This is a best-practice topic. I saw it as a prefer method for some web developers. Instead of doing the CSS layout from scratch, they start a photoshop mockup first and then decode it into CSS. What do you think about this approach? Best to all, ...
In a lot of articles about design, quirks mode is mentioned. Anybody have an idea about this thing in plain text and in a development prospective? ...
Hi, I'm web developer for some time, and got used transforming all my designs into png file format in order to construct my webpages. Despite the fact that png, contrary to jpg, allows transparency in the images, is it a better sollution? The question regards page loading time and best webdesign practices, as well as file size versus ...
Context: I'm in the design phase of what I'm hoping will be a big website (lots of traffic, lots of users reading and writing to database). I want to offer this website in the three languages I speak myself (English, French, and by the time I finish the website, I will hopefully have learned enough Spanish to offer that too) Dilemma: ...
I am working on a site with the current working copy held at: www.OnlineUticaCollege.com/david I'm not all that familiar with the code slider in jQuery tools, but I know how to program so it's rather easy to make sense of. I've searched through multiple posts on here and other sites to find a similar problem (and hopefully a solution) ...
What points should I keep in mind while designing. How we can make good design while keeping in mind color related Accessibility guideline of WCAG 2.0? ...
I have 5 years of C#, Perl and SQL programming experience but I've just found a web designer and developer job. I dont know anything about it but need to design a website using PHP, flash and HTML, whatever it is. Can you give me pointers on where to start to learn it all ASAP and start designing the website? I downloaded WAMP and learne...
I am looking for good reading references of styling data grids for web. Not necessarily the technical details (how to do it), but more guiding principles (what to do). Something like the Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, but for web and more specifically for data grids. ...
Is Selenium IDE useful for XHTML CSS coder? ...
I figured, that iam currently "trying" to style the HTML/CSS in the plain *.css textfiles... My problem is, that i need to create a complex WebApp and need to figure out the best way to start with this designstuff... Problem: I am a hacker, no designer ^^ so, my current plan would be: Buy a nice css-book ( as i am really lacking of kn...
I'm quite curious about your experience learning html, css, php, js web standards etc. Did you consider learning them in college or institutes or you think it's absolutely unnecessary (learning from StackOverFlow is way better?)? I'm asking this because I'm taking some Web design courses at my university and the teacher still uses frame...
What do I mean by alert/notification? Example is an instant-messaging application, on the event when a user/friend comes online, you receive an alert that they are online - this alert is what I'm talking about. How is this done on the desktop? On desktop applications pop-up alerts/notifications appear bottom-right corner on Windows an...
Can we make website scalable , stretchable like elastic rubber including text ,images, video, JavaScript and that site should be accessible from all devices which access to web? I want to set max-width 980 px for site but minimum width can be everything and height should depend on content. ...
Hi stackoverflow, I'm having a rather heated debate into IE's XHTML Compatibility. The only thing is, I'm unsure if the guy is trolling. Essentially he claims that IE has absolutely no XHTML compatibility, and that a document with a defined XHTML doctype means absolutely nothing when served as content type text/html, regardless of the...
I have got a CSS division called home which has got certain attributes with an action for hover for the anchor tags inside the home division like this: #home a:hover { background-image:url(images/template_03_1.png); position:relative; top:3.5em; left:0.5em; } Now, what I want to do is access the 'home' id's attributes inside t...
Hi, I'm trying to improve the style of a website. I'm looking for some examples of beautifully styled HTML elements (tables, lists, headings, etc.) that I can draw on for inspiration, or just copy and paste verbatim (if that's permitted). Some explanation of how the styling was achieved would be nice, but is not absolutely necessary, a...
I have a page that has 2 areas: header and content. The header should be [of course] fixed at the top, and has no fixed height, and the content below it. The point is that I need my content area to be scrolled if it overflows... Like: the header should be always there, but the content can be scrolled down, i.e. your browser window, with...
We are designing a data capture process with many questions (using ASP.NET), which can repeat (e.g. enter all your vehicles). In rare cases this could be over 100 repeating groups. Therefore I've stated that rather than having one huge form that we split the application into multiple forms, using logical points for page splits (e.g. ...
I am designing an article website and want some samples to look at to choose nice Fonts and CSS. Can you suggest some. Here are some example of what I am seeking: Article Heading Font/Color Article Body Font/ Color Background Color ideas Text Color Layout It will be a two column layout I thought since most of you are professionals,...
Are there any visual cues that you know of that indicate an item's "draggability"? The obvious ones: "<marque>Click here to drag!</marque>" that icon thing and (which I plan to implement) the closed-hand-cursor-onmouseover <-- not this exact one Thanks for you help! Edit: Thank you all for your help. I definitely am in favor of...