What is the most interesting fine visual art that has been made for the web? I am especially interested in experimental stuff that could never exist as a conventional painting or sculpture, and which can only be experienced online. Any examples appreciated!
posted by mortaddams
on Apr 16, 2011 -
13 answers
I built and maintain a fairly basic website for my daughter's nursery school, and I need to know the simplest way to integrate a blog feature (to be utilized by the teachers), as well as a way to allow the school's director to make updates from time to time to a particular page of content without having to teach any of them how to use Dreamweaver CS4 (this is key), which I use to maintain the site. I am by my own admission more of a designer than a coder (the technical stuff is not my strong suit), and on top of this I have a pretty limited time frame in which to accomplish this. Other than hiring someone else to do it for me, can anyone offer suggestions? I thought about using Wordpress - either integrating it into the site as is, or starting over and rebuilding the site in Wordpress. But I haven't come to any conclusions yet (obviously!).
posted by missuswayne
on Apr 14, 2011 -
11 answers
How can I edit/alter a friend's Google Spreadsheet Form so I can put my own answer in required list items?
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posted by gryftir
on Apr 13, 2011 -
2 answers
I am putting together a proposal for my English class. It proposes that cameras should be required in meat processing plants all along the "dissemble" line, and broadcast "to the public somehow," (probably via web-feed or something) . Is there such a thing, in any law, in any jurisdiction (even outside of the U.S.)?
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posted by Monkey0nCrack
on Apr 10, 2011 -
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I'd like to be able to embed a grid of thumbnails of products either scraped by search terms or manually entered - products from, ideally, multiple sites with affiliate programs, but barring that just Amazon would do - onto a web page.
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posted by luriete
on Apr 8, 2011 -
5 answers
I want to write a tool for multiple-searching a site that only supports single-searches. What's the best implementation language?
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posted by Four Flavors
on Apr 4, 2011 -
7 answers
How I do know when a specific part of a specific page is updated on the web? I want to take advantage of an online sale, so I need to be notified when the deal is available...
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posted by OneMonkeysUncle
on Mar 28, 2011 -
7 answers
I plan to talk to a lawyer about this but right now, I'm doing my research and would like to reach out to the MeFi community for advice.
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posted by wesker
on Mar 27, 2011 -
19 answers
Slicing a web design layout in Photoshop - is this a conventional web design practice? What are the pros and cons?
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posted by Ms. Toad
on Mar 22, 2011 -
20 answers
I have tried Elgg and BuddyPress, but those solutions just don't seem to work very well, mostly because of issues with the templates.
I want to develop an online community that is based around my online radio station.
The community should have forums, chat, galleries, user search, comments, walls, and
all the other basic stuff that comes with an online community. It needs to be completely graphically customisable
I'm looking for the best solution that is under $600, but preferable free.
posted by digdan
on Mar 21, 2011 -
8 answers
I teach a bunch of photography courses, and at the end of the course I always try to hand out some useful links to online examples and tutorials. I'd like to set up a low-maintenance link dump for the material, but not sure how.
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posted by monocultured
on Mar 20, 2011 -
7 answers
Need a line or two of (I think simple?) custom PHP for my design portfolio website. Could you be the King of Kings?
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posted by Senor Cardgage
on Mar 17, 2011 -
13 answers
Getting into web design (or maybe graphic design?) professionally a couple years after completing a good but in some ways lacking college education. I'm looking to fill in the blanks in my knowledge. Am I on the right track?
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posted by miraimatt
on Mar 6, 2011 -
8 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
Is there to-do list software out there that
randomly chooses what you should do next?
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posted by eisenkr
on Mar 2, 2011 -
3 answers
I want to do web design work for free. Where should I be looking for collaborators/clients?
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posted by ella wren
on Mar 1, 2011 -
13 answers
I'm looking for recommendations for ecommerce software that is easily customizable for a fairly code savvy designer which provides a very user friendly interface for my clients to add new items to the store.
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posted by ljshapiro
on Feb 24, 2011 -
5 answers
Selling EPUB e-books, adding on to a custom shopping cart app: handle like any downloadable file? DRM? If DRM is a bad idea, good layperson-accessible article explaining clearly why not? If DRM is a good idea, how is it implemented?
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posted by amtho
on Feb 22, 2011 -
14 answers
Ok, here's a stupid-sounding idea: can someone point me to a guide to how to manipulate an Access database client-side on a web page?
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posted by ctmf
on Feb 21, 2011 -
14 answers
Are there any sites out there that work on a principle similar to gnod, but for finding web sites you might like? i.e. You input sites that you like, and it gives you a list of other sites you might also like.
posted by paul!
on Feb 12, 2011 -
6 answers
I have severe 1Password/Lastpass confusion. Does one supercede the other or are they meant to be used concurrently, in an ideal situation? I'm confused whether they perform the same function or not.
Please help me organize my stuff!
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posted by damiano99
on Feb 10, 2011 -
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Mark of the Web - I am confused. I'm making a site that will be delivered via CD-Rom as an option (for offline use, contains a lot of video and some javascript). It seems MoTW is necessary. Is that right?
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posted by media_itoku
on Jan 28, 2011 -
2 answers
I work for an established technical company moving into the web space and we need to decide whether we're going to use Java or .Net for an emerging web platform. Where can I find non-frothing arguments from reputable sources?
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posted by CHABOXERS
on Jan 28, 2011 -
10 answers
I'm digital arts student who wants to visualize internet addiction.
How do I log browser activity: not just history...but back, forward, scrolling, and the seconds between each action?
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posted by victory_laser
on Jan 23, 2011 -
6 answers
I was looking at the
webpage for a sci-fi webcomic called Drive, and I noticed that the web designer had included a modified version of the RSS icon that meshed very nicely with the feel of the webpage. I was wondering if anyone else had noticed any other websites that had similarly jazzed up (or down, I guess) the RSS icon to better fit their page. To be clear, I'm not just looking for fancy versions of the icon (Google image search turns up hundreds of those), but instances of altered icons being
used well in actual webpages.
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posted by ErWenn
on Jan 20, 2011 -
3 answers
I'm looking for a calendar widget that I could embed on a Blackboard site.
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posted by crios
on Jan 20, 2011 -
6 answers
I want to learn Web design. It is my goal to create web sites with the latest techniques. Where can i learn the skills on-line ? Also, i would love to be informed about useful forums or communities on-line that would actively assist a newbie like me.
posted by Yiba
on Jan 17, 2011 -
13 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
Asking for a friend... need a webapp for collaborating on large binary files. Any suggestions?
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posted by olinerd
on Jan 12, 2011 -
4 answers
What are some good resources for finding out about recent/new/upcoming non-fiction books that discuss the web or the internet?
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posted by cortex
on Jan 7, 2011 -
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