: 2px solid Gray; } I want certain cells to have a red border, instead. td.special { border: 2px solid Red; } This doesn't work as I'd expect. In FireFox 3 and IE8 it looks like this: In IE7 Compatibility mode (Running in IE8) i...