Currently whenever a client wants a website I provide my own CMS however I have been wondering whether a 3rd party CMS may be easier. At the moment I have built it in ASP.Net & ASP.Net MVC (I'm thinking of moving to Ruby on Rails). A master page has 5 pagecontent areas, top, left, middle, right & footer. I then create usercontrols such...
Hi, I would like to know the best practice for a designing a simple CRUD application with some screens updating various tables (like admin pages to maintain static data for an application). the simplest way would be to drag a data grid/gridview, bind it to a dataset and use a data adapter for CRUD operations. but if this application need...
To hand code / program HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP etc. After leaving Homesite I've had a hard time deciding Thanks for any recommendations people can offer! ...
In past years I have learned the most important languages for web development (CSS, HTML, JS, PHP) and I can create good-structured sites. But an important part of web design is the images used for buttons, backgrounds, text, gradients... Also the main logo is a very important element in the layout of a website. However, I dont know...
Hi all. Where i can to buy quality web template for asp.net. Thanks. ...
Background: All of my experience in developing software and managing projects has been related to applications (not counting a few trivial hacked-together websites here and there). Process-wise, I typically start off templating Rapid Development and the Software Project Survival Guide and then tweaking the plan to suit the needs, resourc...
Hi, Tell me simple design flaw which you have faced(irrespective of programming language) while you code and how did you over come with that? ...
We are planning to design a website for evaluating kids (games, quiz). Are there any specific user interface guidelines for targeting the kids (e.g. keyboard usage in a laptop or a standalone keyboard, ability to control a mouse, ability to navigate the user interface and its controls, size of buttons, page navigation)? We are looking fo...
I've been using Safari on Windows and the iBBDemo Blackbaud iPhone Browser Simulator to emulate an iPhone but I have noticed that Safari does not render form elements using the default control styles. Safari on iPhone supplies default control styles that are specific to iPhone. This means my web forms look nothing like they do on an actu...
Hello everybody, I was wondering what everybody thought of this project I've been working on and whether there is anything that I should change before launching it. Bare in mind this is my first go at designing a full site. Feel free to feedback on any aspect you feel is not up to scratch, ie design, code, whatever you like. I'll be...
My CSS designer has made a design where there are two ul siblings laid out left to right. The layout is done by specifying the width of the ul tags. He is using Firefox on Windows where everything looks fine. I am using Firefox on OS X where the contents of one of the li tags has too much text so it flows to another line. The design ...
I'm developing a set of websites that are geared towards the IT Professional at businesses ranging from 10 to 5,000 employees (small/med business). Most IT Professional expects a certain set of features when dealing with blogs, forums (such as gravitar)... but what I'm most interested in are the ~other~ addins that would be used in a si...
I have the following structure, the #tabs div is a static positioned div. I would like to show the loading inner div during an ajax request and have it centered on the #tabs div (which is actually a jquery tab). But it's not getting centered with the css I have at the moment. <div class="span-18 last" id="top_tab_container"> <div id=...
How do most modern "pro" web designers go about starting/designing/coding a site? I realize that techniques will range and differ drastically, I'm just looking for some solid, relied-on tactics or approaches. For example, "I know most draw out a rough design with the client, then go into photoshop and create it, then slice it up, then ...
What are some of the rules of thumb and things to avoid when for creating a website's design? For instance, an obvious one is to not have sound play automatically on a website. My point in asking this is that we have a newer web developer/designer and I am wanting to give him a general list of "do-nots" when creating a website. ...
The image posted below is taken from a word document. I need create a similar one in HTML. Which tags should i use to help structure same way you see it below. Discard the fonts/colors tags. ...
I have HTML page that appears in browser as: I want to make the page to appear centered and compact as: I made the borders visible in the first picture to reveal the structure. Here is the HTML source code: <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <div id="body"> <div id="masthead"> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspa...
I'm working on a site that's supposed to scale fluently down to low resolutions, so that it would work just as well on a phone. This works well in Firefox and Chrome when I just make the window small, but when I try it out on an actual Android phone (Nexus One running Android 2.2), it renders it super-huge! (Using JS's window.innerWidt...
Hi, I've used the following in the CSS file of the website. It works on safari but not on Firefox. I'm a newbie so apologies for this if it seems like a simple question. Been trying now for 3 hours. @font-face { font-family: handwriting; src: url(http://example.com/handwriting.ttf); } Thank you in advance. ...
Hi, i want to start the design of a website. I know i will need to: think of a general layout design banner/footer choose colors and font make sure everything is well positionned test the site with other browsers ... the problem is i don't know what is the good order to proceed in a efficient way. Should i design things from the gene...