I have a website which works fine in all browsers except in IE6. The pages content is inside a div loaded with a background image. The page layout gets very nasty and image does not load when the page is opened for first time, but when the same page is opened for the second time and any subsequent times, then it loads perfectly. This sce...
I'm working on a pretty basic web app (not much more than CRUD stuff). However, the requirements call for a bunch of data to be displayed with each item in the search results - IDs, dates, email addresses, long descriptions... too much to fit neatly into a simple grid, and too dissimilar to make them flow together (like the natural lang...
I am developing a Windows Phone app where users can update a list. Each update, delete, add etc need to be stored in a database that sits behind a web service. As well as ensuring all the operations made on the phone end up in the cloud, I need to make sure the app is really responsive and the user doesn’t feel any lag time whatsoever....
A design is a very important part of a web site. But making a layout cross browser compatible is very tough task. What is the easiest way for this? ...
Hi I have a web page that has a requirement to allow users to paste large amounts of text data from an Excel spreadsheet directly into the input controls of the page. Typically the user would be pasting anywhere between 150 to 300 spreadsheet cells that are all in one column. What are some good ways i could use to capture this data o...
I have been looking around recently to try and find a good place to learn how to start making my website more smartphone friendly when it is visited by an iPhone, android, or blackberry. This is something like what Digg.com does when it is visited by a smartphone. I have found a few tutorials for PHP but none for ASPX, and all I have is ...
When constructing an initial mock up of screens for a web application, what tools would be best to use? For starters, I'd like to avoid MS Paint and MS Visio! Ideally I'd like ones that: Are free Make it quick and easy to design/redesign web application UIs at a basic and initial level. ...
I know this sounds silly, but I'm having huge problems (ok, not that huge, but still...) problems when I get an idea for a web project, small or big. The instant turn off is when I remember that I have to code the html/css by hand again and again. I like programming a lot more that designing web sites, and I simply don't enjoy designing ...
I'm used to use padding + background-image to place an icon next to a link. There are many example of this approach. Here is one from here: <a class="external" href="http://www.othersite.com/">link</a> a.external { padding-right: 15px; background: transparent url(images/external-link-icon.gif) no-repeat top ...
I'm looking for a jQuery solution for this. When I click, let's say on a artist name. Theirs another div beside that has the information showing up. (possibly in a animation/fading way) Can anyone help? ...
Is it necessary to look, website same in all browser? Is it a legal requirement in some country? isn't it need of pixel perfection ( to inch to inch match with Design) a madness? isn't it asking IE6 Pixel perfection, as of now, is a madness? Is it sin to to use JavaScript for visual enhancement, like to enable border radius in IE using ...
What are some tools that the professionals use? I want to make some professional looking designs for myself, but don't know where to start. I have 4 years of programing experience and about 5 years of web design experience, but I'm just not good with designing a layout. ...
How do I select a column with the latest "datetime" data type, in Visual Web Developer 2008, ASP.NET 3.5 ? In the config data source dialog my WHERE options are greater than cookie, control, etc... but I would like to select where the datetime is the latest in the table. (Select row from table where datetime is last updated....) Tha...
Hi, I'm just curious about design and development of official FIFA website. What is the programming language being used to build the site? What is the development methodology they are using? I used Firebug to look around the site.Here's sth I found: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, private Conten...
Hi what version of notepad++ should i use? unicode or ansi? i only do web design coding (php/css/html) ...
The CSS2 box model tells us that adjoining margins collapse. I find it quite annoying, being the source of many design bugs. I hope that by understanding the purpose of collapsing margins, I will understand when to use them and how to avoid them when they are not needed. What is the purpose of this feature? ...
I have xml data(file or text) sent to client from web server. The xml has tags only (no attributes). Actually I am using it to represent a tree. On client side I need to render it as a tree and let client select multiple nodes in tree and submit it back to web server. Are there any useful resources out there I can use ? ...
Hi, I have been designing small and simple sites for years now, I have somehwat experience of PHP but I have good grasp over HTML and CSS and on Wordpress. Now, I want to try my hand on Ruby on Rails as well, just to get a hang of it and to be able to edit pre-written code. Please help me where to start and what to learn first, includ...
Hi, I have observed that many sites have left some spaces on both sides of the page. What is the reason behind it? Is it a part of web design standards? ...
Hi, I am a developer and have built a fair number of websites over the years. I am looking for any info regarding site Psychology, but hopefully more scientific information relating to designing websites using Psychology and how the human brain and emotions work and how items such as site colors, eye movements etc can effect your users...