Website design is the process of planning and creating websites that can be read/viewed by web browsers
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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 ...
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Share your most inspirational social media homepages! [closed]
What do you find the most inspirational social media type website homepages?
This is to collect some nice sleek looking social media type websites that have a original and nice homepage.
I know the ...
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Looking for a tool to annotate the Web page mockups I am given with sizing info before I craft HTML/CSS for them
I usually get Web page designs that I have to craft HTML/CSS for.
At the moment I use tools such as OS X's own Preview to size up various parts of the designs I get in order to extract widths and ...
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Where would I find a high quality version of a wooden floor like this?
It is to be used for background on a website. I like it exactly the way it is except that the image quality is not good enough. Looking for quality that will look good on a Retina screen. Must be able ...
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Looking for suggestions for making type more readable with a drop shadow
I want to show a menu with indented items on top of a black background. I tried a lot of colors but can't find the right ones.
I'm using css property text-shadow:
text-shadow: 1px 1px #191919 , -1px ...
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Photoshop Image Slicing For Web Design
I have a webpage designed in Photoshop. But the primary background image is designed little different than the usual way.
Large image.
I need to keep the texture and use the background in ...
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How To Achieve This Type of Page Border
I'm taking this website as an example: BuddyMiller.com
Is that border that looks like a nice persian rug, surrounding the page, something I would get from a template online (I've been searching ...
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Need suggestions on elements arrangement and picking colors
I'm making a new site, but I feel like colors or elements dimension aren't that good at all, I want it to look elegant and makes the user comfortable when looking at it. Right now I'm not getting that ...
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Presenting PNG screen comps
Just wondering if anyone has hammered out any good solutions to presenting PNG screen comps to clients, especially if there are more than a dozen screens. Adobe Bridge has some half decent HTML ...
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Crop canvas to unique outline of image in Photoshop
I have unique shapes for my menu background, the problem is that the .png's are linked in the transparent area. I am looking to crop the canvases of these images in Photoshop to their exact unique ...
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Textures - How to use in Web Design
Basically, I love how people use textures in web design. But as most website designs are "fluid", how do you make them work for all monitors and make them seamless? For Example, on the website ...
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Is it possible to divide one Photoshop document into multiple source files?
I am new to Photoshop and therefore in need to get familiar with it fast.
I wonder, if there is a way to divide Photoshop like a website, to make every picture (such as a website logo) editable ...
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Creating negative company logos?
Is it standard practice to create negative copies of a companies logo if they don't provide one.
I'm asking as I'm creating a website which will have a companies page where I would like to list the ...
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Music Player on Website [closed]
I know that having a music player on a website isn't necessary nowadays. But I have a client that really wants one on their website. The problem is making the music player play constantly (the user ...
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Is there a standard size(width) for email newsletter design or something like a christmas e-card?
I have to design this e-mail newsletters.
Some with just simple holiday cards and some more complex with offers and other stuff(images, text content etc. etc...)
I am wondering if there is a safe ...
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What materials should a web designer using Photoshop send to a developer?
I have been implementing mainly web and desktop applications and this is the first time that I actually started working with a graphic designer on a web site that is for public use. In this case the ...
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Using stock images for mock ups
When making a design (as a freelancer), how do I handle stock images?
Do you buy the stock image(s)? Or do you find an image via Google or whatever and later replace it with a similar stock image?
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What tools to use when designing for web? [closed]
I wanted to know what applications or tools should I use while designing for the web. It would be great to know what are the cost of the hardware/software involved.P.S.It would be great to know if ...
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Best resolutions for display on the web for high resolution image?
I have a RAW image taken with a Canon 5D, so the image's resolution is 5,616 × 3,744.
I am going to display a different resolution of the image depending upon the requesting user's display. I'm ...
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How can I match a site's background color in both Chrome and Firefox?
I'm designing a page with both a background image and a background color for the area past the end of the (gradient) background image.
Something like:
background: url("/images/bg.png") repeat-x ...
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Is a 8-Bit IPS display necessary for web designing?
I'm doing web design (not print or photography) and I'm wondering if I should spend extra money on a display that provides more accurate colors.
I'm already set on buying IPS since they're easier on ...
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How can I improve my color selection skill?
I'm a web developer, started to become a web designer. However, I think my understanding of colors is not practical yet. There are tools out there that can give you color harmonies, and more stuff, ...
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DIN Font free alternative
I need a websafe alternative to DIN font. Obviously it needs to have a free copyright. Anyone know of a good one?
Thanks!
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How to design sites with dark colours (red and black palette)
The graphic designer for my club created a red and black logo (major color is black highlighted with red). Everyone thinks it looks great, and I agree. The issue lies with designing the site. We've ...
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Popular serif and sans-serif browser compatible font combinations?
I was curious as to which combinations of serif and sans-serif fonts are preferable to use that are compatible with most browsers.
While I am aware that with the introduction of CSS3 importing ...
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What's up with the one-page website design fad?
I've seen an influx of websites that put all of their content on one page, ala this site. Even the sites on some of the lists I see in Smashing Magazine do this (like this one, with what seems like a ...
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How to “draw” pointed corner drop shadows in Adobe Illustrator CS5
I have this image which I want to re-draw/reverse engineered so that I can use it at different sizes as resizing it cause it to look bad.
But I can't seem to figure out how to do it. The drop ...
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Why does Google want a vertical scrollbar on search page when it's not necessary
On Google's search page there is a visible vertical scroll bar even when it is not necessary. This can be avoided by deleting the following style from body selector
overflow-y: scroll;
When this ...
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Different sizes/dimensions on export & save as web in Illustrator CS5
I have a file which is 1020px X 200px Artboard/Document dimensions and the drawings coves the whole artboard as follows.
When I "Export" the file as "png" (File>Export) it's dimensions change to ...
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Tasteful Alternative to Marquee
So a client of mine is making repeated requests for things that were "cool" when her website originally launched in the late nineties. One feature is a scrolling marquee that just says "welcome to ...
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Objective reasons to center or left-align tables and images within text columns?
First, let me emphasize that while I am asking a question about preference, I am looking for objective reasons to prefer one answer over another. I am not interested in your personal, subjective ...
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Tools for *lossy* PNG compression?
I'm trying more and more to get by sans PhotoShop for my personal/freelance work. I do primarily web work these days and don't do enough side gigs to justify keeping up with the Creative Suite beast.
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How should I add a realistic shadow to this?
I'm working on a mockup of a jQuery slider which can be found here.
Now, I'm not the best graphic designer by any stretch of the imagination, and I can't seem to be able to get a realistic looking ...
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How to make a image fade out to both sides
I want to use an image in different screen resolutions with fading and the same background color. In a website, the image will not scale, but the background will. Something like this:
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Shadow below images
I have this image that I got from slidesjs.com
It looks awesome when used as a frame, but I want to "elongate" it. Steps on how to accomplish this? I know it looks like a simple shadow, but the ...
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How can I improve my website design? [closed]
I'm launching a company and currently working on the website. Here is the link: http://goo.gl/HKbIK
As I'm not a professional webdesigner your comments / feedback / suggestions of improvements would ...
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What is the fastest way to copy a colour in Photoshop as HEX?
A lot of designers use Photoshop as a design and mockup tool. And in doing so, one of the last steps can be to get a lot of the colour information out so things like gradients and dynamic text can be ...
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Image Sizing problem from photoshop to web
I'm new to the web designing stuff, so I bought a template. I want to change some text in my header. It is saved as a png image. I opened the PSD file in photoshop and changed the text.
I then ...
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Photoshop Navigation Menu HTML/JS [closed]
I am working on a site at the moment and I have run into a problem which i am not sure if the problem is with my images or the html/JS code.
I am making a navigation menu with 7 images that will ...
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Should a period be included in a drop cap letter that represents an abbreviation?
I have a paragraph that is drop capped and begins with the word 'U.K.' Currently, the CSS (cascading style sheet) standard for Web browsers is to include the period following the 'U' in the drop cap, ...
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Why do people keep telling me my site looks awful?
I've developed a website, and recently was looking for a job. Practically all interviewers, after taking a quick glimpse at it, told me my site was designed awfully (but liked the concept). I should ...
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Free pixel icon sets on the web?
where I can find very small and clear icons that I can use in a personal (non-commercial) project?
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Good sites to find textures online?
I'm always on the lookout for good textures, as they are pretty subtle but can add a lot of life to your site. Recently I found Tileables (http://tileabl.es/) which looks pretty cool. Can you ...
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What is the widest character in the “Helvetica Neue” font? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
what is the largest glyph width in Arial?
Doing some web design and I need to give a div a specific size. However, I do know how many characters are in the text box, so ...
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Learning how to design a webpage [duplicate]
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Tips and sources for beginning designers
I am now completing my first website written in python. I started learning front-end development languages such as javascript ...
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waves, tide minimal effect.. some ideas on to improve a attraction “hotspot”
Some advise is wanted from you great guys and gals on the below image.
the idea is to represent a "hot spot" of "waves" where your eyes are drawn into.
This concept makes you feel like clicking the ...
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Is there any way to save a Web page screenshot with a transparent background?
I prototyped my web page directly in HTML/CSS, using custom fonts for header text.
The font rendering however is very different on Windows, so I would like to export some parts of the Web page to ...
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illustration tools for beginners
I'm a software developer and am working on a personal project (website + iphone/ipad app). I need simple illustrations for these to fill in the blanks until the project gets "some" paying customers or ...
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Site registration [closed]
What are some good (very engaging) examples of a site registration? Not just the typical form fill out. But with some bells and whistles. ie: Choose your favorite exercise activity by dragging and ...
