I'm scheduled for a technical interview after the weekend for a front-end development position. I'd like to spend some intensive time beforehand reading relevant blogs and books to prime the ol' noodle and supplement my existing knowledge. Could you recommend some resources? Are there questions you would ask an applicant in this situation, or that you have been asked?
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posted by jsturgill
on Mar 22, 2013 -
10 answers
I've noticed that when I click around the popular
Daring Fireball site, there's a brief whitescreen flash in between pages... i.e., the entire browser window turns white for just a moment before the next page loads. Anyone know why?
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posted by mark7570
on Mar 13, 2013 -
8 answers
I want to create an intra-company website for my co-workers to rate/review widgets. It will not be a commercial venture. Is there is a free or free-ish way to do this?
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posted by vidur
on Feb 19, 2013 -
4 answers
I am handy with HTML, CSS and a little Javascript. I also have a lot of experience with Wordpress theme development. What is the best path for me to become an ace data visualizer on the web?
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posted by Rodrigo Lamaitre
on Feb 16, 2013 -
10 answers
I occasionally contribute tutorials to open source projects and I'm looking for a standard Web page template I can use for these. Although I know HTML/CSS and could write one from scratch, I'd rather spend that time writing more (or better) documentation for the projects. Do you know of any simple, nice looking, open source templates I could use?
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posted by tomwheeler
on Dec 9, 2012 -
3 answers
Tumblr-filtr: is there any way to make
some of my captions show up on the main page, and others just appear on the permalink page?
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posted by hegemone
on Dec 6, 2012 -
2 answers
Know of a good resource for mobile-friendly responsive email templates for html emails?
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posted by mgriffioen
on Nov 30, 2012 -
2 answers
Help me get my Web 2.x (or are we on 3.x now? I've lost track) on. I'm an old-school Web 1.0 developer who wants to kickstart himself into slightly more modern UI and user experience paradigms, and I have a project in mind (of course). The challenge? No expensive tools.
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posted by jferg
on Nov 12, 2012 -
6 answers
Please recommend me some guides about building a modern, lightweight, easy-to-maintain website.
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posted by dragonfruit
on Oct 6, 2012 -
2 answers
Good resources to learn current HTML and CSS for web design? Especially looking for best practices for creating blog websites for modern browsers and devices.
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posted by danceswithlight
on Aug 11, 2012 -
12 answers
Is there a way to enable Facebook Comments Box for mobile viewing in Google Blogger?
I used these
instructions to enable Facebook comments on my blog. It worked out, but it's not showing up in the mobile view.
This
site discusses how to add a widget to the Blogger Mobile Template. The Facebook Comments Box is not exactly a widget. I imagine there's probably a solution to getting it to appear in the mobile view, similiar to
this, but I don't know how to do it. Is there a way to add something like this (mobile='yes') to the plugin code?
posted by Bushmiller
on Jul 25, 2012 -
0 answers
What is the name of this info box that pops in when you scroll to the bottom of a webpage? Seen here
here but also on many other pages.
posted by MarvinJ
on Mar 21, 2012 -
5 answers
I'm hoping to put together a relatively simple website on which to put various stories and essays my friends and I are writing. I'm aiming at imitating old journals and newspapers (
like this), fairly simple, mostly text. Do you guys know any great examples of this type of layout online that I could scope out, and if I wanted to start prototyping it myself relying as much as possible on CSS and javascript, what would be some resources I should consider?
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posted by BlackLeotardFront
on Feb 16, 2012 -
4 answers
I'm trying to make my image links in a div start at 0.8 opacity, and on hover, bump up to 1 opacity. This works fine - until I also introduce text links to the same div. Then, the 0.8 starting opacity applies to the text as well, making it look weird. Any way to make it apply to the image links only?
Thanks.
posted by kmccormi
on Feb 9, 2012 -
5 answers
I'd like a web designer to style (in CSS) shown/hidden content on our new website. But I'm having trouble finding good examples.
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posted by fonetik
on Feb 1, 2012 -
6 answers
Can any web designers speak to what's up with the <marquee> tag? I want to use it in a tasteful, scrolling-credits-type way — is it even worth doing?
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posted by FreelanceBureaucrat
on Nov 30, 2011 -
6 answers
Doing some web design after being out of it a long time and my brain isn't in gear. I'm admittedly rusty and oblivious to the latest trends, codes and plugins for designing some of this basic stuff right now. Main goal: if I can make my client's dream site an awesome reality in a quick manner while remaining as lazy as possible, that would be fantastic! ;)
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posted by miss lynnster
on Nov 9, 2011 -
15 answers
Hope me! I have a Wordpress foodie blog and I have a kitchenware retail website. I want to take the blog and export it to my website. Somehow. It gets a little more complicated and I'd really appreciate some help walking me through the various procedures. Wise advise on blog organisation would also be deeply appreciated. Apologies in advance for the longwinded rambling to follow.
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posted by ninazer0
on Nov 2, 2011 -
3 answers
This weekend I'm setting up a website for an academic event. I'd like the homepage of the site to have large, clickable progress bars that display the number of posts for each of the subpages (News & Announcements, Blog, Events, etc.). As more posts are added to each of the subpages (posts would likely be sorted and displayed by category and tag), its respective progress bar takes up more screen real estate and the tally count listed on/near it increases. Basically, I want the homepage to look like a giant, dynamic bar chart. Is there a freeware (or cheap) template, widget or piece of code that allows me to do this?
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posted by iamkimiam
on Sep 15, 2011 -
7 answers
CSS/Javascript filter: I have a website that is one long page, broken into sections. It includes a side menu; if you click on one of the links in the side menu, it automatically scrolls to that section. How can I set it up so that whichever section is on-screen automatically highlights the side-menu section?
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posted by nushustu
on Sep 12, 2011 -
4 answers
I want to learn about programming and making websites. Where to start, and how to proceed from there?
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posted by Busoni
on Aug 14, 2011 -
18 answers
What should a web developer read to understand the HTML/CSS usage and best practices that are common on the web today?
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posted by pbh
on Aug 4, 2011 -
5 answers
Are there any good books/free online courses/tutorials for learning the basics of graphic design for web sites in particular?
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posted by mccarty.tim
on Jul 31, 2011 -
8 answers
I'm trying to help my friend put together a simple site, using wordpress as a platform for a static site/CMS. I'm having trouble moving the header (and all the content below it I suppose) to the top of the screen, 3px from the top. Could anyone help me by looking at the source code?
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posted by FireStyle
on Apr 26, 2011 -
6 answers
The default plain text editor on my work computer drives me up the wall, and I'm not allowed to download a replacement. Are there any online plain text editors I can use to draft an occasional HTML or CSS file and preview my results?
posted by ocherdraco
on Apr 22, 2011 -
11 answers
I need to slap together a website FAST that contains a map and a (sortable? filterable?) list of Wisconsin-related protest/rally events. I'd really, really like it if people could enter their own events and they'd show up on the map without a lot of intervention on my part.
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posted by desjardins
on Mar 10, 2011 -
11 answers
What IDEs, editors, or general tools do people use to do web development? I'm a linux geek, so my tool of choice is gVim. But I'm teaching a course on this right now and don't want to inflict my prejudices on the students, and I'd like a broader perspective. So if you're a web developer, what do you use? NetBeans, Notepad? Something in-between?
posted by handee
on Mar 2, 2011 -
38 answers
I'd like to make an incremental flowchart for my personal Web site. Is this possible using only my limited HTML + CSS skills? Long explanation and sample graphic inside.
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posted by Shepherd
on Jan 18, 2011 -
10 answers
What are your favourite plugins, IDEs, tools and tricks for client side web development? I'd like to have a "tip of the week" or a "plugin of the week" spot in a course I'm delivering. Main content of the course is HTML5/JavaScript/CSS, with a bit of JQuery and Silverlight.
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posted by handee
on Jan 15, 2011 -
15 answers
Help me learn how to build a modern website. I have general knowledge of basic HTML, my own domain and host, and a number of ideas. Where can I learn to make my ideas into a proper website?
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jan 10, 2011 -
10 answers
This html/css problem has been driving me crazy: in IE, URLs that are coded: <a href="http://www.ecaa.ee/?">www.ecaa.ee</a> are rendered on screen as 'http://www.ecaa.ee/'
but as you can see the http is not in the label. Similarly, mailto: links have the 'mailto:' rendered in front of them even though this only appears in the href attribute. It only happens with the associated stylesheet, not if I view the non-styled html doc in IE. It does not happen in any other browser.
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posted by Skyanth
on Dec 7, 2010 -
10 answers
Oh, Internet Explorer, how I despise you. I'm de facto webmaster for a small Center at a well-known university. I made a web page that, IMO, looks much nicer than the one we have now. Of course it's not properly displaying in IE, but looks fine in Chrome and Firefox. Any idea what code I need to throw in there to make things render okay in IE? Please please don't say I have to go back to a fixed-width wrapper and absolute positioning. Full disclosure: I'm a librarian, not a web designer. 100% self-taught with the HTML and the CSS and all this nonsense. Don't tell me to hire a web designer, because then I won't have a job. (warning, selflinks inside)
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posted by booknerd
on Dec 1, 2010 -
20 answers
Having skipped pre-school HTML and CSS, I have no idea how to put two images in my wordpress header.
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posted by doost
on Nov 27, 2010 -
7 answers
I have been out of website coding the past seven years. I still have a webiste but it is coded in very simple HTML with little or no CSS. From what I remember back then CSS was not supported fully by all he browsers. Broadband internet was also not as widely used as it is today so I hesitated in using images for my site. Is there a book that will bring me up to date with the latest coding technologies (Ajax, HTML, CSS)?
posted by alshain
on Nov 14, 2010 -
12 answers
Is their a service that would allow me to upload my images and embed them into my website in a particular style (see
this link for a crude mock-up). I also want the ability for the user to click on an image and for a bigger version to appear (using jQuery or some other javacript library).
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posted by nam3d
on Oct 12, 2010 -
5 answers
I have the PSD, I have average knowledge of Photoshop, PHP, CSS & HTML and I have a Wordpress blog. What advice can you give me on making my blog look like the PSD?
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posted by jontyjago
on Sep 17, 2010 -
14 answers
I need to make a website for a family member (a classical musician) by the end of next month. I'm familiar with basic HTML and CSS, but I need to become fluent. Any web developers on MF?
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posted by jykmf
on Sep 16, 2010 -
23 answers
