web-design

Is using flash on a website homepage considered bad practice?

Hi, We are revising our company website and I wondered if it considered bad practise to use flash on the home page. This would cause issues for those users who dont have flash installed (and maybe dont want flash) Thanks ...

Not able to determine Font and style in a page.

I have a page but I am not able to determine it''s font style. I checked the view source but nothing is visible. Some lines are commented. Please let me know how to determine the font name: <html> <!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/inner.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" --> <head> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" --> ...

What fonts are included with which operating systems?

Is there a decent resource anywhere listing the fonts included with Mac OS X and (post-XP) Windows? ...

What is the most difficult part in converting a static website to a dynamic website?

Consider I am having a website with 5 to 10 static information pages and there is no database. How difficult will it be to convert it to a dynamic website with userlogin and interaction, typically a cms? Do you have an easiest method to do the same? ...

Web design test for interns

We are receiving some graphic design interns today and I may be given the task to test their web-designing skills. Because not all graphic designers are web designers, I would want to keep the tasks simple and easy to understand. What tasks or questions you would suggest for such a scenario? I do not want to test their HTML or CSS skill...

Could we call web behaviour programming to javascript code?

Hi, I recently develop a web application that uses a lot of javascript code and I face how to design and code it. So, I realized that javascript is focused on how some html items behave on the web page and not simple functions or methods that makes easy changes to UI. Talking about web design, javascript could be considered as a web be...

An inconsistency problem between browsers, puzzle me long time

First, the screenshots As you see, although i explicitly described the height, padding-top, etc, there's always a little differece between browsers, how can i make them the same? This problem keep puzzling me and i never find the cause, i even tried delete reset.css i use but still no luck Paste related DOM and CSS for reference DOM...

Every pages needs a HEAD with lots of stuff: Is my framework design good?

I came to a point where I realized that I need an intelligent solution for this problem. In my framework, there are: Views (actually just HTML files with little PHP to output data) View Controllers (create views, do some logic) So for every page like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/ask for example, I have an ViewController which ...

Vertical strip along sides of website

I'm making a website and Id like the sides to have an image that repeats on the Y. Sort of like this website. http://www.solutionkaizen.com/html/boutique.php Im just not sure how to make the div for it. For the CSS I think its basically setting the bg of the div to my image and repeat Y. Thanks I know how to do the css part, but how wou...

Align image to top right

My site has a logo with images on both sides. I know the width and height of the logo, but the images vary. I have placed an image in the top left corner and did a 10x10px margin. I now want to do the same for the other side but its not working. I did the bg position property and set it to top right but it didn't do anything. Thanks. CS...

Getting the jQuery object/reference.

Here I'm wrapping an HTML tag with another tag '$holder' below. $holder = $('<div />') .addClass('joverlaytext') .css({ position:'relative', }); $(this).wrap($holder); Now after this statment how to get the object/reference to this newly created HTML element, ie. jQuery obj of '$holder' ...

Setting width:auto leads to width:100%

I am little bit tired for now (out of coffee), so I am unable to figure this out. When I set p.style.width = auto (the blue one), why is its width at 100%? None of the elements have their width set to 100%, so I doubt it's inherited property. How can I set the <p>'s width to match its content width plus padding? Sample page: http://el...

color of scrollbars within the page

Hi everyone, I need help. My main page has a long table that will typically be approximately 2 screens "tall" (assuming a 1024x768 browser window). I want the user to be able to browse that table up and down, while always having a set of control buttons available in the currently visible portion of the page. AND to retain contr...

Center floating divs inside of absolute positioned div

I have this set of html and css. What I want is to have to have the small gadgets blocks float left but to centered inside of the absolute positioned gadget-wrapper. So, the gadget wrapper is absolute positioned to the bottom of a page. It holds x number of gadgets that floats left inside of the wrapper. All these gadget should be cen...

When to use a lightbox effect?

We've all seen the popular lightbox effects on the web (e.g. JQuery Lightbox and Shadowbox). Yesterday I got into a discussion with a client who is completely enamored with lightboxes and wants to use them every time a form is submitted including: Login forms - click the login button and the lightbox appears with the user name and pass...

Pop up based search and return values to parent form or any other altrenative...

I have a scenario where i want user to open a popup or other page from a web form to search contacts from database and add them to list and when done return that list back to parent form field and continue filling other fields. I have 2-3 user input which should take multiple values for each field from list of values and i wanted to imp...

Why "alt" attribute for <img> tag has been considered mandatory by the HTML validator .. ?

Is there any logical or technical reason (with the W3C validation) for making alt as required attribute .. This is my actual problem:though my page is perfect enough with respect to W3C validation rules .. Only error I am getting is line XX column YY - Error: required attribute "ALT" not specified I know the significance of "alt" att...

Grid scrolling for better user experience

We have an Intranet web page that displays reports based on some search criteria. The controls for the search criteria are at the top of the page and the report grid is the only content on the page. The grid will typically display more than 50-100 rows and will require scrolling. What page design is more appropriate from a UX perspective...

Cross browser text-shadow

I'm looking for a way to get text-shadow that looks like css3 text-shadow, but that works with IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari , etc... The solutions I found either looked messed up or did not look consistent in IE. Thanks http://www.workingwith.me.uk/articles/css/cross-browser-drop-shadows .shadow { height: 1em; filter: Shadow(Color...

Page centering messes up

I'm making a website and it is here: http://animactions.ca/Animactions/accueil.php My problem is when I go from accueil to contact, I notice the page shifts a bit. I cant figure out why though, the body is supposed to be a fixed width.Thanks *Bear in mind my resolution is 1680x1050, it doesn't do this on 1280x800 ...