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Questions about designing the aesthetic look of websites, both practical and theoretical. For questions about coding the structure of a website, please go to Stack Overflow. For questions about the user experience, please go to UX.SE. Ask anything related to designing graphics and visual layouts here on GD.SE.

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Which unit should be used in web design to define space (margin, padding, etc.)?

Is white space difficult to read when specified as pixels? An EM is a variable unit and is useful when you want to scale something based upon the (variable) size of something else. It is common when …
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Best resolutions for display on the web for high resolution image?

I don't have solid information on this so I am not sure this qualifies as an answer, but min-device-pixel-ratio appears to be a "flag", like dpi BUT it does not get stored with the image, it is a capa …
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Looking for inspiration: examples of a web calendar with fancy "pop-up" details for each day

Sounds like a div box which hovers on click or when you hover on a link: see: http://jqueryfordesigners.com/coda-popup-bubbles/ (click on "try demo") for a person with problems doing this, see also: …
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Golden ratio, with or without padding/margin?

The 4 % makes no difference because the golden ratio is about 1:1.6 interesting:BS. While I think grids and ratios of any sort create a constraint which is useful when devising a layout, the golden ra …
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What's up with the one-page website design fad?

I actually think the first item (the drift bar) you linked has a cool factor: it looks good in motion. It made no sense to me until I actually clicked one of the menu links, and now I see that the an …
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Text flow - when to say "no"?

Clarity is the best option. If the image is especially obvious, then you can break it out from the text and span columns. If you need to qualify it or limit in some way, then context is important to t …
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Creating negative company logos?

"negative" and "black and white" are not synonyms. Many companies have a 1-color version of their logo for things like cardboard boxes and any collateral where it is a waste of money to print more co …
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Crop canvas to unique outline of image in Photoshop

Since you mention jQuery, you can probably rotate the images. You save the images in such a way that you have the least white space within the bounding rectangle, and then rotate that stored image to …
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How do I create a button with two shadows in the bottom?

It is very likely that the person used a 3D software tool or the rudimentary 3D tools in Photoshop to create the shadow. However, this particular example can be made by duplicating the blue shape lay …
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How can I create interactive animations without Flash?

Regarding your other question with the jfiddle example, try adding: onmouseover="this.style.opacity=1.0;this.filters.alpha.opacity=100" onmouseout="this.style.opacity=0.2;this.filters.alpha.opacity= …
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How can you create a "sticky footer" in inDesign?

Look into anchored objects: you can anchor a frame inside another frame and set some of the parameters (e.g. "y offset relative to bottom edge of parent object"). Play around with it a little to befor …
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Illustrator EPS File To PNG Web Logo - Print Quality

The short answer is that the PNG is a low-resolution raster image. The long answer is that it looks good on the screen because it is being rendered at 1 pixel per pixel, but when you attempt to print …
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Transparency in swf file created using png image

It sounds like you are doing it right, but http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/128/tn_12804.html says This image must be saved as a 32-bit images[sic], preferably PNG for best color fidelity. Import the PNG …
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Digital design - screen grab large dimensions?

Do not rely on dpi for measurements: you want to work with exact pixel dimensions always. If you screen grab something, set your pixel dimensions directly. If you re using a device such as a Mac with …
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Why isn't SVG widely used-supported on the web?

I suspect that it has to do with the fact that the needs of design are not met well by pure vector art: many textures and effects are raster based and if you are going to include any raster imagery, t …
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