I'm a complete newbie when it comes to web designing. I would like to know about the role of a web designer on a project. If we are to take StackOverflow as an example, what role would a person like Jeremy play? Is it restricted to giving suggestions about the look and feel of the site by providing a mockup or is it more deep? Also, at ...
I am very new to grails.I am doing one sample project for image uploading and displaying.Right now my project uploads the images and stores into the images directory.Now i want to display all the images stored in the "image" directory. I dont know how to write the gsp code for display all images. For displaying the images I wrote the fo...
I'm using visual studio 2005 and have been building asp.net applications. Mostly just departmental level apps for reporting and data maintenance. They work and they look ok but they don't look great. I don't have any other tools like Dreamweaver or Expression. Can anyone name any books or resources for making better looking web page...
Screenshot of the problem: http://i36.tinypic.com/dfxdmd.jpg The yellow block is the logo and the blue box is the nav links (I have blanked them out). I would like to align the links at the bottom so they are stuck to the top of the body content (white box). How would I do this? Here is the relevant CSS and HTML. #header { height:...
I'm looking for a tutorial or some reusable resources that I can use to give my application a more modern look and feel. For want of a better description, I'm aiming for a simple and uncluttered web2.0 / ajaxy look. edit: emphasis on simple and uncluttered - something stripped down and functional Ideally I am looking for something quick...
This would be my issue I have a drop down that's not displaying fully. I'm not sure even where to start so here's the HTML surronding the drop down and I'll provide the CSS also. HTML <div id="add_item"> <ul class="vert"> <li> <ul class="horz"> <li class="name"> <select style="width: 195px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" ...
In the past I have created websites with navigation that is aided by php $_GET variables. There was a layout that was implemented, and then content that was included based on the variable passed into the URL. I am now creating a website without any server-side help. I am wondering what are good ways to navigate pages without the redunda...
I am having a problem with lightbox2 on IE7. I've modified lightbox, moved the navigation around a bit - everything works fine on Firefox but in IE7 there is a problem: the first time I click on a thumbnail only a part of the background dims and the large image doesn't show. If i try again it works, the problem only occurs after a full p...
Maybe the question is a little confusing. I will like to implement tags (similar to what is used in stackoverflow) in my web application. I will like to take a peak in any documentation, framework or schema made to be able to implement a tag strategy. I can think of many ways of programmatically implement this, but since there are...
It seems that the trend in web design is to provide paged output, where long tables are displayed a page at a time. My customers don't like that, and have requested that the web sites I design for them show all entries in long tables. The arguments for paging seem to be mostly based on the performance hit of displaying long tables, and...
When designing a website, what do you consider the best image format to use for a particular task? I always find myself in a dilemma when trying to figure out what format to use for a specific task...like for example, should I use .jpg all round? or, when and why should I use a .png? For example, taking Amazon's website, they use .jpg...
I own a website which contain a lot of freeware stuff to download on it. The problem I'm facing is that people from around the world are taking the direct links of the files (for example .zip files) and posting them on their websites and general forums. I am getting a huge amount of bandwidth and that's ok, but the number of pages visi...
I want to design a website but I don't know from where to start. Is there a beginners' guide to start with? ...
Can anyone suggest examples of good software to use for Web Design ? ...
I've built it now how do I create a half decent design? I need some techniques, resources, examples, books etc. for an information intensive web application. P.S. - I just bought Web Design for Developers from Pragmatic Programmers and its not very good! ...
I got to thinking about font (typeface) selection today. A site I did for work came with this professsionally done style guide that detailed colour selection, font selection, spacing, etc. It's the first time I'd seen anything like that but I have to admit, what they'd chosen did look good. Now I've previously read about colour theory...
I do most if not all my sites to have the page title block (generally a styled h1 on my pages) to link back to the home page. Should this be linked on the first page, i.e. the home page? I read that this shouldn't be linked, but one thing I do when I go to a page for the first time is mouseover the title to check the status bar to see ...
I have created an iframe code that I want people to use as a widget on their website. This iframe will load a webpage which has a button and a counter. In the accessed page I've got a graphic. But the iframe is rendered in the browser with a white empty area around it. Why is this happening? Here's my code: - At the client side: <scri...
I am looking for a way to allow a Web application to provide a different user experience based on the type of visitor. For example, the same set of data should be presented differently to a child versus an adult. This is for a Java Web app. Just wanted to provide more clarification. What I am hoping for is any best practice for handli...
Our Dev team had been developing enterprise web page more than 2 years ago. We are curious to know what is the best way to write a contract for CSS usage. For example, if we have a COMP, how we agree on a contract so our developers and our designers agree and we don't have to go back. Is there a tool that is available for this type ...