Web design is a broad term used to encompass the way that content is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, using a web browser or other web-enabled software to display the content. The intent of web design is to create a website—a collection of online content including documents and ...
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What is the standard width for a website in pixels?
What is the standard width for a website in pixels or where are statistics?
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What's the point of placing self links on a webpage?
I often see links on webpages that link to the page itself.
For example on forums, blogs and even here the topic title is a link and points to the page itself.
What's the point of doing this?
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How should I prepare the design of a web page for a web developer?
What techniques, software or practices do you use to prepare a description of a web page for further development? I am doing some research (with little luck) in how to create description for web ...
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buttons (text or images)
I would like to know if I should create CSS buttons or image buttons for my site. What is better? Problem is that the text is formatted with Helvetica Neue ( I like that font very much) and I can't ...
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How does amazon get away without verifying emails?
I was playing around with Amazon's Check out process today and I noticed something odd. Amazon does not make you activate your account or verify your email address. I only had to enter my email twice ...
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Indicating web design authorship in a design as a freelancer in a professional way [closed]
I thought this was probably already posted, but didn't know how to phrase it in order to search it. I was hoping the automatic duplicate search would turn up something, but nothing came up on the ...
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Website using different fonts across different browsers
The navigation board items on my website at www.amsa.mn uses the wrong font when displayed with Firefox. The correct font is loaded when I access the website with Safari or Chrome.
Is there any way to ...
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Redesigning a live site
First question here so apologies if it's not the right place to ask...
I run a very popular website, frequently attracting tens, if not hundreds of thousands of users daily. It's a game, and uptime ...
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How Can I create Webfont?
How can I create webfont? any software or online service which can create webfont from my custom TrueType font.
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Predefined code styles or css library
Is there a (free of charge) predefined CSS library for C# code formatting available? I want to display my C# <code> blocks in a web page similar to the way it is displayed in visual studio or ...
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What is the correct order of previous - next buttons in paginated results?
We are developing an XML DITA content system that allows users to view their search results in a paginated form and navigate through these results backwards and forwards, page by page and we have ...
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How to choose a font for a website?
How to choose a font for a website that is readable,usable,authority ?
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Making some simple pages look good?
I've gotten myself to a point where I can make my webpages work from the server side ... but, from the client side, they all look terrible.
I don't really have the hang of colors and themes and such ...
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Pay for Graphic Designer vs Programmer
In a corporate web-design setup, who typically makes more per hour, the graphic designer or the programmer?
By graphic designer, I mean somebody who builds mockups probably in photoshop, selects ...
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Creative ways to display long lists [closed]
I am working on redesigning a page that displays a 2 column table of approximately 200 manufacturer names. The page becomes very long but so far isn't incredibly unmanageable, but I'm trying to apply ...
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Difficult Client wants me to deliver project before payment [closed]
I am currently working on a project for a construction company. The payment due for the final milestone is coming up and completes the entire transaction. The contract states that the entire project ...
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2answers
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Where can I get my website critiqued [closed]
As a fairly new web designer to the industry, I am looking to improve my designs and usability of my websites. Where can I submit my website to get peer-reviewed or professionally critiqued, ...
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How to design a slogan
Which tools and techniques do you use for designing slogans on website? I tried this one but I wasn't satisfied with it. There is little choice of usable designs and it is aliased in firefox (in ...
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How does URL Rewriting affect SEO?
The following paragraph is from SEO Google Guide
Google is good at crawling all types of URL structures, even if
they're quite complex, but spending the time to make your URLs as
simple as ...
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How to build a site that I can make regular updates with a user-friendly GUI
I need to build a site for my church with the following functionalities:
The main page listing all the updates from other pages if some content is added
Different content types on different pages ...
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How to tune up colors in web page
Could you advise me some techniques and tools that you use to tune up colors in a web site?
The website has background and there are some images with logos. If I change the background I need to change ...
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Documented Web Site Design Process
Is there any well documented process to be used in web site design projects?
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Is it a bad idea for our company to temporarily use a premade website theme?
I work at a software development company as a full time web developer..
In the last year our company has seen massive growth and as a result we've kicked off the rebranding process by getting a ...
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1answer
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Layout Columns - Equal Height
I remember first starting out using tables for layouts and learned that I should not be doing that. I am working on a new site and can not seem to do equal height columns without using tables. Here is ...
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why does loading my homepage leads to my index page?
please when ever i load my new site quancer[dot ]com. It leads to my index page. I just installed the script using softaculous autoinstaller. Please kindly help me with this.
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Is there a way to create a website without learning to web-program?
I can create an XML document without knowing XML. I use a word processor. Is there a way to do that for websites?
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Most CSS Grid frameworks use pixel as css units, why?
I started to develop my own webdesign using an grid framework 960 CSS Framework and also noticed that most of other famous css grid frameworks use 940/960px as maximum page width? Some of them have an ...
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what design tips would you give any designer to make the website popular and memorable amongst its users?
When designing a website that is targetting large number of consummers, what design tips would you give any designer to make the website popular and memorable amongst its users?
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What wireframing tools can produce something that looks like a finished website?
I've long done this using photoshop, but lacking photoshop skills this takes me ages and is little more than a poor sketch. I'd like a program that has all the common interface elements, theme styling ...
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Any sites where I can offer a budget and choose from many webdesigns offered by designers?
Can anyone can provide me some links to a website where I can enter my requirements and the budget that I can offer to receive a lots of graphic designs. Then I can choose the one I want and pay for ...
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Free, basic checkbox images for a todo list [closed]
Does anyone have a set of simple, free checkbox images (checked and unchecked)? I've got to throw a todo list on my site and I'm not exactly a designer. Ones that look like they are hand written ...
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Is liquid layout good or creating multiple css file for universal accessibility of web pages?
Is liquid layout (everything in % and font-size in 'em') good or creating multiple css file for different resolutions or browsers with help of Javascript good?
I am a aspiring web designer, and want ...
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SEO preparation for upcoming new site
I booked a domain and I created an image saying that the site is soon to be launched.
What SEO preparations should I make to avoid harming my SEO ranking? Because my page is blank, the image itself ...
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How can I install a module in Plone 4.0.5?
I have an existing website that is old and html. I'd like to import it into Plone, and make it "Future Proof" thanks to Plone.
I found on the Plone website which modules could help me with it: ...
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Delivering a web application to the client? [closed]
A company I am working with built a web application that can be useful for many businesses.
My question is what is the best way to deliver such an application?
Option 1: 'Install' it on their ...
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What's the best way to change a restaurant website to accommodate a second location?
So I built a restaurant website about 2 years ago - its a standard site with menus, events, contact pages etc.
Now the restaurant is expanding and opening another branch in another location, the ...
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Mobile Web Site Templates
Is there any web site that you can recommend in which I can find premium (beautiful looking and professional) web site designs(themes) specific for mobile web sites? (paid or free)
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HTML Template Designs - Alternatives to Theme Forest
I'm looking to build a new corporate website using a ready made HTML theme so that I can focus on the business logic rather than on the presentation.
Any recommendations for websites similar and ...
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how can i create this kind of design [closed]
so i was in a website and it had some boxes with content in them and an image on top of the boxes with some text in them... like a title for whats the box for...
the problem is i dont know how to do ...
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Standard way to mention website's developer
I want to know what is the best standard way to mention a website developer's name. I mean is there specific meta tags? In case that customer does not want the designer ads its name in the footer or ...
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Banner image for website Web-design related [closed]
How can i create this images? Specially i want to add the background effect? Any idea how its made?
Thanks for looking into it.
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What are current ADA standards / requirements on images?
I am wondering what ADA (American disabilities act not dental association) currently requires when it comes to images and other things not easily read by webpage "readers". I am currently trying to ...
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Where could I find web designers/ web developers that would like to work together? [closed]
Note: If this isn't the right place, please let me know where I should ask this.
I am working on projects to earn money (in codecanyon and themeforest) and I wanted to know for a while where I could ...
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Marketplace site development: what skillset am I looking to hire? [closed]
I'd like to have a site built by a freelancer, but I don't know how to find the right person because I don't know which expertise/skill set would be best to look for given the functionality I'd like ...
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Creating a site with similar functionality to RateMyProfessors
I'm trying to create a website that accepts submissions into a form, and then later on I can display it in tables organized by categories, similar to how RateMyProfessors does it:
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What is the generic type of this background image?
What is this type of texture referred to in web design? Blotted, blotched? And what are the best ways or tools to generate similar textures and backgrounds?
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How can I create a review site which is similar to craigslist?
I want to create a site where you can review different things in the town. Example could be a Restaurant, a park, a doctor, a school. The user creates review and uploads pic if he has. I want to ...
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Templates for forms, tabs etc? - Patterntap alternatives
I used to find http://www.patterntap.com quite useful to get inspiration to design forms, tabs, and other web elements etc.
Unfortunately after the ZURB acquisition of Patterntap now they enforce you ...
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Load times and SEO for 1 page sites
I find that 1 page sites can be interactive animating from page to page. But if a site starts to get a little larger or contains many images, perhaps an image gallery, it loads slowly. Also its not ...
