web-design

Background image positioning problem

I have this as my CSS styling. My #pg_wrap is not centering with the background image when the browser window is resized. The screen shot I have is when you reduce the browser window less than 1344px than the #pg_wrap width (the width doesn't have to be that, was just a test number). The screen shot was taken with Firefox, which does ...

Text alignment with pictures

I have an image on my webpage in which I want to have text wrapped on the right of it so I have some CSS like: .image { float:left } But after reaching a certain point in the text, I want to make sure the text no longer appears to the right of the image, I want it below the image. What tag can I use to break the text onto a new line...

White space around image

I have some text around an image that has been floated left. But the text goes right up against the border of the image. How do I make some white space around it? At the moment I've got in the CSS: .image { float:left } and the view: <% if article.newspic.exists? %> <div class ="image"> <%= newspic_thumbnail_tag(articl...

Captioning an image

What's the neatest way to caption images on the web using the latest in HTML/CSS? Demo code please. ...

What is the most designer friendly web framework?

As a programmer with zero design skills and a loathing for cross browser layout issues, what web frameworks have the best separation of layout code from business code? Ideally the distinction between business code and layout code should be clear cut (as in separate source files, as well as logically), with the layout code easily underst...

Finding the right people for web work

I own an ecommerce business and am having a heck of a time finding the people I need to do consistent work in a timely fashion. We're looking to bring a programmer/designer on board who has knowledge of SEO coding, use of opensource platforms such as Magento and CRM systems like SugarCRM. I've tried craigslist, careerbuilder, guru.com ...

Good examples of web based business apps?

I want to get more inspiration and ideas for creating web based business applications. These apps have treeviews, tabs, grid, forms, panels..etc. I develop apps but want to improve my design skills. So I would like to look at very good looking online business apps which have good use of text and background colors, good use of a general t...

CSS & Overriding Styles on Nested Elements

This came up from another question that was asked here but I figure it's something that probably has a "Best Practice" Approach. When designing a website, the designer will most likely put together a set of generic styles for all elements within a website. (Standard Fonts for Text in Divs/Spans/H1/H2s) In the case of tables, they may b...

What tools are there to slice a PSD?

I regularly slice web designs provided in PSD format. As a site-builder, I don't need to create graphics—I only rearrange the layers, hide ones and show others, pick colors, widths, heights, and so on. What tools are there to do that job? I know Adobe Photoshop, but it's a very expensive tool for a site-builder who doesn't want to draw ...

CSS for a mail inbox

I'm completely new to CSS. But I'm writing a mail inbox where it's just like your typical e-mail inbox which contains 3 columns for From, Subject, Received. Can I get some basic CSS for formatting this data correctly (alignment, columning, etc.) from which I can build upon. Any cool interesting designs are also welcome. ...

What are the good forums to discuss webdesign issues?

I am looking for forums where I can ask questions about CSS etc related to webdesign. ...

Designing a website for a serious beginner

My fiance's aunt came to me asking for help on designing a website. I am pretty good at it but I'm not sure how involved I want to get in helping her. I'm busy as it is and I don't think I have the time to be of any value to her. She is a nurse and in her 50's. She is working on her masters and this was a class she had to take. She is w...

Dark Blue styling

This is not a programming question, so I apologize if it doesn't really fit in this website. I want to create a 3 column website where the dominating background color is dark blue, and the secondary side column is more noticeable than the tertiary column, and where the primary content area is white. I'm thinking about this and I can't ...

Are Regular Expressions useful for a Web Designer (XHTML/CSS)?

Are Regular Expressions useful for a Web Designer (XHTML/CSS)? Can a web designer get any help if they learn regular expressions? ...

using an icon under "GPL" or "LGPL" licence for commercial web design work?

Hi friends. :) Can we use an icon under "GPL" or "LGPL" licence for commercial work? I don't want to sell icon. I just want to use icon for my web design work. but I do this web design work for my client, so I take money for the web design Thanks a lot... ...

Suggest me a CSS-reset & base framework

Hi there, I will not asking CSS framework such as Blueprint or 960, lately i began to think that YUI CSS reset & base was too much bloated, so i need a simpler, efficient (in size) and effective CSS reset (and it's base) that support multiple browser or at least IE6-8 (Trident), Opera(Presto), Firefox(Gecko), Webkit Remember i don't as...

CSS/Jscript caching issue

Hi, I'm pretty new to web design and have recently been working on an amatuer photography website. I updated it on Sunday night, cleared cache etc on my home computer and it was all looking fine. The problem is when I checked it from work, behind corporate firewall etc, some of the pages have changed, some have not. For example the h...

Displaying/Formatting Tabular Data (web)

In my example I have a table where each row is a user for example. Columns could include their name, address, email address, etc. I now need to add a column for (hypothetical example) their cat's names. While most people will have no cats and some people will have 1- 2 cats there will be the occasional person with 20 cats that create one...

How to switch from Web Designer to Front End Developer/ Web Developer?

I want to Switch from Web Designer to Front End Developer or web developer PHP, which skill should I get , Is it Easy to switch from Designer to Developer. I have two years Exp. in Web Designing. Please suggest. Or should i stick to the Designing what is the Next BIG thing for Designer after DIV layout. My Current Roles Conversion PSD...

How does one handle "send links to examples of work" in job posting?

Lately, a lot of development/design job offerings I'm come across ask for "links to examples of your work". In the past ten years, I've worked primarily for three web companies. One of the websites is no longer in existing (a victim of the dot-com bubble burst). Also, I have had little to no impact on the design of the "public" pages for...