Website design is the process of planning and creating websites that can be read/viewed by web browsers
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Do high-content areas of a website need to be white/light-colored?
Many websites that are designed to be easy to read (eg. nytimes.com or ilovetypography.com) use white backgrounds with black fonts to make the content easy to read. Is it necessary to only use light ...
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Different Logo Colors for Different Uses, Appropriate?
I am finalizing the last step of my logo redesign process.
Is it ok not to have a regular color when presenting my logo?
I am thinking about having a defined list of colors for different use cases ...
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Professional looking websites [closed]
Apologies for cross posting from the Webmaster stack exchange but I have a question I'd like to resolve as urgently as possible.
I'm starting to design a site and am at the stage where I have most ...
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How to not make my website have a “1990's” look
I recently launched a comics website, www.hittingtreeswithsticks.com, which I created from scratch. I created my own design because I wanted to keep it unique, and used no templates.
Unfortunately, ...
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Web design components workable on paper [closed]
What are the main components of web design that can be sketched on paper? I refer to the visuals of a design that could be developed by sketches and drawings. Like a sketch of a Web-page view in ...
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Advice on what to put on my home page
I need a little help, and general advice, on what I can put on the front page of my software company's website. I realise that this question is not as specific as some may like it to be, but I hoped ...
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Capture clean Retina screenshot of web page without post production
How can I take a screenshot of a web page on a MacBook Pro with Retina Display (rMBP) that:
Is at a reproducible size
Looks sharp on Retina displays
Without any browser chrome / accouterments ...
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Do most web designers make their own textures?
I'm a web developer by training who is branching into UI/UX design. One of the things my design work lacks compared to experienced designers is subtle use of texture, such as on these sites: ...
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Which Photoshop features are affected by different DPI or PPI tags?
A Photoshop document‘s physical size, pixel density (DPI/PPI) and pixel dimensions are all linked.
Bitmap images contain bitmap data, which are a specific size (pixel dimensions). They also contain a ...
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Designing interesting looking websites in greyscale, minimal tones
I know a business that wanted a website to match their brand, and it would seem that they are allergic to colour. I think designs in greyscale can look amazing, especially in print, but it feels near ...
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Do you have a “formula” for the webfont vs graphic type threshold?
Disclaimer:
I realize there is not a perfect "formula" for this question. I'm looking for your experiential working practices. If you don't have any, I won't hold it against you.
Over the last ...
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For a social network what theme should use ? Dark colors with high contrast or low contrast? [closed]
I'm designing layout for a social networking site, should I use bright colors with low contrast or darker colors with more contrast ?
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What is the different ways in Photoshop to copy the remaining layers and create a new document?
Basically when someone gives me a PSD that has a bunch of copy and other things that I need to quickly strip off to use the background on a web page. What are the fastest ways to clear that and start ...
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Is it ethical to copy the work of other designers?
I am not a graphic designer. I do not consider myself one. I have no grasp of color theory, nor the means or sense of style to create harmonious and tasteful designs. I do, however, possess a good ...
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Screenshots on Mac Monitor Widget [closed]
This may be an odd question. I can't bring up an example now that I'm looking for it, but often, I have seen software displayed on a Mac monitor on a site in a screenshot. When you click on the ...
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How to convert text paths to editable text in an .eps file downloaded from Shutterstock?
I am an experienced PHP programmer, but very new to Illustrator. Finally, the time has come that I need to download artwork from Shutterstock (shutterstock.com) for use on a customer's website.
The ...
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Table having columns and rows exceeding the size page [closed]
I need to display data table which numbers of columns and rows could be quite changeable.
I was thinking to have an horizontal scroll, but maybe this is not a good solution.
Each cell should be also ...
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How to efficiently code a Web site wireframe? [closed]
If you have in your mind, on paper, or on screen an image of your Web site, how should you go about implementing it? Use Adobe Creative Suite? A text/HTML editor?
My understanding is that people ...
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How to get bokeh images to use in web design?
I'm looking for online resources, image libraries, Photoshop actions, tools, or any other means of getting or designing bokeh images (those highly blurred pictures, with colorful circles) for use as ...
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Mobile First and RWD workflow and how to interact with client
Our agency's workflow for creating a website normally consists of:
discuss content-design with client
we create wireframes (with optional, depending on client, approval)
we create one or more pixel ...
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How to create a speckled/pixelated background?
How would I replicate this speckled/pixelated background effect?
You might need to zoom in to see the effect fully.
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Fireworks master pages the same as shared layer?
The more I'm using shared layers, the more I believe there's no real difference between 'Share Layer To All Pages' and master pages. Except for layer sharing being way more flexible, because you can ...
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How much time to design a standard homepage layout? especially within an agency workflow [closed]
Well it depends you say-and I agree with you-It varies depending on the page, how complex it is, the style, how much content, graphics used, effects etc. So let me eliminate some of the variability, ...
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How do get what you want to say into such a few words?
It seems fairly well agreed that people glancing at a site won't read proper paragraphs, only bullet point lists.
I'm really struggling how to say all the things I want in a few bullet points... it ...
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Mockups: Coding vs Drawing?
This isn't about web design but about interface design in general. Is better to code Interface Mockups or "draw" them in a graphics program, like GIMP, Photoshop, etc.?
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Is there a short authoritative reference of basic design rules and principles?
As a web developer, I often find myself working with different non-professional self-called designers. In such situations, I often have to explain them the most basic rules and principles about the ...
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When creating PDF from an image, what determines the screen dimensions when viewed at 100%?
I would like to use pdf for ease of use and annotations when creating previews of my screen designs. However, no matter how I create my pdf, I can't seem to figure out what determines the 100% view of ...
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UX research on where to put website menu? [closed]
If you browse websites, you can find pretty much all types of sidebar menus: on top (like our very own Stack Exchange), as left or right menu bar, or even at the bottom (though that's a less common ...
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Any tips for good tutorials or discussions on web page animation? [closed]
The simple effect I'm ultimately after is this:
load an image in the centre of a web page
have the image slide across to the left
then start loading other text and images around it
I don't mind ...
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Are dotted pictures a new trend in Web Design?
I've noticed lately that some of the websites I visit regularly are adopting a new and bizarre trend in Web Design: "the dotted pictures". Not sure what to call it. It looks as if a pattern of ...
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Design a website with box content type [closed]
I want to design a website. The reference site will be this site. Here you can see the contents are inside the boxes and the page contains three column layout. I need this kind of website with a good ...
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Wireframing tool to design a website idea
I have nothing to do with design, because I don't know how to mix two colors. Some time ago, I've read about some tools which are used in the creation of interfaces for application and web pages.
In ...
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How do you build a webpage with a main text body and 2 columns underneath? [closed]
I have a body of text that I am trying to layout in a visually pleasing way but I can not figure it out. The goal is to have this layout (see psuedocode):
<container>
<main />
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How to go ahead in web design?
I am having a hard time learning web design. I read several books and I know a bit of how to do things. I also like to study with firebug how the "big guys" made their web sites. But when I try to ...
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How to change the background? [closed]
I have a site with simple background-color (white) i would like to change the background like this
new background
How to do it?
Thanks.
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How good is the fonts.com webfont solution compared to the current @font-face standard?
I guess the title says it all. I've been successfully working with @font-face (with near-perfect cross-browser support, if you use all the hacks).
However, a client really wants to use Helvetica, and ...
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Charging an Intellectual Property transfer fee for design work
So, you've finished a design job (eg. a logo design) and the client asks for your IP surrounding the logo, eg copyright, original artwork files, notes, sketches, all of that stuff that went into ...
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How can a design be balanced and yet have a focal point?
The concept of a focal point seems to be a fundamental one in web design, yet doesn't a focal point mean a page cannot be balanced?
Surely by definition a focal point means that the page's 'weight' ...
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Recommended Font Size and Font Style for a Website content
What Font Size and Style is recommended for a web site's content? To make it more readable for the readers or visitors.
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How to control word-spacing in justified text with CSS?
I have 2 blocks of text that are pretty small (just under a paragraph each) and they really look better justified but the problem is that text-align: justify; sometimes adds really large spaces and ...
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Colors appear differently on webpage when saving in sRGB
I've made a webpage with an image next to text, set as the same color I thought I had used for the image. However when I looked at the webpage on Safari (on Mac) I noticed that the actual color of the ...
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Multiple Pages Shared by One Menu [closed]
I'm planning to create a website with many webpages which are shared by a navigational menu.
For example: www.apple.com
Do I have to create separate html files with the same menu code or is there an ...
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Need advice for alphabet search option
(I was going to post an image but I don't have enough reputation, so here's the link of the website: http://www.galco.com/)
I'm redesigning a website and one thing the CEO of the company liked was ...
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Metro Website Template Guidlines
What are some of the rules and guidelines needed to design a Windows 8 "Metro" style website template?
I notice using blocks is one of these guidelines. I'm also noting something about the colors, ...
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How to use H1, H2 etc. tags properly? [closed]
I'm confused on how to use the header tags properly so, I need help for this. Since, it is a very important part of web development.
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Adding visual interest to a website without cluttering it or making the visuals detract from the content
In working on a redesigned website for my university program I feel like I've got a pretty solid foundation. The purpose of the website is to be both informational but, also, to be "fun" and ...
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Modern design - What's that?
I am working on redesigning my website and iterating through fivesecondtests.
The overall feedback is improving but no matter what I change, several people have mentionned that my designs look ...
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How to accomodate different text lengths in translated web content?
I was recently working on a website design and I naturally based my work on the content supplied by my customer.
I knew from the beginning that the site will be accessible in different languages but ...
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Layout Desgin and Color Scheme for a Crisis Mapping Web Application
here are a few screenshots of a web-based crisis mapping software, basically built for both governors and people. The design is somehow combined by ideas from different persons, so we are interested ...
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How to improve this design?
How can I improve this design? I'm kinda new to this and I've just felt a bit demotivated because I've been dealing with a difficult person.
I intend to make the color of the copyright notice darker ...
