Website design is the process of planning and creating websites that can be read/viewed by web browsers
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rounding corners of different-size elements
In our web application we are adding rounded corners on small elements (e.g. 60px buttons and tabs), medium elements (e.g. 150px dropdown menus, help-tips sections), and large elements (e.g. 600px ...
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Help/docs for using Inkscape for SVG icon font creation
I was deliriously happy to find this blog post about using Inkscape and one or another online converter to create web font kits. My interest is specifically in icon fonts.
While that article was ...
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Could someone recommend an app for simple designing of icons? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are some good resource for programmers to design icons?
I have been developing web and iPhone applications for our company to use internally. For the artwork I've ...
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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 is a good general document size for web page mockups and prototypes?
I do mockups and prototypes of sites and designs all the time, but I've always wondered if there is a standard size or width I should be using. Generally I'll make my document either 1024, 1200, or ...
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Possible fonts for tabs in technical site heading hierarchy [closed]
As we sort of came to accept as an axiom - the heading fonts for any document should be arranged in an hierarchy, and the hierarchy font choices should make sense and match.
I have a design that ...
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Dashes or Underscores? [closed]
What's the standard (or is there a standard) when saving files to use dashes or underscores? Is there a big difference between the two when it comes to saving images for online (SEO)? I've worked at a ...
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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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Beginner Web Designer [duplicate]
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Tips and sources for beginning designers
For some time now I have been strugling with my inability to create my own web designs. I am a pretty decent coder but I always ...
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Should I place the border above or below header to separate sections?
If the content is split into several sections, and each section has a header, should I put border below or above the header?
The “border below” approach seems prevalent (see Google, Wikipedia) but ...
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I want to find a good font combination based on existing design
I am designing a mobile site for an existing website that was made in early 2000's.
The existing logo uses a bold version of Bodini with smaller text which uses a thin sans serif typeface. The ...
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Is it possible to make “paragraph” the default text format in Dreamweaver
I often add rows to tables in Dreamweaver once a day and then add text to these.
it is annoying to always have to change the text format to paragraph, is there a way to make paragraph the default ...
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Stock Photo resource collections for Salons?
I apologize in advance if this may be off topic (I'm new here so I am not quite sure)
But I have sifted through many Stock Photography resources and I have found very little to none, reasonably ...
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Design cues for draggable page components
I'm working on a web project where a user will be able to edit the ordering of a list. I'd like to update the visuals for the items that are draggable so that there is a a clear indication of each of ...
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How do I export a JPG with the same color profile as my Photoshop workspace?
I created a design for a webpage in Photoshop and got all the colors looking perfect.
However, when I export it to a jpeg and view it outside of Photoshop the colors are completely different. If I ...
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Diagramming a web site
How can a web site be diagrammed to show different database elements, web UI elements, and different web pages in relation to each other (all are part of the same web site)?
Essentially I want to be ...
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How can I achieve a better 3D lifting effect of a logo for a website?
This is my current approach, only the shadow moves. http://tinkerbin.com/uekpe227
This is a second approach, both the shadow and the letters move. http://tinkerbin.com/LjiGDKa7
And in the last ...
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What should I ask from a designer, a single PSD or multiple PSD files?
I hope its okay to ask this around here, was not sure where such a question would fit.
I am not a Graphic Designer, but a mere programmer :) I do have basic knowledge of operating Photoshop (watched ...
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how to get that new JSFIDDLE/Twitter/Youtube effect in photoshop?
As all the big sites have been updating their style recently, I've noticed this effect on a few sites and I'm wondering how they do it.
Its like this normal gradient effect, with this pattern, abbit ...
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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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Best Tools & Tutorials to transition from Flash to HTML5
A friend of my is a Flash designer and animator, and uses tools like Adobe Flash CS5. She want's to learn to do similar work in HTML5.
What tools and tutorials are available (free or commercial) to ...
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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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how to create a box which is engraved in photoshop [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Sunken look in photoshop?
I saw this effect for input box in ''checkmycolours'' site, it seems really beautiful, but i don't know how to create engraved box.
so if ...
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Common mistakes that we make while designing for web & how to avoid them
What are some common mistakes to avoid while designing? I know color, text and images play a major part in designing, but there are so many other things that we need to take care of! I don't know ...
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16x16 pixel icons for commercial use in web apps [closed]
I'm looking for quality 16x16 pixel icons for use in general web applications, that cover common web app concepts like users, links, images, tools, etc. They can be free or paid for, but must be ...
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icons for web technologies [closed]
Hi I'm working on my own portfolio, and so I'd like to have some icons for technologies that I work with. So does anyone know of free icon sets that include css, php, c#, html5 and other web ...
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Why do logos appear on the left on the overwhelming majority of websites?
The title really says it all. I mean, is there a particular reasons for which logos have to appear at the upper-left corner and not, say, in the upper-centre?
Example: all Stack Exchange sites, ...
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How can I improve these secondary pages without a radical redesign
I am more of a web developer than a web designer so I would appreciate it if I can get some tips on how to improve http://tinyurl.com/7my6g6m 's design/looks and other secondary pages on this site. ...
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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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Triangle cut corners CS5 Photoshop
How do you effectively cut out triangles in Photoshop for a web design easily? Is the only way to use the polygonal lasso tool, which always gets me triangles of unequal sizes. I'm trying to achieve ...
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Icon to indicate “not a member”, “guest” or “visitor” but not in a “no-access” kind of way
In my app I need an icon to compliment a link for an app for a sport/club venue.
[ICON] Member Booking
[ICON] Visitor Booking
Is there any icon that springs to mind for a "visitor" - the context is ...
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What are the available css frameworks? [closed]
I have been trying to find a nice css framework so I can put it as my main design style and re-use it in my web developments without having to think about the style that much.
So far I have found ...
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Illustrator how to crop and save images
I have a website someone designed for me in AI but i am not sure how to crop out pieces and select layers and save them to design my website. I am only used to the way of photoshop finding the layer ...
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A good web design book in Japanese
A question for the Japanese-speaking part of the Graphic Design society - is there a book on web design (mostly - non-technical aspects like usability) in Japanese that you could recommend?
There is ...
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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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Does PS have editable styles like InDesign?
Does photoshop have a way to edit a style in the styles menu, and re-apply it across the whole document? InDesign handles this nicely, and saves a lot of time with indecisive clients.
Basically I ...
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Should your website and logo have the same color scheme
I am working on a completely new blog from scratch. New logo, branding, house style, everything needs to be done. Now the logo that is designed for the website has 3 colors, brown, green and black. ...
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Mobile Web application graphic design
The resolution of the iPhone 4/4s is 960x640 and the the iPhone 3gs is 480x320. How does one go about designing web pages for mobile devices with all sorts of different resolutions? Do the mobile ...
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Is graphic designing (web pages) mostly faux, unreal, unscalable and somewhat based on illusion?
Is design mostly faux, unreal, partly based on illusion which combines different elements and combines into one beautiful piece, which is not scalable but give a nice look to the eye. Consider these ...
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Where can I find examples of high contrast combinations for websites?
I like the idea behind http://contrastrebellion.com/, and plan to implement that on my websites.
However, I'm a developer, not designer. I read a lot about the subject -where I must build the ...
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In webdesign how do you calculate the ideal bottom margin for headers?
I've seen a few css frameworks add margin-bottom to heading elements in addition to a large line-height. Example from here.
h1 { font-size: 46px; line-height: 50px; margin-bottom: 14px;}
h2 { ...
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Is it possible to create a modern-looking design with a dark theme?
I was asked a website redesign with two requirements:
Inspired by Google Plus (clean, minimal, a lot of "white" space)
Switchable between a White version and a Black version
Here's my problem: ...
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What to do with these errors when I open a PSD file in my Photoshop CS3 (Windows 7) while PSD is made by Photoshop (Mac OSX)
I'm a Web Designer and when I open some PSD files in my Photoshop CS3 (Windows 7) I get these messages pop-up before to open PSD. My fellow designer use Photoshop on Mac OSX.
Error 1
Some text ...
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This graphic gets in the way of the photo too much. How can I achieve the same effect without taking away from the content?
I've got a simple image slider on this site I'm doing. You can click through images, but I wanted it to really pop so I added a graphic element over top of the images to give some depth, like a folder ...
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What aspects of HTML5 are replacing Flash?
Everyone is saying that flash design is dead for websites. Besides the issue of compatibility with "iDevices", why else should flash be kicked out the designer's door?
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Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator for web design [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Designing A Website from Scratch – Illustrator or Photoshop?
Would you recommend Adobe Photoshop, or Adobe Illustrator for a professional freelance web designer on a ...
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Any ideas on how to fill a blank sidebar?
I would like to have some suggestions on how to fill my sidebar empty space on a feed aggregator. One solution may be advertising, but for now advertising is not acceptable in the page.
A second ...
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What's a good (and easy) way to show that a screenshot is a screenshot?
I'm using Mac OS X 10.6 and I like the system screen grab tool. By default when you grab an entire window it will put a bit of a shadow / gradient below it, with transparency, using a PNG image - ...
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Should I (a web designer) stick with gimp, or buy Photoshop?
I am a web designer.
I do not use/own any adobe products... except for watching flash videos online of course.
I currently use gimp 2.6 for my graphic needs. It's free and I know how to use it.
The ...
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What to do to polish a website design? [closed]
I'm the type of person who's between a programmer (because I enjoy it) and a designer (because I have a sense for it).
I've been designing various websites in the past years and while they've been ...
