Questions tagged [web-design]
Web design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser.
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Using JS and CSS parent selector to replace media queries: is it a good practice?
I really don't like media queries in CSS - they have limitations, and on top of that they make the code a lot more confusing.
In addition, the restrictions are so strong that when using CSS ...
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How do big publishers edit their websites?
I've been trying to develop a website with some success for the past few months. One question that I always have lurking at the back of my mind is whether to develop a very in-depth, powerful admin ...
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Allowing a user on one page to be able to cause an event on another
I would like to allow a set of users to be able to submit a form on one page, and then it would cause an event to trigger on another page.
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Submit Page:
Includes the form, the user ...
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Is loading the same .jpg in different qualities a waste of data?
I'm building a web site and I want to use a big background image. Because of speed considerations, I thought that it would make sense to send a low-res version of the image the user first (for fast ...
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Why does :nth-child() in CSS start from 1 instead of 0?
Why does :nth-child() iterate from one instead of zero?
As shown in this example. Why does it select the first element and not the second when
p :nth-child(1)
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Should I use <table> or <div>? [closed]
I am making a time-sheet portion of a website and I was wondering if using to create the time-sheet portion is an appropriate usage of table or would div be a better use?
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PSD to HTML/CSS limitations when using Twitter Bootstrap
How do companies deal with limitations and constraints of Twitter Bootstrap after choosing to use it in a particular project?
Web designers are no longer free to design Web pages. They need only to ...
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How to handle time based events in web application backend?
I'm currently working on design of small web service, and I have a following feature (simplified):
After some user actions, there is a wait period (ranging from 30sec to 40h) and after it's passed, ...
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What's wrong with this approach to CSS?
I have a static Jekyll website.
The website is constructed once, on my computer, and then sent to the server in the form of plain HTML, image, and CSS files, to be served by a regular HTTP server.
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Best way for an external (remote) graphics designer to style ASP.NET MVC 4 app?
My customer has his own graphics designer he wants to use to style his web application we're building in ASP.NET MVC 4.
Our solution is in Bitbucket, but if he can't run it what choices do we have? ...
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How to manage automated emails sent from a web application
I am designing a web application and I am wondering how to design the architecture to manage sending automated emails.
Currently I have this feature build into my web app and the emails are sent ...
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What is the best practice for website design and markup now that mobile browsers are common?
Back in 2008, smartphones were a small market and it was commonplace for sites to be designed for a fixed width - say, 900px or 960px - with the page centered if the browser window was larger. Many ...
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How do web-developers do web-design when freelancing? [closed]
So I got my first job recently as junior web-developer.
My company creates small/medium sites for wide variety of customers: autobusiness companies, weddign agencies, some sauna websites, etcetc, hope ...
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ASP.NET Webforms developers and web designers: how to interact?
I'm an ASP.NET Webforms developer, and I face some problems when I deal with designers.
Designers always complain about the asp.net server controls. They'd rather just have an html file and create ...
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One page using querystring or many folders and pages?
I have an application where I have the 'core' code in one folder for which there is a virtual directory in the root, such that I can include any core files using /myApp/core/bla.asp. I then have two ...
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