Website design involves the structure of the website including the information architecture, layout, content, and the conceptual design with branding.
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Consistency on container, or item type?
I have a question which relates to the attached image. I have a sidebar with a thumbnail image which relates to three types of items - images (mainly) - pdf's and videos.
When someone lands on a ...
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Removing Admin rights from an Admin user
I am building a system where the users have roles that can change over time. One user can have one or more roles. The roles define access to pages and features. Some of the users will have an Admin ...
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Which colours should be chosen to match a metro theme and be easily readable? [closed]
I am colourblind, which makes choosing the colours of my website very hard (Often I choose colours that appeal to me, yet look awful to everyone else). I have recently begun a new website (Image ...
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Web designer without knowledge of designing tools [closed]
I am working for a company dealing with websites and static webdesign. They put me as a "web designer". After that they provide me PSD/setof image and a wire frame. Using html/css/jquery i was created ...
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How to show the user the possibility to sort a column with space problems
I am working with a big table with 20 columns and a lot of information.
I know that the most common way to indicate that a column is sortable is by adding a little arrow at the right or left of the ...
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What is the reason of delayed file download on some software sites? [duplicate]
On many sites being software repositories often when I click "download" I am redirected to another page, when there is a countdown (eg. 5 seconds) to download. But I can click "direct link" (in case ...
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Vertical Rhythm - How important is it
I'm working on vertical rhythm right now for my website. It's hard / impossible with images of unknown size.
There's a javascript plugin that helps with keeping vertical rhythm by resizing the ...
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Do I need a 'sign post' page?
My company has a product marketing site for our web app. The web app and marketing site have 2 audiences: students/parents and college financial aid admins. The students/parents apply for financial ...
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Zooming in on Ecom Product Images
One semi-standard feature of e-commerce sites is the auto-zoom of a product image once you're on the product details page. I've always felt this feature to be clumsy and annoying whenever I am ...
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What do you call websites that make heavy use of vertical scrolling?
This question is similar to Why did scrolling vertically became a pattern?
I see a lot of modern websites moving to larger, singular pages with more content and more vertical scrolling. This is often ...
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Any reason not to programmatically put the cursor in the search box by default view instead of forcing the user to click before writing the search?
Is there any reason not to programmatically put the cursor in the search box by deafult instead of forcing the user to click before writing the search? Google for instance does this but not always.
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Distinguish Web Template and Web Theme
I am building my own CMS, and it's time to work with front-end stuff. I do research and am confused why Wordpress uses a folder named theme while Joomla uses template instead. (Can anyone explain ...
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Arrow-border vs open-border for currently selected item in a vertical menu
Arrow border:
Open border:
Which gives a better user experience, and why?
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Display big numbers in a small area
I am developing an accounting app where I display several orders. Every order has a price.
I have a box where I would like to display the price as shown below:
This works pretty well for fairly ...
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Best way to handle code wrapping on a narrow viewport [duplicate]
Note that this is not a duplicate of this question.
I reviewed it before asking the question and the accepted answer is stated as unacceptable in the "Solutions that won't work" section below.
My ...
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Responsive Design for Job Boards not recommended? [closed]
After a little bit of research on my side, I failed to find job boards that have implemented a responsive layout.
I reckon that I've only looked at the most popular job boards but still, I found it ...
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Using delayed appearance of some UI elements to grab user attention suggest actions
I'm looking for some examples and opinion of delaying the appearance of some elements in mainly static UI. I'm not talking about banners, which are affected with "banner blindness", but rather ...
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Why do people still like and use tables in HTML? [closed]
I meet web developers from different levels of experience and backgrounds and some of them like tables for everything. Divs are great and tables are to be used only when it is required.
Can anyone ...
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Default action for the “Do you want to leave the page?” warning?
When you compose a question/answer on a StackExchange site and then navigate away before submitting it, you get a popup, warning you:
(translated:)
The "Leave Page" button is ...
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How do you handle panning a map embedded on a scrollable web page for touch devices?
I'm currently developing a dashboard-style web interface with an embedded Bing V7 map and it's working great.
On a tablet, usually the map will be shown half above 'the fold' and half below.
This ...
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Proper web UI elements to select interval between snapshots?
Let us assume that I have a system where temperature, humidity, rain, etc. measurements are recorded at certain dates & times for certain locations (let us call them "snapshots").
This is just ...
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Better method of displaying recipes [closed]
I'm working on a recipes-saving application and trying to figure out which method of presenting recipes is better.
Each recipe that is displayed on the page has a name, but not necessarily a photo. I ...
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Reducing flicker in a real-time graph? [migrated]
I am rendering a scatter plot every 5 seconds where the X-axis denotes time and Y-axis denotes a set of names ordered alphabetically.
download bmml source – Wireframes created with ...
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Should user be able to scroll a web page while a modal is active?
As far as best practices are concerned, should user be able to scroll the page while a modal is active?
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why office microsoft website is aligned to the left? [duplicate]
I know this question pops up regularly, but if for some case I can understand left decision followed by just design guidelines, then for Microsoft I can't get my head around..
They have all web ...
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Will removing the border & bevel on these buttons make them look un-buttonlike?
First: I'm not a designer by trade, but I do occasionally do design some things.
A week ago I began writing an open-source, extremely small (960 bytes gzipped/minified!) CSS framework. Since then ...
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Telling user about updates in interface
Our product is some kind of CRM for our partners and they want to know about all the updates we release.
Types of updates we're asked to tell about:
Technical — invisible changes (counting money ...
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BBC.co.uk & USA Today [closed]
Some website nowadays seem to be going "mobile first". If you look at the BBC Website and also the USAToday website, they are using tablet look and feel from the outset. I was wondering what other's ...
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Designing for 1280
If you had to design for 1280 without using fluid or responsive design (project constraints), what width would you set the design to be? For example, a set width of 1140 should allow enough gutter ...
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What is a good design for moving entities from the current role/place to another? [closed]
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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hero headlines and other marketing terms [closed]
http://www.apple.com/iphone/why-iphone/
The image directly under the "There's iPhone. And then there's everything else" is named hero.jpg. I've heard the term "hero headline" used in marketing speak ...
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how to manage big web based projects [closed]
How can I manage big web base application?
I'm using PHP to design a link sharing website, and need some experience about how to manage it.
Something that i need to know :
How can i develop it
what ...
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How should I link-back to a website's landing page?
My client would like to include a link back to his landing page (Lawyer Jump Page) in case a user mistakenly clicks to the wrong website link (either Divorce Law or Personal Injury Law).
He ...
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I'm building a food/lodging website [closed]
The website EatNap.com should facilitate searches for both hotels and food
Specifically for the front page,
what is the best way for the user to see it?
i have mixed optinions and suggestions, such ...
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Are mega footers good UX? [duplicate]
I've noticed that several websites — especially universities and web development sites — have recently started placing mega-menus in their footers.
Here are some examples of what I ...
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Is remembering and using user ID when logged out a bad thing?
I'm developing a website for a group of people who play a game online. (It's for a mmorpg guild). I'm creating it all myself rather than using an existing system mostly to learn website skills as I'm ...
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Show file size of (inline) linked downloads?
Should we show the file size of downloads linked on a web page?
For download sites (e.g. file hosting services), the answer is obviously yes. But what about websites that offer downloads only ...
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Are users more likely to sign up with social login? [duplicate]
These days social login (via Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc.) is becoming more and more popular. But it has problems: some users are reluctant to link their accounts on different sites to each other, ...
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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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What do you say to a complete web design newbie to not crush his spirit? [closed]
I have a newbie for web design activity. He sends me a link to his new website, and it's all blinking gifs and marquees and Comic Sans. My goal is to encourage him to learn and keep trying. What can I ...
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Usability of transparency in navigation menu
I have seen a couple of websites using some css properties to make the navigation menu semi-transparent. I assume this has to do with giving the user a more continuous feel to the page scroll, but it ...
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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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Multi-column articles
I just came across this article by Paul Lewis. The first thing I noticed was the multi-column layout.
It's great that people are trying to break the usage of overused templates for articles/blogs, ...
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Shadows. Best practicies [closed]
Is there a golden rule to create attractive shadows for websites(Specifically accessible from desktop browsers)?
The reason I'm asking is that I have a perception that some shadows look better than ...
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Mobile Menu with 150+ links
I'm building a website that has over 150 menu items. Normally, for small sites, I would use a responsive mobile menu for use on mobiles. However, as you can imagine, 150 or more menu items loaded onto ...
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Generic picker for FMCG analysis site?
As it says in the title I'm working on a site that analyses FMCG market (basically anything you can find in supermarket). I need to redesign our current "picker". There are a number of pickers across ...
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How to make file download progress more obvious
We have forms on our site that we're using for lead generation. When submitted, the user is directed to the requested piece of content and the file begins downloading right away.
We track user ...
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Where to place the '< Back' link or button?
I am building a simple transactional site with two step process both on web and mobile (responsive).
Target users both male & female age from 30-40 relatively tech savvy.
First page is a ...
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Should users be directed to a 404 page or a landing page?
We have two pages. One is a landing page, given by the route /region. The other is a detail page for a particular region, given by the route /region/summary/{id}. The landing page is the normal way by ...
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Best order for the company history page?
I'm making a company history page for 2005 to today.
Each year has a paragraph about what happened that year.
I'm conflicted as to whether I should show 2005 first (and let the user scroll down to ...
