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What's procedurally important in web building circa 2022?
I'm essentially seeking a "crash course" or explanation in any web building changes over the past few years - best practices, new methods, new pitfalls, etc.
It's been a number of years ...
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Why would I ever NOT use percentage for sizes?
I am an embedded programmer (no GUI), who codes Angular, and, occasionally, Flutter, for fun.
In general, my apps work, but look like an early 90s GeoCities site :-)
On thing that I just can't get my ...
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What are the Best Sizes for Designing an Icon Set Used for Web
The icons that I've created for a website of mine are starting to become a little disjointed in size and styling. I"m wanting to spend some time creating a standardized icon set. I'm most concerned ...
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Saving assets for Web?
Is it best practise to make an icon for example in Ai and then export to png resolution 72 for use on the web?
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Is there best practice when displaying other brands, such as partners or clients, on your website? Full color or greyscale?
We're debating an issue which I'm not entirely sure should be up for discussion.
We have a dozen or so partners who's logos we're displaying on our website. Both our web/marketing designer and I ...
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General-purpose fonts for beginners?
I'm a programmer and a beginner in graphic design. When learning design, I found it very hard for me to decide which font to use in my website. In fact, when viewing separately(i.e. not in a side-by-...
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New web designer - strictly design in the browser, or be open to designing from PSD mockups?
I'm someone that's been following the industry and reading up on web design/development for a good few years, and only now making the leap into studying it properly in order to go freelance. From what ...
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How do you deal with amends from a client?
I'm a web designer currently working with a very demanding client.
I presented them with designs back in May and I'm still working through amends with them. They are making changes to everything and ...
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How to explain "achieving good Usability"
I have a quite hard task right now:
I need to explain agencies and graphic designers, how to design a usable website concept and visual design.
The goal is to give designers a workbook/tips&...
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What are the best practices for dealing with desired line breaks in responsive web design?
I design a great deal of simple single page web items for sales or email. I often find I run into issues with headlines and my desired line breaks at different media widths.
For example, I could ...
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Best practices for full width browser images?
What are the best practices people follow in respect to images on larger viewports?
What size browser should we design for? Meaning how do we deal with high resolution monitors and what % of users ...
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Favicon best practices regarding size and format
I'm busy on a WordPress site and have come to the stage to add the finishing touch, being the favicon. I'm primarily a developer so graphics and icons aren't my strongest point.
What are the best ...
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What are the best practices in defining layouts or shapes of pages in an educational web application? [closed]
I am working on choosing layouts and shapes of page components for a large educational web application containing more than 100 variety of web pages. I am currently trying with flat layouts and trying ...
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How should you web design with foreign typography
Some web design and development projects client's will request capabilities for a foreign translation in their site.
How can you account for this and what are some good practices for
content mockup?...
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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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Which format is better for saving images intended for websites; PNG or SVG?
When exporting / saving images with a transparent background that are intended for websites, should I save it as PNG or SVG? Why?
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