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What is a good design for moving entities from the current role/place to another?
I need to create from an html page the following functionality:
I will simplify the domain problem. Assume that I have a person e.g. a teacher that goes to a specific building to work i.e a school.
So ...
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Searchresults on same page or on 'searchresults.php'
What is the best way for searching on a webpage.
Should i show the searchresults on a new page or on the same page? (maybe with autocomplete).
I personally like searchresults on the same page as my ...
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Best aesthetically solution to overflowing data in a table
I have the following table which I created as follows:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html {
background-color: #fff;
}
body{
text-align:center;
}
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1answer
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Would like some clarification on screen resolutions [duplicate]
While working on a website, I asked a friend what his monitor size was. He said his monitor was 32" but added that the size of the screen does not matter in web design, It's the resolution and that ...
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Are extensive validations necessary on mundane input forms in a website?
I'm having a rather bitter affair with my client who also happens to be my boss at office. He is a completely non-technical dumb muggle in terms of application development. The frustrating thing is ...
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1answer
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How should I effectively display result of a SQL query?
so I am making a website and I have a mysql database that stores all the information of users.
This is the structure of my database
CREATE TABLE `profile` (
`userID` INT(25) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT ...
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5answers
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Best way to show User Profile?
I'm working on a web application where I have to save a user's info. This form has about 20 fields. This is the format I am currently using:
Problem:
What's the best way to show these fields in a ...
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3answers
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How should I design a table with nested categories for users?
I am really confused with user interface design of the website.
I want to design the Detailed view of the student.
So on the page there will be information about the students like name , class roll ...
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0answers
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What are the determining factors to decide whether or not centrally align a website UI? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a usability reason for centering a website’s content area on a page?
For a website with fixed width (ex. Stack Exchange, Twitter UI) which shows content in a ...
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1answer
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How to add a details link on a table when each cell is already a link?
I have a table on which each cell is already a link to a different section (eg. the row contains 'Name', 'Location' and 'Type' columns and clicking the name cell takes you to the Show action of that ...
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Is a language switcher necessary on a web site's every page?
I'm working on a multilingual WordPress driven web site running the WPML plugin. WPML offers a language switcher widget which is pretty neat.
However, the layout of the page I'm working on is very ...
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How to avoid pagination when an items list is very large (Webapp)?
We have a web application for correcting automatically-detected mistakes in translation documents. Those are split into sentences and their amount can be up to hundred thousands (its not even closely ...
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2answers
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Measurement to use when designing for desktop and mobile
I am currently working on a web based administration interface which has a lot of controls, such as sliders, check boxes, input fields, etcetera. The interface should work on desktops, tablets and ...
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What would be the best way to fill “space” in an User Interface for irregular image sizes gallery?
What would be the best way to fill "space" in user interface for irregular image sizes gallery?
Conditions:
The row are subjected to hold maximum 3 images only.
Float left
If the total width of the ...
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1answer
561 views
Website Design Event Calendar [closed]
I have a registration website for an upcoming event. I have a link (itinerary) on the page that takes them to another page showing them the itinerary for the event. The problem is, I don't have ...
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1answer
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What are the available options for choosing an area by latitude and longitude?
I need a web page "widget" that will allow a user to choose an area by latitude and longitude the two methods I've considered are using four text inputs,
or creating a map that would allow you to ...
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5answers
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Should Document files on web pages open in a new tab/window?
When designing web sites should document files such as PDF, DOC, XLS, should the documents open in a new window/tab or in the current tab?
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How should a website's title be structured?
Are there any best practices for choosing the title of web pages? There are a lot of resources online oriented toward SEO, but not toward users.
My impression is that most sites have something ...
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1answer
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metro style UI is too early or not [closed]
I think metro style UI is just beautiful and user friendly. It is suitable for both Tablet and PC.
Should I make my new website design in metro style or conventional standard?
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vote
1answer
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Search result template and readability
This is my current layout:
The sentence on top means "Results in the WHOLE SITE for: abc"
"Whole site" becomes the name of the section if you're searching in a single section.
Then you see each ...
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votes
1answer
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Designing a page for selecting an icon in HTML
I have a form on a page where the user can edit a lot of information for a specific model. One of the properties of this model is a small icon of about 20x20 px. There are about 100 of these small ...
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4answers
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How do I make a table row on a web page look clickable?
I have a simple web-based report presented as a table:
Some rows are clickable, others are not (it can be seen with the third column. Greater than 0 means the row can be clicked and expanded in a ...
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2answers
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“View Newsletter Online” link to be visible in online version?
When you receive an HTML or Text Newsletter, you'll often see a "Having trouble viewing Newsletter? View Online" link at the very top of the email. When you click on it your web browser fires up and ...
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Question on fluid web design
There are 2 ways in which we can implement a fluid design (one that would adjust itself to the screen size on which it is viewed on);
Approach 1: We can just use the available browser size (or ...
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5answers
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How do users expect dropdown navigation to work?
This question is in regards to expected behavior with drop-down navigation in web pages.
This is part of an email I just got from a client: ("Admissions" is one of the top level navigation links)
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4answers
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Does the average user understand the standard HTML multiple select box?
If I want the user to select one or more items the HTML symantecally correct form element would be <select multiple>.
So the code would be:
<select multiple id="sel">
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3answers
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HTML templates for web applications [closed]
There are a lot of sites with free templates for homepages. These are often too simple for web applications, which have sometimes a lot of deeper nested content.
For example. An application view ...
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8answers
773 views
Should Printer-Friendly button open a new browser window ?
Reading Common web app usability gotchas? I felt guilty when I read that using a target = "_blank" is a bad thing.
I have developed a small web application that format Stack Exchange questions in a ...
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2answers
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Proper usage of fieldset / legend tags
I'm wondering what the suggested usage of <fieldset>s are on a webpage.
For example, on a simple page with just one form (one set of inputs) is it still recommended to use a fieldset? Or should ...
