is it still relevant to consider these? i don't do much work on the graphics side of things, but recently i set the backgound colour of a webpage (using CSS) to the same background colour used within images on the page. #312F32. it looked fine on different machines in the office, but at home on my shinny new mac (and a few others since) ...
After seeing a friend using RapidWeaver and producing wonderful results in a few clicks, I was astonished and started searching if a tool like that exists for Windows. Unfortunately, so far my search yielded no result, so I'm writing here the criteria I'm using hoping that anybody will come up with a relevant suggestion: WYSIWYG HTML e...
I'm new to Ruby on Rails and I'm sure this question is pretty stupid, but I can't deduce the answer from the examples I've seen, perhaps I haven't seen many good ones. A website I am working on will have 'boxes' (i.e. widgets) in one side bar that will contain dynamic content, and it will also have links on the other sidebar to sections...
I am a web developer based in London, UK. As part of my personal website, I include examples of projects I have worked on. This includes projects that I have worked on personally along with projects I have worked on during my time with two previous employers. One of these employers is now insistant that I should remove all work from my ...
I do a lot of web apps that mainly rely on forms and I'm wondering of there is some nice HTML/CSS template I could use, at least for my demos. ...
I'm trying to change text-selection on my HTML page. I want to change the hex value in css for the selected text whenever i select some text from para. How can i do that in CSS ? For example as shown in this image below it is changing color to cyan. Is it possible to do ? if So How ? any field in CSS ? ...
I'm building a test technology for verifying web implementations against a specification. For this, I need a lite, easy to use, GUI design tool which allows me to create rectangles and define relationships between them. I imagine the tool would have a CAD-like interface. Since I'm modeling web designs, I want to constrain the user so t...
I want to analyze examples of poorly designed web sites and well-designed web sites. Specifically, I want to look for and document ideas that I should and should not use in my own web site. Additionally, I need to understand the following: A discussion of the HTML source code: • Do anyone understand it? • Is it well written and c...
how would you handle a client who wants you to implement a website layout that looks horrible and is wrong in many many ways, when they absolutely think it is great, really "different" and cool and since you are a programmer, you don't know anything about design. i have tried arguing, reasoning and not caring, but it pains me physically...
I am looking forward to pros/cons on using 960 grid css framework. When using grid css framework I feel that I am back to the old days using table to do all the layouts. Because everything is defined as classes <div class="grid_3 prefix_10">. And this seems to me is mixing the layout with html. If you look at csszengarden I really don’t ...
Hi, I have a website where a user has to solve problems.After user submits the solution,he is informed whether his solution was right or wrong.Now,the issue is when the user is using a screen reader.The reader reads the whole page again before it reaches the response(right/wrong).I want that as soon as response comes back, first thing s...
I made a css menu with css sprites but the problem is with sprite we don't use inline image we use in background only so if images are disabled in browser then nothing will show . any solution for this ? For example : See this menu and turn off images : http://line25.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/css-menu/demo/demo.html (it will not be s...
Hi, Say DB has three tables: Customer, Order and Products. DAL layer could use just one class ( aka one data access logical component ) to perform CRUD operations on all three tables, or it could use three different classes (aka three different logical components): 1) Customer Data Access Logic Component 2) Order Data Access Logic C...
Hi, I want to know, In an organization who handles planning of the website structure and function for every section? What are the Steps or Workflow? I am sometime amaze with big sites that are well structure and is easy to access. As a freelance designer I have created some small sites but doesn't really need a big planning. The clien...
I need to load a page with an iframe in a way that its header is hidden. I tried the following but for some reason it isn't working: <div style="width:945px; height:600px; overflow:hidden;"> <iframe src="innerpage.html" frameborder="0" height="700" scrolling="no" width="945" style="top:...
Can CSS be bidirectional or is a stylesheet inherently tied to the direction of script (RTL vs. LTR)? I.e. can one and a single stylesheet work for both left-to-right (English) and right-to-left (Hebrew) languages? If so, what are guidelines to take into account? If no, how can a ltr stylesheet be transformed to rtl? ...
I was reading through this tutorial on creating a web layout in Photoshop to end up with something like this: This seems to produce a single image file, however and there is no explanation of how to translate this into a web application implementation. What I mean is, you would need to have functionality for when someone clicks on "...
There are firms which critique sites from the stand point of user experience and usability. They cost thousands. I am cheap and have little money for that! :) I would like to get critiques from volunteer web designers who know a thing or two about good online experience and good web design. Any online resources like forums where people...
I thought that an html form has no effect on the layout of a page, and that it is just a way to group fields to send their values to the server in a single request. However, I notices that when I remove the form tag, the layout changes. Where can I find an explanation of visual effects of the <form> tag? ...
I'm having a hard time with a simple css snippet for footer text. The footer text must always be at the end of the page and the end of the screen whatever comes later. ...