web-design

What is the difference in work and responsibility between all Web Development Job's designations/Title?

What is the difference in work, software/coding/programing/designing skills, and responsibility between all these Job designations/Title? I found all these terms in jobs posted on linkedin.com and on various job sites under category IT - Software. when i search for jobs in Web development. Graphic Designer Digital Designer Web Design...

Drupal: Change Color Scheme Based On Node

A web designer has created a design for our Drupal web site which requires a different color scheme for various sections of the site. Drupal does not support this design requirement by default. Currently I am using JavaScript to change the color scheme based on the page title. After adding some content pages I now realize that this is a...

Order of operations - web development / web design

Hi, So I'm starting to get fairly proficient at coding my site(s). But I'd like to take some meta-steps and begin to get down best practices and workflow kind of stuff. And I was wondering, I've heard that it is always important to finish html markup before adding css. Does this extend farther? I'd think that the order would be some...

How to program a super simple software activation system?

Hi, I have a piece of shareware that I wrote that I'd like to distribute on the internet. I have a serial number type thing set up but there is still a ton of key sharing :(. I'd like to add a system where once the user enters the serial, it is checked with my server to make sure that it is valid. Simplicity is key. -Client sends MD5 o...

Website character encoding

I have a website in Turkish language. I have the text in turkish and shows well in the editor. When i publish it and view it in the browser; the term : müdürlügü shows as : m�d�rl�g� How can i avoid this? Character encoding of the site is : UTF-8 ...

How to view a site as IE would see it, without IE?

So my issue lies within the web design realm. As much as I hate IE, I want to make sure my site is showing correctly for users who are unfortunate enough to have it. The problem is, I run OS X, so the last version available to me is 5, which barely even starts on my machine. Are there any worthwhile plug ins or methods so that I can de...

Simple Liberty reserve PHP script for registration form

Hi I'm designing a script for someone that wants to have an online registration form where people can sign up for a certain event. There is also a cost to attend the event. So I need to have something where they can pay online. liberty reserve seems like the easiest way to do this. Can somebody show me how to design a script that forward...

CSS tricks to design a page

I need to design a page with border images on each side. I need the page to fit on 1280x1024 and 1024x768 resolutions. Is it possible to have a fixed size for the center div and crop the border images in the lower resolution ? 1280x1024 : border-200px center-840px border-200px 1024x768 : border-72px center-840px border-72px I've mad...

What do web designers do for your projects?

I've been working for a small company for about a year now (I'm college student and it's my first job as a developer). We work on small - medium sized web projects, team sizes are about 1 - 5 ppl, and we all work from home. I use ASP.NET MVC. I've worked on a several projects now, and I'm not impressed by what our designers delivered. M...

Are there any unobtrusive ad providers better than Google AdSense?

I want to display ads on my site without putting user-experience at risk. Ads must be unobtrusive and blend nicely with the rest of my design. The best ad implementation I've found is Facebook's skyscraper ads shown on the right side when visiting somebody's profile. Those ads are transparent, not misleading at all, and do not detract v...

Suggestions for polished Line of Business web apps at CodePlex?

I am a asp.net web developer but not a very good designer. Looking for some inspiration for creating polished professional looking Line of Business apps which contain a good number of grids and reports which are contained in panels. CodePlex has a ton of web apps and I have little time to check all of them. Any recommendations for apps...

how can manage i resolution in Indesign like photoshop?

Hi all Please tell that how can i manage resolution in Indesign.I need help r-gently. ...

Where to find programmers/ web designers

Could anyone please put me in the right direction of where to find programmers/ web designers that would be able to design a forum from scratch? MAny thanks ...

Send Mail with PHP & Echo Problem

In my homepage I defined a form which uses the following script to send a mail: <?php /* Geben Sie hier Ihre E-Mail Adresse zwischen den beiden " an: */ $_emails[0] = "[email protected]"; // Wenn keine $_POST Daten übermittelt wurden, dann abbrechen if(!isset($_POST) OR empty($_POST)) { header("Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8");...

using z-index and position in css to seperate design and core!

I am using the yui-grids css (irrelevant if you don't know what this is) with three columns. and I'm putting all the fancy design stuff on the left column and using z-index and relative psitioning bringing them in the center. and then putting all the important stuff like forms, inputs buttons, links and context in the center. Is this wro...

Firefox Netscape incompatability

have searched previously asked questions but still not getting quite the answers I need. I built wwww.broadstairsfoodfestival.org.uk in DreamWeaver 8. Ran both the page code and CSS through W3C to clean up any errors. Ive looked at Check Target Browser in DW but all looks clean. However Preview in Browser shows problems. On some pag...

How do I identify and eliminate unused CSS styles from my bloated stylesheet?

I have a legacy stylesheet that is now full of unused styles. The problem is identifying the necessary from the unnecessary. Are there any tools to help with this? ...

CSS - Center Footer Content

Hi guys, I need to center my footers content and I can not make it works. I am centering my page using: #wrap {width: 960px;margin: 0 auto;} I have used float:left; float:right; in my header and content. So, I try to center my footers content making use of: #footer {height:0 auto;min-width:960px;float:left;} div.inner_footer {heigh...

Any resources out there for color blind web designers?

My 9-5 job is as a software engineer so this usually isn't a problem for me, but I do know HTML and css and feel like I can come up with a decent layout if needed... The only problem is when it comes to selecting a color scheme for sites. Usually I will just find a site that has colors that I think look nice and most likely aren't weir...

Make IE behave like Firefox

i was wondering... when we design websites... there are cross-browser compatibility and browsers different behavior to HTML is an issue... designer has to check his design and work for cross-browser design consistency.... can we do somthing about it like add some libraries\scripts to the code so that one browser bahaves like other, so ...