I'm starting up a business that revolves around my artistic and digital editing skills, but I'm totally clueless about web design and programming.
I want something that looks fairly professional but in that kind of haphazard, artsy way. A lot of artists' online portfolios have a lot of white space and are very stripped down, almost with this kind of collage look. That's what I'm going for.
How do I find a designer? I can't spend more than a few hundred bucks because I'm still a poor student, but I want somebody talented who knows what they're doing.
posted on Aug 10, 2008 - 9 answers
What's wrong with my CSS that makes top the nav render like this or this on some browsers, and how can I fix it? [more inside]
posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 15 answers 
Any tips on web design WITHOUT style sheets? Yes, I know that's crazy talk. [more inside]
posted on May 22, 2008 - 25 answers
Can I make this work in IE the same as it does in Firefox?
Here is the example i need some CSS help with.
This works properly in Firefox, but needs some help in IE. Any suggestions?
posted on Apr 17, 2008 - 2 answers
[ Flash Filter ] Ok. So after sketching out my client's site, they have informed me that they want the white cross (with the blue gradient) to basically fade, from the outside in to the center, and perhaps have a little sparkle and 'ding' noise as the animation completes. As far as I can come up with, flash is the only way this is going to happen. My question is, how am I going to make this work? [more inside]
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - 33 answers
How do you do this in css? Meaning, specifically, the plotting of pictures in specific spots like that. [more inside]
posted on Mar 18, 2008 - 11 answers
HTML/CSS Design Filter! How do I position two elements in the same line but, one left aligned, and the other right aligned using just CSS? [more inside]
posted on Mar 8, 2008 - 10 answers
How do I swap the order of two HTML elements using CSS? [more inside]
posted on Feb 17, 2008 - 8 answers
I would like to write my own HTML/CSS editor. What would be the best way to go about it? (more inside) [more inside]
posted on Jan 31, 2008 - 14 answers
Semantic markup and the world wide web: non-noob needs an explanation. What is all this semantic markup talk about, and where can I learn more? [more inside]
posted on Dec 22, 2007 - 9 answers
Is there a windows-equivalent to iWeb? I work at an elementary school. I have teachers who want the ease and bells & whistles of iWeb, but we’re all windows here. I don’t care how bloaty the code gets; I just want teachers to look and say “ooooh, pretty!” [more inside]
posted on Oct 18, 2007 - 4 answers
CSS filter: IE7 slides my slideshow ~150 pixels to the right, what gives? [more inside]
posted on Sep 6, 2007 - 11 answers
How can I strip out extraneous CSS rules from my stylesheets? [more inside]
posted on Jul 28, 2007 - 6 answers
Help with right-clicking and underlined links in Firefox. [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2007 - 9 answers
I need a good DHTML menu package. [more inside]
posted on Apr 5, 2007 - 10 answers
I have found it impossible to grasp the concept of CSS. A friend taught me to hand code HTML, then I taught myself how to use Dreamweaver. I love HTML and design nice looking sites that are full of tables, repeated font tags, etc. I really want and need to move on.
I want to learn CSS, but it just does not sink into my pea-brain. I've tried various online tutorials but just can't stay interested, mainly because I get lost pretty quickly into the tutorial.
Certainly it can't be that difficult, what can I do to make this easier for me to absorb?
posted on Mar 27, 2007 - 42 answers
What are great resources for cutting apart a photoshop file into a standards-compliant webpage? [more inside]
posted on Mar 23, 2007 - 4 answers
Dynamic content in the Savings Account table on this page refuses to wrap, and forces the Interest Accounts table beyond the horizontal bounds of the page at 800*600 resolution. Request a resolution-independent solution that does not rely on an encasing table. Further caveats within. [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2007 - 6 answers
I want to learn web design. Not to be hired as a web designer but to design my own business site. I know some (a little) HTML. Is there another language that i should be focusing on that may be easier or better or do i pretty much start with HTML and get very good with that before moving on to something else... [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2006 - 18 answers
Why do the links on this website not work with any browser I've tested (on Mac OS X), but work fine in Internet Explorer 7 (on Windows)? [more inside]
posted on Nov 27, 2006 - 10 answers
Posting on behalf of a friend:
CSS Absolute / relative positioning problem. In designing a course website which has to validate as XHTML (Strict or Transitional), I've come up against a problem with an image. I want the image to remain in the right hand div but resize gracefully. My problem is that the trowel image either interferes with the header (is too high) but IS able to move with the page or doesn't interfere with anything but won't resize with the page! [more inside]
posted on Oct 26, 2006 - 4 answers
I need a tool (web- or Mac-based) that will help me measure how long a web page will take to load. I'm familiar with tools that measure page weight based on the HTML in a document, but I need something that will measure load times including dynamic factors. Does such a beast exist? [more inside]
posted on Oct 16, 2006 - 15 answers
Elegant design of ~500 multiple select elements in HTML? Am new to this whole presentation thing... [more inside]
posted on Jun 2, 2006 - 10 answers
Does anyone know how it's possible to produce an interface for checkbox selection like the one in Gmail? Namely, where you can hold down shift and click the first and last items in a list, and it'll automatically select all the ones in between. Is it possible with simple JavaScript without having to use AJAX or other fancy-pants technology...
posted on May 20, 2006 - 8 answers
I had the great fortune of recently running into this fine fellow, who is currently in the middle of riding his bike from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska clear to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, all in the name of raising money for a youth home for at risk and abused teens in Alaska. Apparently, and unbeknownst to me, he has been wintering here in my home town of Missoula, MT for the past few months, but I only recently met him.
We got to talking about his website, and he mentioned that he had been on the hunt for an easy way for him to mark his progress on a map for visitors and friends to follow. I, being the fairly technically minded guy that I am, would like to help with that. [more inside]
posted on Apr 11, 2006 - 5 answers
What's your favorite HTML, CSS, Javascript web design trick? [more inside]
posted on Mar 16, 2006 - 27 answers
Why exactly does everyone hate IFRAMEs so much? Is there really a good reason not to use them? [more inside]
posted on Mar 9, 2006 - 28 answers
HTML/PHP/XML to PDF: How should I convert an active webpage to PDF format? [more inside]
posted on Mar 8, 2006 - 4 answers
I'm looking for very simple WYSIWYG web development software package like JAlbum, Freeway and RapidWeaver. Are there more packages out there that are very similar and very good for the Mac? [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2006 - 7 answers
I'm making a website in CSS, and I want it to have a left-side navigation menu. It doesn't need to be fancy, just some text links will do. What I want is to have the navigation menu externally linked, so that if I need to change it, I can change it in only one place and have it affect the whole site, like CSS does for the style. My server apparently isn't set up to use server side includes, and I prefer not to use frames. [more inside]
posted on Jan 6, 2006 - 18 answers
I'm a graphic designer for a non-profit who has been drafted into something of a web role. I'm comfortable with design, HTML, and CSS, but feel rather ill at ease with larger 'back-end' technologies. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions for what technology I should learn, and the best book (or other method) by which I could do so. [more inside]
posted on Dec 7, 2005 - 22 answers
CSSFilter: Has anyone cracked the nut of getting a multiple column layout with each column having rounded corners and all columns extending to the same height and at least one of the columns has a variable width/height? [more inside]
posted on Nov 8, 2005 - 14 answers
I'm trying to figure out how to do some vertical centering in two different scenarios. I'm looking for CSS solutions, but plain HTML fixes are welcomed as well -- for either/or. [more inside]
posted on Oct 17, 2005 - 2 answers
Why is it so bad to use tables for web layout? [more inside]
posted on Oct 8, 2005 - 54 answers
Thanks to your answers to this question, I'm going to spend the next month redeveloping our website. But now I'm faced with choosing the right tools for the job. [more inside]
posted on Aug 26, 2005 - 5 answers
I'm having a really hard time getting a site to display correctly cross-platform and cross-browser. What are the best sites for specific advice about such problems? And are there any places that specialize in troubleshooting CSS? [more inside]
posted on May 25, 2005 - 6 answers
Looks like I have to learn Flash. Suggestions for programs, learning materials, etc. Any "war stories"?
posted on Apr 26, 2005 - 8 answers
Recommended online guide(s) for the total neophyte interested in starting a simple personal site? [more inside]
posted on Feb 20, 2005 - 4 answers
I need to make a web page that has 12 different languages, on one page (inc. some right-to-left languages). It's links to customer guides (PDFs) in the different languages - and rather than list them in English (Arabic, bengali, Hindi, Punjabi..) I'd like each language name to be written itn its own script. Can anyone point me to a list of langauge names as text not images, and give me a heads-up on the HTML code required?
posted on Jun 29, 2004 - 10 answers
Basic HTML question re. using tables for no frills layout: if I have a centred table with just one or two TR rows with say 3 TD cells in them, and keep sporadically adding stuff to the cells in the bottom row so that they become humungously long, will something eventually break? Anyway, are tables cool for layout? Or should I be thinking about learning something else?
posted on Apr 30, 2004 - 37 answers
Because I only know pidgin HTML, I'm not sure if what I'm about to ask is Web Design 101 or Web Design 665, but: If I want to have a collapsible list, such that if someone clicked on "Words that start with B" in the following:
Words that start with A
Words that start with B
Words that start with C
the page would then reformat to show
Words that start with A
Words that start with B
balustrade
brickbat
bumptious
Words that start with C
without the whole page having to reload. Can someone please point me to a resource or study-able example?
posted on Mar 30, 2004 - 7 answers
