Website design involves the structure of the website including the information architecture, layout, content, and the conceptual design with branding.
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How do you convert computer users to mobile users?
How do you convince your computer users to try out your mobile app? The problems I see are:
Detection - There's no way to read people's minds and figure out what phone they use based off of what ...
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How to improve discoverability of transient scrollbar?
Starting from Mac OS X Lion, scrollbars have been transient. That is, they disappear when your mouse stops moving. Some sites, like Facebook, even emulate this transient scrollbar for Windows users:
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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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Choosing a button colour scheme
I'm currently implementing some design changes to a web application. Currently, the application uses default browser buttons for everything, but I've now been supplied with a number of custom button ...
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Efficient insert/update in web applications
What are some efficient ways to insert/change some amount of data in a web application for users that are used to do it in Excel sheets?
(the most efficient could be kind of subjective, and I would ...
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Profile for users and Page for companies?
My question is mostly about the name of it.A company to view their personal account options visiting domain.com/page
On the other hand, users can see their personal account options with ...
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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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automatically calculate contrast
A user can change the default design of his site by selecting a color. This color is applied to the menu background color. The problem is that I have to change the menu text color depending on the ...
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A good solution how to localize and let user choose language on HTML page
I read another question where a poster states that flags should not be used for languages since flags represent countries. In my mind I agree but in my eye this solution is the best:
Do you agree ...
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My boss has a different idea of a website's UX
Let me explain the situation.
I started transforming an "old (.Net 2.0)" Application into a webapplication.
Problem here is, that no-one here is really acquainted with the UX of a website (simple, ...
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Global drop-down: Necessary?
I've architected and am now designing a site that has level 2 vertical navigation. It's featured on the upper left corner of all sub-pages EXCEPT for the sub-section "landing" or "main" page because ...
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How to manage actions that could be nested 3 or 4 levels deep?
I have a site that has a main menu that is tabbed, and a sub-menu that always displays actions for the current selected tab.
For more areas on the site, this works perfectly, but one of the tabs is ...
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What features should you add to a homepage to help sign-up conversion?
There are a few give-ins...simple social sign-up, tours, testimonials... but what have you found in your experience that really puts the icing on the cake when getting users to sign-up with the site. ...
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How to tell visitors to activate JavaScript?
How should one tell website visitors that a website makes heavy use of JavaScript?
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Link to older posts should point to the left or right? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which direction indicates newer/older?
At the end of a list of blog posts there is often a link to previous posts. Somtimes this link is extended with an arrow pointing ...
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When should “Log on” or “Log off” be used? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using “Sign in” vs using “Log in”
I'm porting an old application that has a "Log on" screen. When would I use "Log on" vs the alternatives (Sign ...
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Multiplication sign, using '*' or 'x'
In Mathematics, the operator provide on keyboard is quite clear for addition, subtraction and divide as the follow + - /
The multiplication * might be familiar as the multiplication for programmer ...
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What should be the maximum length of a page on Mobile Website?
What should be the maximum length of a page on Mobile Website? I'm making a website in which some pages are long because of lengthy articles. Should I divide long pages into multiple pages?
Should I ...
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What's a good way to find a user and display personal information?
On the site I'm working on, users will at some point have to assign a user as the manager for a particular resource. Let's make up a resource and a manager, just to illustrate what's going on here:
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Your download will start in X seconds
Is there any reason why many websites - including very mainstream ones such as microsoft.com and sourceforge.net - show a page with "Your download will start in 10 seconds; if you don't want to wait ...
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Is there any free tool to explain the interactions between website pages and elements on a big single screen? [closed]
Is there any tool to explain the interactions between website pages and elements on a big single screen?
I have all screenshot images for all pages of websites, Some are lightbox on same page. some ...
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Examples of spartan/basic web sites [closed]
I am looking for examples of web sites that have a very spartan and minimal interface - mostly text and very few graphics or even styling - yet the user experience is good enough that users are not ...
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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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Best way of handling a special requirement in shopping cart
I'm mocking up a shopping cart for a hair salon. It's going to end up on their Facebook fan page so I'm restricted to Facebook's tab size of 520px.
Because of this I've decided to use an accordion ...
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Automatic redirect to mobilesite - Best practice
What if the user really wants to access the website rather than the mobilesite?
The solution I'm thinking of is this:
Having a special root page on the domain http://example.com. Here I detect when ...
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What examples are there for grouping multiple site tools under one button or dropdown?
We're considering moving links to all our site tools under one button. Clicking the button would open a modal exposing links to these tools. The button would be in the header and be available on all ...
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Advertisement headers for a website
What are some good ways to incorporate a 728x90 ad into the header of a site keeping the navigation in mind?
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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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User Scrolling Issue
I have a site where I
am thinking about putting an ajax "click for more results" similar to twitter, etc. But each of my results is displayed with A, B, C next to the result. I'm wondering what I ...
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Best way to handle mobile website terms and conditions?
A form I am optimising for mobile has specific references to terms and conditions in numerous times (not just at the end usual checkbox, for example "We need this detail to sometimes contact you, read ...
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Why at some web are pages always from 1,2,3 … for newest messages?
When I visit some pages, they have newest items first; page 1 has always the newest items. Some examples are imdb boards and icanhascheezburger.
I think this is case of top posting, because messages ...
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A portfolio of … text? (Information Visualization Challenge)
I'm trying to build a portfolio template for a writer's portfolio, and I'm having trouble finding an effective way to present so much text. Most portfolio sites have the benefit of (hopefully) ...
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Should a file location field be provided up-front as part of a file upload feature?
Where there is the option to upload a single file to a website, what is the most intuitive method of doing this?
There seem to be two obvious options:
Give the user the location field and ...
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Tab controlled website
Has anyone designed a website where they have used the tab key on the keyboard as a primary method to navigate within the navigation of the website? I am doing a website where the client wants to rely ...
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Button label when applied to checkbox - “Delete”, “Delete Checked”, or “Delete Checked Items”?
Suppose one has a list of 5 to 40 items on a web page, and suppose further that one wants to enable the user to delete one or several of the items by checking a checkbox and then clicking a delete ...
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Intuitive text to “go to” or “navigate to” an item
I have an application that has many "lists" of data. For example, lists of appointments, billable accounts, patients etc. At the top of each section page, there are action links: "Create patient", ...
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Are floating headers and footers good?
I'm making a website. I need to put in social media tools - facebook 'like' button and so on. It's been suggested to me that I use a floating, fixed position header or footer for this purpose.
For ...
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What is the purpose of a website's homepage?
The title says it all really.
While I realize the answer to this question is somewhat dependent on the visitors you're targeting, I'm wondering if there are any specific guidelines to follow.
It's ...
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What is the most usable way to implement a “save” feature on a single-page web application?
I have a web application which users fill out profile information, and then upload a series of files.
It basically looks like this:
Name: ____
Website: ___
Hobbies: ___
[save button]
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Icon for “title” and “subtitle” [closed]
I am creating a template for TV programme details. For each programme, I have a title and a subtitle. Instead of writing "Title" and "Subtitle" in full, I was thinking of using an icon.
What icon ...
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Responsive web design Vs Separate website for Mobile
Responsive Web design is buzzword these days. which means to create a same website and optimized for all devices.
There are also some website which convert the desktop websites into Mobile website
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What makes people vote?
What drives people to upvote or downvote content? I'm looking for the je-ne-sais-quoi quality on successful voting systems and I just can't put my finger on. Let's look at three examples:
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Would you consider this a button? [closed]
I am working on a web interface and I want to emphasize a portion of it and make it attractive for people to click on it, which will show additional content (with a 3d css flip animation).
The first ...
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Guiding user on two separate choices that begin with the same first step
I am working on building a site which has two steps as the basis for the main functionality of the site:
Asking a question
Creating a new page
Before they can ask a question or create a new page ...
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What is a good clean way of notifying the user their action was registered?
I am developing an internal website for managing company resources. The user sees very few full page refreshes. Therefore, when they click "Save" to save their changes, they don't get a refreshed page ...
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Are there some sites that look and feel like an iOS interface?
I have one specific and rather strange question. Have you heard or saw a website that was designed to look like an application for iOS (iPhone, iPad)? Do you think that's a good idea?
Note: this ...
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How to deal with different screen sizes when your theme is all about design
We know that not all people have the same screen resolution in their computer monitor. Some people prefer widescreen display in 15'', when other uses 17'' and more for their computer experience.
I am ...
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Is having more then 1 label for a form element really against web accessibility guidelines?
I'm working on making my pages compliant to us section 508, and wcag 2.0 aaa. I've got a bunch of fields that have ghosting on them, like date text boxes.
they use the labelOver plugin that can ...
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How to convert a visitor/ browser to a user?
I run a social learning network that enables anyone to create a class/ workshop on almost any non-academic topic and allows users to register online. Anybody can be a teacher or learner. Its free.
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Balancing Information: Number of elements
I'm currently working on a redesign of our company support page. The focus is to move towards a search orientated experience, but there's been some debate about which elements to keep there and which ...
