Website design is the process of planning and creating websites that can be read/viewed by web browsers
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Estimate number of characters to truncate
In website I am implementing I found that the maximum number of characters that I can display in a certain sidebar div is 17 M (uppercase M) plus the elipses. So that is the maximum I setup the code ...
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Which is a better design pricing model?
I'm curious which pricing model other feel best fits freelance design, in what situations, and why.
I am not seeking dollar values.
There are a few basic pricing models a freelancer can use:
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How to begin with UI design
Newbie here. I like web and UI design, I know what good UI and good design is, but I lack Photoshop skills.
Sometimes, when I try to do design, my mind goes blank or gets mixed up because I see too ...
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Simple Line Fading Away At Both Ends
I am not much of a designer. Looks like a very basic thing to do but i don't know how to do it. I just want to create a line that is blurred from the ends and have this shade at the bottom of it. Its ...
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How do I create a button with two shadows in the bottom?
I am not much of a designer. I want to know how I can create Wix like buttons in Photoshop.
They offer many kinds of buttons, but I want the one with a shadow on both sides of its bottom. Any help ...
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Why are my elements moved after being exported to svg
I'm quite new to Adobe Illustrator, but used to PS.
I wanted to experiment with Illustrator to create SVGs that can than be manipulated with JavaScript.
I created some kind of background-layer and ...
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What is the exact role/relationship of photoshop in web design?
I'm confused about the relationship of Photoshop (and any other image processing software) in web designing. I can see countless tutorials anywhere teaching on how to make web layouts from scratch, ...
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Is there a visual web editor based on bootstrap?
Bootstrap is a great framework, and I want know if there is a tool that gives you the possibility of dragging html components, re-sizing and moving them, changing colours, all while generating the ...
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Why do some logos look.. old? How does design age?
This drives me crazy.
What makes design look old? How subjective is this? Who decides?
Look at this Bell logo:
It's from 1969. And boy, does it look that way. It's simple and minimal, but.. it ...
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Twitter bootstrap prepended and appended input text
we are working on a css framework for our app, having made the prototype with twitter bootstrap, we started by designing the elements of bootstrap we had used.
One of them was prepended and appended ...
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How can I make this footer “more corporate”?
I created a footer for a dental lab. I was trying to keep it warm and inviting, but now being told it "looks too casual" or "looks too simple". I heard the blues and grays are "too subtle"
So before ...
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Size in mm of website mock up using InDesign
I want to create my website mock up using InDesign. Based on a finished website resolution of 1024 x 768 what size should I create my pages in InDesign (in mm).
Thanks
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Best image dimensions for downloadable wallpaper, for PC, HD, mobile and tablet?
Let's say I wanna make a website that would allow a user to download a wallpaper in sizes for PC, HD, mobile and tablet.
What are the top used / best image dimensions I should host?
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What is the effect of ligatures in web, regarding SEO
All designers love ligatures but vanilla web typography just sucks. I heard of smartypants that solves many of thoses issues, bringing sexy quotes, gorgeous ampersands and all. It's just perfect, ...
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How can I create imagery for cyber security and cyberspace general while avoiding that late 90's early 2000's look?
If you were to do a google image search for cyber security you'd see exactly what I mean. Even the slickest images representing cyber security or cyberspace seem to fall under a style that IMO is very ...
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Any good example of electric waves incorporated in a web design?
The client I work with has undergone an internal branding exercise. The result is that all of their documentation standards have been updated to include a common header. The header contains a black ...
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Where to start when styling widgets for an app?
I'd like to improve the visual appearance of these widgets. What tools are available to help me?
I am in need of advice on how to make widgets I create look and feel professional. I am no artist ...
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How can I make these links more obvious to click on?
Currently working on a redesign for a dental laboratory.
While testing the home page with a user, they never clicked on the links in the subnavigation. They clicked on the larger buttons in the links ...
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Rotated tiling background
How do I rotate the this image by 30 degrees but still have it be tileable?
http://i.imgur.com/OXQ8cD4.png
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What is a quick and concise way to explain online font licensing to a customer?
Customers are usually proud of their (offline) identities. As webdesigner, I regularly find myself having to explain that I can't legally use their licensed font in their webdesign. When I do, it ...
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Instructions to give a print designer looking to use non-system fonts for websites
So we often run into print designers who choose all these crazy fonts that don't look good for the web.
As a backend web programmer, what do I tell print designers to help them select non-system ...
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How do I use a vector graphic to cut an image in Fireworks?
I am designing a website with Adobe Fireworks and I want to have a design where I have divs with rounded corners. Inside those divs I want to have an image that gets cut (rounded) by the containing ...
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Components of a site that might cause imitation concerns
I'm new to the web design and web comic fields.
I'm a huge fan of The Oatmeal, and thought his tile layout was a good way to share the most amount of comics for given real estate.
So, following the ...
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How to make a “highlighter” effect for text background in CSS?
How would I go about highlighting an inline part of a paragraph decorated with a "highlighted" effect as if it were marked by a real highlighter on paper.
<p> The dog <em>jumped ...
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Rules for adding colors to a black and white palette in web
I am working on a fashion website for my own portfolio, that allows users to have their own account where they save fashion related items. A sort of Pinterest for fashion items.
Now, I know that the ...
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What is the best way to design for a group where multiple people have equal input?
I am building a website for a student organization. Although I'm a novice at graphic design, I can do basic sites (bootstrap is a lifesaver) and am moreso of a pro when it comes to development.
The ...
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Can anyone offer some advice on the relationship between design and business goals?
I am designing a one page site, and I need to go back to basics and learn about how to translate business aims into a homepage design.
Can anyone offer some advice on the relationship between design ...
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How to quickly create multi-page layout presentation? (image maps?)
How to quickly create an interactive presentation of the layout where user can click buttons to navigate through the site.
Obvious solution from HTML side would be to use image maps, but these are ...
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Where can I find textures that are GPL compatible? [closed]
I am for a long and painful endless google search for days now. I can find masses of so called "Free Textures" and masses of textures that are CC licensed. I found a shop that sells textures "royalty ...
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Identify this website theme [closed]
http://www.proxybase.org
Can someone help me identify what this website theme is? I have seen it a couple of times on other websites as well.
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How to design a modern/slightly futuristic-looking application
I was hoping to get some advice from some more experienced UI developers. I have been presented with a unique challenge by my customer, and I feel like I am failing.
Specifically, they want a UI that ...
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What are the best certification courses graphic designers? [closed]
What are the best certification courses for graphic designers such as illustrators or web designers or UI designers ?
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RSS and SEO friendly HTML for magazine-like quote layouts [closed]
My question is only about magazine-like quotes, such as the one you can find on on theverge.com for instance.
It may be done with blockquote or q but since it often repeats parts of the content and ...
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Solid colours look ugly in web design? [closed]
I'm very new to the whole graphics and web design thing, and upon trying to put together the first few pages for a site im working on, have realized that nothing looks as good as i imagined it would.
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Is there a collection of basic open source web templates I can use and customize for my projects?
What are some flexible, open-source, free/public-domain templates I can use that are easy to customize with my text, a logo and a color scheme? Plain-old HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript (no Coffescript, ...
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Coding a website design , which is better from PSD (Adobe photoshop) or EPS ( Adobe illustrator )? [duplicate]
What is the diffrence between EPS and PSD in making a mockup in:
1. Quality
2. Size in loading page
3. Easier to use
4. Similarity between both of them
Thanks in advance....
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How should i design my websites's homepage? [closed]
I have a website, www.xphoenix.co.in. Before, it's homepage had too much text but no pics, news feed, countdown timers, etc. Actually it's for our team participating in the F1 in Schools competition ...
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Photoshop help to reduce the PSD file size without losing its quality and to create a fast loading page? [closed]
I have beeen working on a website design into a psd format , the file size reached around 300 megabytes.... So is my PSD file as intial design reaching this size is terrible !
I need to end up with ...
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What are some basic guidelines to make a website look nice?
I'm building a website for a client. I look at it and it just doesn't look cool. It gets the job done, which all of the websites I've built get the job done. But I don't think I've ever built anything ...
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How to design a site without pictures
A site I'm creating is a directory which sorts and displays information for about 300 businesses which are part of a specific business partnership/network.
The site is meant to provide information to ...
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Export selected layer from Photoshop to web format
I have this big PSD file (300MB) which I need to somehow, export each layer as a web format (PNG for example) to fit them in a HTML. The only thing I found in PS is in the Scripts menu, the Export ...
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How to become an `awesome-UI' creator like Dribbblers? [closed]
This aims to be an useful and a guideline question for those who knows and visits Dribbble daily and dreams to create awesome user interfaces like those listed in.
I'm a newbie web designer and I ...
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Visibility of elements over different shades of blue
I'm debating which colors to use for my website. We've been trying to find the right colors for the logo and graphics of the site, and struggling with trying to pick between the light and dark blue.
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How does Grid design helps and what are their roles in Website Design
I'm not a designer but I'm learning how to implement an efficient design on a website. How do we decide on the grid used, as far as I can grasp, 3x3 boxes looks good to me. But as I keep reading, i ...
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Tools to put into place for designing for yourself
I know I am my worst enemy from critique to execution. I ask this question because I wanted to know any good ways to stop myself from going on and on in my own work. I have several ideas and things ...
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How to make a site attractive? [closed]
What are the basics of an attractive web design? What should I be looking for and what sources should I use to educate myself on the matter?
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Save individual element in PSD as an image
I am developing a site and got given the design as a PSD, my question is, can I select an individual element, say the social media icons, and save them as an image?
What I have been doing so far is ...
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Learning WordPress for designers does a framework help?
I ask this question because it is in relation to Scott's thread here. I understand we have a WordPress stack exchange but I wanted to know before I dive into WordPress how designers have approached ...
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What real advantages do web templates such as Bootstrap or HTML5 boilerplate have for a designer?
Note, this is about design much more than development.
I build sites from scratch with completely hand written CSS and HTML.
I've known about pre-build css templates such as Bootstrap or HTML5 ...
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How to display an user-defined logo in a Metro dark themed application?
For a Windows application currently under development we have chosen a dark Modern UI theme. As I don't have any representative screenshot at hand, let's say our look and feel is somewhat similar to ...
