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Alternatives to scrolling to display long text? [duplicate]
As you can see on the picture below, my text is displayed within a 'relatively small' DIV. Currently users have the possibility to scroll down within the DIV to read the full text but I don't really ...
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Two-level menus: Why? and When?
Two level menus: should they be used? Why are they important?
I never found any resource explaining this.
Should I avoid them and only use them when you really have too much stuff to present?
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ecommerce: optimal width
I am going to redesign an ecommerce shop. Currently the shop has the standard 940px width.
I was wondering if 940px/960px is still the recommended width? Nowadays we have responsive grids and bigger ...
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Greyed-Out vs Invisible
What is a good criterion or rule-of-thumb for determining when a control should be greyed-out and when should it be completely invisible?
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iPad splitview layout as a website layout?
Im in the process of making a website where people can sell or buy pets/animal books/pets accessories. I was thinking about doing a very diffrent layout. And that is an iPad splitview application. ...
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How to achieve this layout in a responsive design?
I am currently, working on the below layout and I am finding it difficult to maintain alignment and layout.
Below is the layout I want, in blue border.
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388 views
What are some advantages of left-aligning columns within the browser window?
Youtube and Google Plus have changed their layouts such that in a very wide browser window, the content columns are left-aliged, leaving a large white space on the right side. This is a change from ...
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large amount of data on a single page
I'm a member of a team developing a business application. Basically - it is all about data entry. There are people (thousands of them) sitting whole day and filling the form below over and over in ...
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Caption below or above image for navigation purposes?
It was already discussed here that for layout purposes, where images and video appear on a web page, ordinary captions are probably best placed below the graphic — largely due to convention.
I want ...
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Attractive website layout without a tile of thumbnails
I'm trying to figure out possible layout options for a website project. Its function closely resembles EnglishCentral. This website helps people practice spoken English through a series of videos with ...
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How to display large data over a full screen image slider?
On my website www.goo.gl/uompd I have a full screen image slider which works just fine (the images are from screenshots of other websites I have done). On the slider I want to put 4 text boxes, a ...
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Putting a one-page view of my website on other websites I do
When I do websites, most times I add a page dedicated only to my main website to serve as publicity and awareness..this is normally done after seeking the consent of the website owner.
The issues I'm ...
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Banner Blindness on Non-Profit Web Site With Zero Ads
I am currently considering a page structure that would include a video.
The context of the page is it is a kind of landing page meant to provide access to informational and educational materials ...
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Why choose dark navbars?
Been reading about Google's new dark navbar over at ReadWrite. It's funny that ReadWrite, as well as StackExchange, has chosen a dark navbar as well.
Why this trend to choose dark navbars?
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How does the orientation of a pricing table affect conversion rates?
Do people buy more when products are presented horizontally across the page or when they are presented vertically on the left?
My company is in the first stages of redesigning one of our e-commerce ...
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How do I represent null values in a line chart?
I am building a web-based analytics platform. I am looking to plot a line chart that represents the number of seconds it took for me to reach a live service agent via phone on a given day.
In the ...
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Multiple forms on a single screen
I have about 5 sets of forms to be filled up by the user, one by one. Most of the fields in these set of forms are mandatory so it is obvious that the user has to check out all these 5 forms. Now I ...
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Optimal “fixed-width” website design?
RE: Design of 'fixed-width' websites, optimized for universal readability across all screen-size resolutions (i.e., best viewed, with no horizontal scrolling, over broadest range of both ...
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3 column layout for a video player page?
![enter image description here][1]I'm designing a new layout for a popular video site.
We are doing a "large" layout for min-width 1366px.
The video player can't get any bigger, so on the video ...
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“Here will be your logo” - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?
"Here will be your logo" - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?
We are a company offering free demo of client's website, before going for a deal.
Although, the ...
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Are there any recommendations for the layout of Metro forms UI with hierarchical data on a website?
Most of the guidelines I find regarding Metro design deal with read-only or media content with few text input controls. Are there any design guidelines/examples/screenshots showing good layout of ...
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Can I use a single layout for both an iPad App and a Web App?
I am creating an iPad App for my business. Can I use the same skeleton for a web app (with a width of less than 1024)? I see many web apps which look like iPad Apps, so that a single layout can be ...
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A Create/Edit Dialog with a Save/Cancel button makes sense but a Delete Dialog not
I am struggling with the design of my web application.
I am showing a dialog for my Create/Edit item views:
Thats fine so far for the Edit/Create view.
But how should the dialog look when the ...
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Which of the following options best draws attention to the “buy tickets” action without detracting from the surrounding visual hierarchy?
I'm working on touching up (as much as I'm allowed) some of the design elements for a website. One client requirement is to draw more attention to the "buy tickets" link as this action is one that ...
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How should I present landscape-orientation page thumbnails in a series of portrait-orientation thumbnails?
I am working on a small web site which has traditionally presented small (300 x 388)px thumbnails of their event posters, which are linked to the full, tagged PDF.
The majority of their posters are ...
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Showtimes for movies
I'm working on local cinemas guide (for arab users), and I want to design showtimes schedule in cinemas on movie page.. easy & simple for users and easy for developer and data entry.
Can I use ...
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What is the recommended alignment layout for a horizontal menu bar on a web page?
I have a horizontal menu on the top of a web page (pretty common) and I was having a debate with a friend about the preferred and most logical layout of the menu items (centered or left)
He was ...
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Are there any guidelines for vertical layout and spacing?
The proliferation of grid systems have made it easy to determine the horizontal layout of a site - column widths and margins are just made to fit into the correct grid spacing.
But what about ...
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2answers
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Quick search on the left, or on the right of a home page?
Is there any benefit to having a 'quick search'* on the left of a home page, or, on the right or does it not really matter?
Given that people generally scan / read from left to right, it may be ...
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What are some reasons that not all websites have fluid layouts?
Recently, I was using Facebook and I resized it to 50% of my screen to look at something else.
What I saw was that most of the page was cut off.
What are some reasons for Facebook or any other major ...
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Is Amazon's layout good or bad from a UX and conversion optimization POV? [closed]
I'm in the process of designing a theme for my company's online store that will (obviously) hopefully boost our conversion rate as much as possible.
It seems only logical when planning the theme to ...
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How to layout an article with illustrations?
I need to right an article/tutorial that has illustrations. The illustrations are not necessary, but are nice to have. They will help visually inclined people or people who just hate reading. How ...
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Visitor's reactions on web development agency's page?
I need to step-up of the freelance side and step into a more business side of web agencies and I need your opinions about how people react on your philosophy and decide to go or leave you.
The way I ...
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Should I redesign my desktop application so it looks and acts like a website?
I'm in the process of redesigning one of my older desktop applications. The original design I did was based on a 640 X 480 screen. Times have changed and there several different screen resolutions ...
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Where should I put a sub-menu on the screen?
This might seem like an odd question, but where should I put a sub-menu on the screen, assuming the main menu is horizontal - similar to the Questions/Tags/Users/Badges menu on this site.
The ...
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Website Alignment - is it just looking good or anything else
Now most of the major websites are centre aligned. Example Google, Yahoo, Rediff, CNN, BBC etc. Some old websites are still left aligned. What is the role of the website alignment? Is it just about ...
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Can ugly be good UX?
It's heresy I know, but look at DrudgeReport.com. It's raw, hand written HTML, it's plain, boring typography, it's something any UX or Graphic designer would scoff at if you handed it across their ...
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Should Website “Container” elements reach the bottom of the screen?
I've got a fixed width layout site much like SE and Twitter and it personally bugs me when my "short" pages don't reach the bottom of the page. I've been wondering if this is a purely stylistic issue ...
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Date picker button placement: inside or outside the right bounds?
Which of these is a better approach for placement of the date picker button:
Having the button outside the right bounds of the other textboxes:
Or having the picker inside:
I'm also thinking of ...
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Advice on layout/presentation of information to user in web page
I'm developing a website that helps connect nightlife promotion companies with consumers. Each night life company hosts events and various venues and on various nights. I want to give users/consumers ...
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What is a good web page resolution to design for? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Common screen resolution in 2011?
What would be a good web page resolution to design for?
I currently work according to 1024px wide resolution screens. and create UIs ...
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Furnishing the sidebar the honest way
I'm developing yet another website (non-blog, static), and yet again I'm stumbling upon the same problem with inner (non-home) pages design. The layout is conventional:
960px wrapper
header with ...
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Is the left or right side of the screen “more clickable”?
I'm in the second year of fine-tuning a homebrew CMS, and I've been going with this theory (which I imagined) that it's best to have interactive elements like submit buttons, back buttons, and links ...
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Does moving the secondary navigation impact a users experience?
I'm in the process of designing the navigation for a web application.
I have a few different types of views. One is a map, the others are all fairly similar and are like a standard web page.
Mapping ...
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What would be the best layout width when traffic monitor sizes are mostly 1280 x 1024?
I am arguing with my client, that 960 pixels layout width will be okay for the site. He keeps suggestion that the layout width should be larger. He gave me these Statistics
In % descending order:
...
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What are the rules of thumb for margins in web design?
My web designer tells me that in a web page, the empty margins or padding should always be multiples of a standard. For example 6 px, 12px, 18px. This should produce nicely balanced lay-outs. I would ...
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Using mobile design elements for standard web pages?
I'm a big fan of minimalist design and really like the efficiency and layout of sites and apps designed for mobile devices (Tripit.com comes to mind). I often find myself trying to incorporate similar ...
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How do you conquer the challenge of designing for large screen real-estate?
This question is a bit more subjective, but I'm hoping to get some new perspective. I'm so used to designing for a certain screen size (typically 1024x768) that I find that size to not be a problem. ...
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Is there a usability reason for centering a website's content area on a page?
A lot of websites these days have content area's which are centr aligned, http://ux.stackexchange.com is an example. However some sites are left aligned e.g. http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa, ...
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Search box in header or body?
I am designing recruitment sire where focus is not to search job but to write resume .As I know focus is on resume writing service , I have option to place job search box in header or down after ...
