Website design involves the structure of the website including the information architecture, layout, content, and the conceptual design with branding.
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Use subdomains or directory structure for URLs?
I'm curious if it's considered better practice to use a subdomain (e.g. store.website.com) or a directory (e.g. www.website.com/store) when linking to separate sections of a site.
Assuming both ...
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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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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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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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Many possible responses to content
I have an Event page, to which a viewer can have many possible responses (not mutually exclusive): accept, decline, nominate someone, propose a new time line, thinking about it, email host etc.
I ...
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designing a 1-2-3 step guide
Being primarily a web developer, I'm always looking for tools or guidelines that make it hard for me to mess up the user experience. I'm looking to create a 1-2-3 step guide. I'm thinking that it ...
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Visualize many appointments for a week view
I'm trying to display "the week" for appointment scheduling. The problem is that my current implementation is way too busy (but it does put everything on the table). Also, the page easily gets taller ...
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Looking for a perfect control panel user interface
So I'm kinda stuck and I hope someone here can help me. I'm building this Control Panel for a data center, and I'm not very good with that. I want to make it as simplistic as possible, but expandable ...
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Looking for help on help page!
I have a lot of very similar data entry forms on several different tabs. I'm trying to get decent looking and effective help screens for the data. Also any ideas on the forms themselves. TIA You can ...
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Suggesting options without limiting input?
When designing a page for adding a new software project to a website, one of the information I want to ask is the project's license.
Since most projects will probably fall under a small set of ...
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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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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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What the best way to make the users rank a page?
I have music portal where I need to make the users to rank pages.
Type of pages:
Playlist
Artist
I need the user to:
View rank.
Vote up or down.
The ranking must be a up / down vote system.
I ...
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Use of Mouse-Over Paragraph Marker in Headlines for Permalink
I haven't really noticed this before, but it seems there's some fad where a headline on a web page would include a mouse over paragraph marker (ΒΆ) that links to a named anchor for the headline. If ...
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Best way to highlight DOM elements given the following situation and requirements?
Situation
Very simple. A user is moving a mouse over a web page. Every element the mouse moves over receives a highlight as the mouse touches it, and the highlight is not there when the mouse is not ...
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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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Where and why to place tabs in a web-site?
In my case there is pretty much a "tab-ception". There are a few sections that have their own child sections. Surfing from section to section (or child section to child section) is like using tabs. ...
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How should I divide my site between B2B and B2C?
I've spent about 3 years trying to answer this question myself, so I thought I'd give you guys a go.
Here's the situation:
My company provides training services.
You can either (i) book a course ...
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How best to represent the addition to / presence of pairs?
I'm currently designing a dashboard that allows a user to manage ANDSF policies. The Policy model allows for a number of start time/end time pairs to be added to it.
Currently, policies are created ...
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Best way to reorder a list on a web page
I started using the Careers site in the StackExchange group of sites and came to entering my list of publications. I had my initial set of 15 or so that have already been published. The list widget on ...
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'Sponsored Links' impact on conversion rate
It seems it's cool to share useful links and bump a bit ranks of the sites that were useful for you.
Probably putting 'Sponsored links' or 'Useful links' section to your website makes you a pal but ...
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Full Grid Vs Columnar Grid Layout in Web Designing
I have a requirement to design the full grid layout which automatically scales with resolution/screens by width and height. I usually worked around with columnar layout which also can scales but only ...
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Where do you position the title of a video?
When designing a video webpage, should the video's title be the heading of the entire page or should it be the caption of the video? How do you choose between the two? Below are two flagship examples ...
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Formation of groups in a webpage
I have to make a webpage to associate users (around 30) together into groups. I have thought about a vertical list of users with radio-buttons (number of users) in the line. Example:
groups 1 2 ...
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Finding the right number of buttons/CTAs to maximise enquiries
I'm designing what is effectively a brochure-ware website for which the primary function is maximise the number of enquiries for the service.
The are quite a few in-depth pages of information about ...
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Data Grid double click for detailed record view or single click to populate constantly visible single record form?
It was hard to phrase the question clearly.
I'm looking at two options:
1) Full page data grid. On double click on a record, a window pops up showing the record in a form view.
2) Top half: form ...
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Web control to select main and secondary actions
I like to think on design and usability terms but, first of all, I'm a developer and I need your help thinking on how to design a reusable web control.
I've a data grid like the one below.
User ...
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how to provide a good user experience for drilldown/click on a grid to external divs
My interface has a table (a nice, sortable table with 3 or 4 columns), which represents the summary of some data. Each row represents an important piece of data.
At the moment if users click on a row ...
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Selecting all contents of an input field of text type when focusing
I am working on a registration form for a web application which requires you to enter your first name, last name, date of birth, address and so forth. If the user fills out all of the fields we are ...
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What are the best client feedback tools around? [closed]
What are the best client feedback tools around, for getting the clients feedback on designs, wireframes, workflows and even the final product?
I have found a few that do just the design, but none ...
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2 links to different paths within 1 image box
Similar to say images on the CNN or USA today home page. I have a slider display of images that will look like a bunch of small snapshots of reports. The reports will have the report name underneath ...
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Data visualization for small web projects
What's an example of good data visualization for a small web projects?
I don't want to overwhelm the client. I must track progress, and keep stakeholders engaged.
What I've got so far
PERCENT OF ...
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Are two separate websites useful when discussing mobile and desktop [duplicate]
I am doing an ecommerce web design that will be using a lot of images of realistic items than cant be created in CSS. One big goal I would like to do is have this site accessible through mobile ...
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What is the most important UX considerations that could be answered by statistics gathering (list)? [closed]
I am trying to figure out what types of things are best tested in my website(s), phone apps, or programs. These need to be things that can actually be measured. Which information is most useful to ...
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What should be considered when launching a Wikipedia-esque site to make it as useful as possible?
What should one consider to increase usability in general when launching a wikipedia-esque site?
Is there any specific kind of Wikipedia portal that is more user-friendly than others?
How should ...
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Are there any studies that validate the golden ratio principles in designing websites?
Something like this that suggests the golden ratio is indeed appeasing to the eye from a user experience perspective?
Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs
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Navigating a section in which content displayed varies depending on selected year
I have a page that lists a bunch of events depending on what year is given to the site (current, or via URL):
The page happens to be at the front of a sub-section, so I have the site's main ...
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corporate websites, stock photos, and intangible products
When I see a corporate website making use of stock photos, especially stock photos of supposed customers grinning their faces off or employees deep in thought, the site's credibility goes down a notch ...
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Which one output format is the best for the user?
I am creating a feed reader ( I posted in another question some info about it, nothing related to this one) that gets about 10 different sources.
In the my front page, I show the image, title, date, ...
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Better way to show the calendars
I'm working on a single report page for a web app. I need to show how to filter the displayed data it be per day (diary) or between two dates (weekly).
When the user select diary (Diario), it shows a ...
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What is the new user interface that services like Google/Google+ are using? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the top navigation called when it is common to a network or suite of websites?
Recently Google/Google+ and other services have adjusted their menus to the top of ...
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Which of the following layouts is better in terms of design and usability (Online date renting site)?
This is proposal number one:
This is proposal number two:
Which one is better in term of design, usability, accessibility, and visual appeal?
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A/B testing VS UX usability enhancement by UX guy?
What us the point behind A/B testing if everything will be decided by the users inputs of websites then Is there any role for UX guy in this case?
Should we give preferences the results of A/B ...
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Are web designers calling themselves UX designers now a days? [closed]
Are web designer calling themselves as a UX designer now? I have seen that many designer who makes interface for websites or web applications all now calling himself as a UX designer.
Is the UX ...
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Should a website directed towards programmers and code enthusiasts require IE8 (and earlier) support?
Very simple question:
Should a website directed towards programmers and code enthusiasts require IE8 (and earlier) support?
To elaborate (on why to ask such a question),
I assume most experienced web ...
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Do people know what royalty-free means?
I'm working on a site that sells royalty-free Silverlight controls and illustrations. The experience is somewhat similar to what you'd see at iStockPhoto.com. From what I've observed, the term ...
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Does the Zendesk.com website offer a good ux? And why?
For a new project we want to use Zendesk.com as a good example for our designers. We love the site but can not really tell why since ux is not our field of expertise.
What makes the zendesk.com ...
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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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DropDownLists becoming TextBoxes - Should the user be able to go back?
So I have a menu on web application I am developing. In this menu, there is an option for how many Project vacancies one wishes to create. The user can choose as many as they need (large numbers will ...
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Creating beautiful User Interface Designs [closed]
I usually have a hard time designing a good UI for my applications/websites (especially the websites).
Are there any tricks to this? Are there good books that can help/guide me? Or libraries eg. ...
