web-design

How can I explain to clients why they shouldn't use a print designer to design their website?

I have the problem all the time of clients coming to me with their print designer who just wants to give me a design and get me to code it up. I'd prefer to be able to give some input in with considerations for SEO, usability, download size etc, but quite often the designers are of the mind that the design is finished and mustn't be cha...

help for beginner at web dev/design

I was wondering, how does a web designer/developer start out in his buisness with nothing to show (in the sense of a portfolio,) and only his word to show he does good work? How are those people supposed to get buisness? ...

What is a good tool to create a Website Architecture?

We use Balsamiq Mockup to create our website wireframes. After we have that approved we switch to visio to create site architecture. Is there any other tools to record architecture and be able to post functionality later in the process. I was looking into the following SO question, but we are looking for a tool that will allow us to s...

What are the arguments against using a CSS Framework?

Yesterday I asked a question here that got more momentum that what I thought it would. Here is the question link since it is related. I am interested now in the possibility of that using two frameworks together will be worst than using a JS framework and CSS from scratch or the other way around. The question is clear, if you think ...

IE7 shrinking dropdown menu box

Hi. I have the following dropdown menu : <div id="dropdown_menu"> <ul> <li><a>Item1</a></li> <li><a>VeryLongLongLongItem2</a></li> </ul> </div> outer div has position: absolute, the links are highlighted. ('li' and 'a' should be of the width of the widest element in the list, so that a:hover will highlight the whole line - see ...

Making an element "fixed" if it's being scrolled out

So, I have an element on a webpage that is located under some other elements. This element should, whenever it hits the top of the page be fixed (ie. it shouldn't leave the view.) I've seen this being done on the Webkit Inspector in the resources tab. Does anyone know how to replicate this feature/effect? ...

CSS Style Inheritance

Lets say I want to define 2 styles. .color_red { color: Red; } .banner { display: block; width: 100%; } Is there a way that I can have the h1 style inherit the color_red style? I don't want to have to do <div class="banner color_red">This is my banner.</div> I'd prefer to do something like this... .banner { ... inherit: color_red;...

CSS Parent/Ancestor Selector

I know this is a shot in the dark, but is there a way, using css only, CSS2, no jquery, no javascript, to select and style an element's ancestor? I've gone through the selectors but am posting this in case I missed something or there is a clever workaround. For example, say I have a table with classname "test" nested inside a div. Is t...

IE bugs - background color and positioning.

I'm just starting to build a website, and am just fleshing out the css. Two problems: I'm using rgba to get a transparent background, and using a transparent png to emulate this in older browsers. I'm using a cascade like this: rule { background: url(/media/img/white_0.9_pixel.png); background: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); } ...

I need a guidance for designing a gaming web site.

I am a game designer, that means I design a board game, a board design, game rules,etc. I do not design a web site. I am totally unaware of web page designing skill or any other type of software development knowledge. I had designed a board game which blends playing skill along with luck factor. This board game is first of its type. The...

Dynamically resizing the height of div based upon the size/resolution of user's monitor

I have a three row, one column site design and I'd like to have the center content div resize to fit the remainder of the column (height of screen - (hardcoded footerheight + hardcoded header height)). Is there a cute way to do this with CSS? If not, how can I accomplish this with javascript? Thanks, Tom #container { background-colo...

Where can i write CSS Certification Exam (online)

Hi, I am interested in writing CSS Certification Examination through online. Need suggestions to Where can i write(website name), Which one is worthy. Can anyone help me out!!! Thanks in Advance ...

Free icons/images of numbers, say 1 through 100?

For prototyping apps, I'd like to have a set of images purely for prototyping. I thought something great would be to just have images of numbers 1 through 100, preferably in various sizes (say, small, medium, large). So then if they were named something like: 001small.jpg 009small.jpg 003medium.jpg 022large.jpg It would be really easy ...

Best practices for creating a page that full-page zooms well?

I have a layout of fixed-pixel width (960px) with a navigation bar that has five items in it. The width of the nav div is set to 100%, but its content ends up taking exactly 960px. The navigation is a bit complicated with a set of drop-downs and links. The problem is that zooming the page out at all causes the navigation bar to get cli...

whether to use Ajax tabcontrol or use images to give tab control look

I have 4 forms (almost similar with few diference) to take customer service requests. All those forms have similar validations. Now I am developing a website in asp.net 3.5 and I have very short time for delivering that. I want an approach whether to use Ajax tabcontrol with 4 tabs with 4 different usercontrols or single form and just gi...

Is there any scripts/sites to find the z-index of Divs

Hi Everyone, Good Day, I used position:absolute for many div's in my website. I have used nearly 35 - 40 divs with absolute property. Now i have a issue with z-index say some divs get hides, I realize this is because of z-index problem. I never declared z-index in my css. I need to track the z-index of each divs. Is there any program...

Is capitalising a word a good web design approch to emphasize interaction/draw attention?

Hi, I'm involved in a redesign at this point of a site that has capitalised its primary navigation and button text as part of the UI. I have looked around at the competitors in the market and found no one else does this. The business still likes the idea at the moment and I wanted to see what opinions are out there for and against this ...

Step by step process for CSS/HTML layout?

I'm a sometime developer who is trying to get up to speed on customer-facing sites. I have a designer (who has years of experience, but it's all been print, so she's also ramping up on web design) so I'm not looking for design or usability tips. What I am interested in hearing about is the step-by-step process of doing the actual coding ...

Is there a single software for multiple browser testing?

Hi, I was interested to know if there in single software which have multiple browser testing facility? If there is something like that please suggest. I have already heard about browser cam websites which provides screen shots of different browsers. But we need to wait for the screen shot and also it cannot be tested frequently while ...

What is a good site for checking out color schemes for websites with examples.

For instance you chose X,Y and Z colors, and then websites shows you a sort of "Ipsum Lorem" website using your chosen colors. What do you personally use to do this? ...