web-design

using PHP for "Fluid" design(using viewport resolution)

I need some opinions on using PHP to make completely "scalable" websites.. For instance, using viewport resolution and resizing images, applying dynamic css styles..... In my mind doing this just add's to the complexity and should not be done, it should be fixed or fluid using strictly css and no server-side languages to generate layouts...

Is there such a thing as a converter from php to html?

Don't think that I'm mad, I understand how php works! That being said. I develop personal website and I usually take advantage of php to avoid repetion during the development phase nothing truly dynamic, only includes for the menus, a couple of foreach and the likes. When the development phase ends I need to give the website in html fi...

Making a Web Gui to design a Garden Layout

I would like to design a web page Gui where users can design a simple interactive garden. The user would pick a template design and receive price estimates based on the design template and the dimensions entered. I'd like the user to be able to move items such as plants, stones and be able to adjust the dimensions of the grass, paving....

Should a developer be a designer?

I have been developing websites for quite some time and I am not so good in designing websites? My Boss is refering me to take some lessons on it. But I really want to stick to development rather than designing? ...

Android 2.1 address bar causes change in viewport dimensions

Hi, I have a page that has a 100% width and height div in it (all surrounding elements are sized accordingly so that it does actually achieve 100% width and height). Below that div I have a second div with a fixed height. In mobile safari and blackberry everything is fine, when the page loads the dimensions are applied correctly (the t...

Best practice to hide/encrypt email adress in webpage

I couldn't find a similar question, that's why here it is: Whats the best way to hide or encrypt an email link in a website, so that a crawler can't read it, but the user can nevertheless click it? I don't want to conufse the users by typing the email like this: john (at) mail.com or similar ways. (and i think this kind of links can ne...

Has anyone ever worked with a UX designer who also did the graphic design, is it a good combination?

I am working on a framework for web based apps, including both UX guidelines and the art/graphic design guidelines such as what menus will look like, headers, colors, fonts etc. The UX designers I met, were unable to provide the artistic side, and the graphic designers didn't have the UX skills. Should I continue to look for one person...

font from psd file for web page

I recently took on a project to build a webpage. I am an experienced developer but never worked with coding a psd file into a webpage. Now, the psd file uses a specific font, which I do not have probably, as I can see it in grey and [ ] at the bottom of the fonts list. Sorry for the naive question, but what am I supposed to do from the...

How to decide which colors to use that look most similar across most screens/monitors?

Hi, I'm baffled. I'm trying to find suitable colors for a logo that would look similar across most monitors/screens. I know it's near impossible, but how does one end up with the color palette that new Google logo and Facebook "blue" uses for example? I've a monitor that has been calibrated, and a few laptop screens that have default s...

IE I-Frame 1px border to the right

Please look at http://www.mymix947.com In the header i have a 1px border to the right of the banner. You will see a black line dividing the banner and listen live button. This is an i-frame and I can't seem to eliminate the line. This seems to only happen with Windows 7 - IE Browser 8.0.7 When my browser is full screen - i dont see ...

web: How can I place an input box in a picture?

I want to use a picture as my website design. It's a plain one, like google's. <img src... done... > now, I want to place an input box at the text area of the picture, how to I do that? ...

How to do OOP Based Web Design in PHP?

How to do OOP Based Web Design in PHP? May be you could link to me a post containing a tutorial or reference to Design Web in OOP Fashion? ...

What is the minimum screen resolution for which you guys currently optimize your web designs?

I don't really know if I'm asking in the right place, so if my question has to be transferred I apologize for it. I am totally noob in this place. Thank you. ...

Using custom buttons with js & php

How can I make a form with my own "submit" button & post the info to a php server side? how can I get js to post it? ...

Are free and open source templates, themes, self content management systems replacing the need of web designers?

Are free and open source templates, themes, self content management systems replacing the need of web designers? You can find templates online for pretty much anything these days. There are html and css templates, templates for Wordpress, all sorts of different cms templates, e-ecommerce templates, etc. Many of these are pretty cheap a...

Choosing font size for a web form

I am building some Web forms with ms-access. For the most part the fidelity of the form inside of ms-access and the same form when published to the web and run from a web browser looks very good. However I the problem is with some list boxes. Here is a screen shot of the client form. And, then the same form when published to Access ...

A simple, clean web layout

Ok, so I hate CSS/HTML graphic design... What do you guys recommend as a sample template or website that you think has great CSS and html layout? From my past experience it's best to get a page that has a white background and little dependency on graphics -- that's clean, and easy to modify ;-). ...

UX Design Question: Should a multi step wizard save the form contents when the user clicks 'go back'/previous?

I am developing a web application that collects data over multiple steps through a wizard. Steps are generally not interdependent, in that data input at each step has little or no effect on the consequent steps. However each step may have a set of validations which determine whether the user can progress to the next step by clicking 'con...

How to change source order of <div> in less steps/automatically?

How can I do this task automatically. I need to change source order of the divs, which has same id in above 100 pages. I created an example: This is default condition <div class="identification"> <div class="number">Number 1</div> </div> <div class="identification"> <div class="number">Number 2</div> </div> <div class="identificat...

Using Agile development when building websites

Is it possible / plausible to apply Agile development to the website building process including planning, design and development? ...