web-design

UML or design tools for websites

What is a good tool to design the implementation of websites? I typically use UMl to design applications, but I feel that does not apply well to websites, specifically the heavy emphasis on UI that websites require. What would be a good tool to use to plan a webpage? ...

Voting UI for showing like/dislike community comments side-by-side

We want to add a comments/reviews feature to our website's plugin gallery, so users can vote up/down a particular plugin and leave an optional short comment about what they liked or didn't like about it. I'm looking for inspiration, ideally a good implementation elsewhere on the web which isn't annoying to end users, isn't impossibly c...

Drupal and Back-End Complexity

Currently I am working on a school website, and we are still in the decision-making process of choosing a framework (we know that we're not using Joomla! or hand-coding). Drupal came up as a viable choice, and currently, that is my best bet for the site. However, I have an issue with CMS's in general. I would like to develop a quite comp...

Introducing a teenager to webdesigning

Hi, My eleven year brother want to be webdesigner/webmaster and I wonder how to help him with this? What books you recommend ? What soft is good for start ? Maybe incomedia and photoshop ? ...

Looking for web design guidance

I am developing a website. Now, this site has some applications including a blog. For blog I am using wordpress. My confusion is, how to create a web design which I can apply to blog also, to keep consistent. Or, the design of the blog can be different? ...

What skills should a web designer have.

I was wondering what skills should a web designer have. ...

IE Joomla Problem with templatemonster template

Hi, i have got something strange: http://garten.ploetzeneder.eu on FF and chrome i see the complete website, on IE 8 i only see everything down to the flash, but bellow the flash i don not see anything,.. how can i debug this? ...

JQuery fadeIn() moving other CSS elements on fadeIn()

Hi, I've just been learning some jQUery to get a basic image gallery going on a website I'm creating for a hotel but it's currently not going to plan. I've got it so the arrows will cycle through images (no animation yet) but I decided that the arrows should fade in when the image is hovered over and fade out when not but this is messin...

SEO with image link alt text vs standard text-based link

Hi, I'm currently developing a website and the main navigation is made up of image links because the font used for them isn't standard. My client's only worry is will this mess up search engine optimization? Can I just add alt text to the images like "link 1" or use the name attribute of the anchor tag? Or would it be better to just ha...

alt-tab sort of web design

I am thinking of designing a web site having multiple related services. For every action of the user in a service there will be some computation going on in each of the other services. I want to display the service in action (chosen by the user) in the middle of the page in enlarged mode and rest of the services as small sized (shrunk)...

Increase/decrease image size, website

Hi, i have a webpage with table and in it images, i would like to add the option to increase/decrease image size, how could i do that? Something like ctr+plus and ctr+ minus does. This is what it is for now, http://www.ursic-ei.si/1.html Thank you all for answers. ...

Client wants "uncopyable images" on website

Hi, I need a method to make the product images on a website "uncopyable" - not be able drag and drop them onto desktop or right click and save. They also need to be links and are in a scrolling javascript viewer (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/stepcarousel.htm) Any ideas? Thanks, Steph ...

CSS::Website Design::GLASSES:: Colors for GLASSES website.

Hi I doing Glasses(optica) store website. I thinking about colors that should be in glasses website. I think about colors that connected to glasses, like in other fields that i doing websites, but the problem is that glasses can be in different colors. I will be grateful for colors suggestions for glasses store and pretty glasses website...

How to bring the parent element with floated child elements to the center of the document?

I have organized a menu. Its HTML is as follows: <ul class="topmenu"> <li><a href="sample.html">Text 1</a></li> <li><a href="sample.html">Text 2</a></li> <li><a href="sample.html">Text 3</a></li> <li><a href="sample.html">Text 4</a></li> <ul> This is a horizontal menu, so I have floated th...

Form creating sites with output

Sites lite faary.com wufoo.com/and theformsite.com help you building forms But the output tables that being created are password protected as far as i know. Are there sites/scripts like the above which can make the output visible to all ? Something like a "guest book" script/form that you can edit the fields and the output will sho...

dreamweaver CS5 code formatter

I couldn't find, is there any code formatter (code beautier) shortcut or button or extension for Dreamweaver CS5 ? ...

css @font-face not working with firefox, but working with chrome and IE

Ok I've been at this for some time and am now bewildered. The following code works in Google Chrome beta as well as IE 7. However, Firefox seems to have a problem with this. I'm suspecting it to be a problem of how my css files are included, cause i know firefox is not too friendly about cross-domain imports. But this is all just stati...

Where can I get a theme/template suitable for a webapp?

I'm building a simple web application that is mainly going to be displaying small tables of data back to the user. The problem is I can't do design to save my life. I need a simple web 2.0 style template that is CSS/HTML compliant. I know about http://themeforest.net and http://www.oswd.org/. Just wondering if there are any other sites t...

Is there a way to use custom font saved in fonts directory in our web directory?

I am trying to do something like this font-family: url('fonts/myfont.ttf'); You might think this is a stupid question, but if there is a way tell me ...

Run a site on Scheme

I can't find this on Google (so maybe it doesn't exist), but I basically'd like to install something on a web server such that I can run a site on Scheme, PHP is starting to annoy me, I want to get rid off it, what I want is: Run Scheme sources towards UTF-8 output (duh) Support for SXML, SXLT et cetera, I plan to compose the damned th...