How can I build a component library so our designers and developers keep things synchronized and don't end up doing a lot of double and triple work?
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posted by eleyna
on Mar 6, 2013 -
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Easy-to-use templates (or something?) for a visual arts portfolio site? I already have a domain name and hosting, so I'm not looking for DeviantArt/Tumblr/CargoCollective, etc.
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posted by jorlyfish
on Oct 9, 2012 -
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I'm looking for practice-oriented websites and blogs about web development. Specifically, I'm interested in writing pertaining to Python, Django, and front-end techniques (HTML5/CSS/Javascript), though a bit of PHP/Wordpress-specific info couldn't hurt. Examples inside. Help learn me, please!
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posted by nosila
on Aug 8, 2012 -
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I love wordpress but I am finding that it seems to be very unsecure when it comes to viruses and hacking. What do other Wordpress users do to keep their sites secure and safe?
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posted by hellodonna
on Mar 2, 2012 -
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I'm building a blog-like site that will have lots of old stories about a particular rural area. I'll be adding lots of supplemental information about some of the places, people and things the author talks about, and I'm trying to decide how to display it.
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posted by nosila
on Nov 21, 2011 -
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I've been toying with the idea of starting a website that's sort of half forum, half store. I have a general understanding of how the web works, but I haven't done anything web design-ey for about ten years, and even then I was definitely quite amateur. What would I need to do to get going?
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posted by Scientist
on Oct 5, 2011 -
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I'm a solo UI designer for an ad agency & I'm looking for good website or blogs that'll inspire me to make cool & effective user interfaces. Individual websites are cool & all ,but what I'm really looking for are sites like
TheFWA or
SmashingMagazine that curate cool designs.
Bonus points for sites that look at e-commerce websites.
Fellow web designers: Where do you get inspiration?
posted by cuando
on Jul 20, 2011 -
6 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
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 -
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Im looking for some advice and suggestions on the best way to structure a project.
My client has 4 products (SAS) and although they are related most people would only use one due to the specialist nature of each.
Currently only one of these products has a website and there is no main company website.
They are looking to introduce a main company website either incorporating each of the 4 products within it or having a separate company site and each product has its own separate site with the main company site acting as a knowledge base to establish them as an authority in field they work in.
Im wondering what the best approach would be from a usability point of view and an SEO points of view? I guess from an SEO point of view each product sitting on its own domain and being targeted to certain keyphrases might be more preferential than one site will all the content in?
Im wondering if anyone knows of any examples out there that handle this particularly well
posted by toocan
on Nov 19, 2010 -
3 answers
Getty Images wants $1200+ for use of a licensed image on a website I created nearly seven years ago and have done virtually no work on since. The design (a template including graphics) was handled by my brother in law, a professional web/UI designer.
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posted by yiftach
on Nov 14, 2010 -
16 answers
I need a web presence for articles and pictures, and a way for readers to comment on both. I know a lot about web servers, and squat/all about web design, and I don't have oodles of free time... help me pick a CMS.
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posted by Slap*Happy
on Oct 7, 2010 -
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Always desiring to experience living in Japan, I moved in the country from Canada almost a year ago on a working holiday visa, which will expire next month. My life here is stable so far, including a job at a company willing to sponsor me for a work visa. I want to live in Japan for a longer period, but the problem is I don't seem to meet the requirements for a visa. I am aware that getting married is the easiest way, but unfortunately, I do not have that possibility.
Is there anything I can do to stay and work in Japan longer?
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posted by remi
on Sep 15, 2010 -
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The small business I work for wants a new website. I'm in charge of finding the people to overhaul it. I've never done this before. I don't want to be the Client from Hell, but I also don't want my inexperience to accidentally screw over the company. Help! Details inside.
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posted by Laura Macbeth
on Aug 3, 2010 -
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A friend is considering going to the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for "Web Design and New Media" with the goal of becoming a web designer. Questions are (a) Is this school well-regarded by potential employers and (b) is it a good value for the tuition? They have zero interest in doing straight programming without design work involved.
posted by benzenedream
on May 13, 2010 -
17 answers
What does a web designer / web UX designer workflow look like in 2010?
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posted by pbh
on Apr 21, 2010 -
12 answers
Any examples of well-designed web sites in the industrial/engineering/manufacturing industry?
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posted by relucent
on Mar 22, 2010 -
4 answers
Please tell me about the current state of the art for blog and/or content management systems?
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posted by loquacious
on Mar 18, 2010 -
11 answers
I have two radically different blogs on the same domain. How can I design my root page to let visitors decide which one to go to?
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posted by lord_yo
on Feb 17, 2010 -
12 answers
I would like to see examples of simple,
well-designed websites run by individual scientists.
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posted by embrangled
on Feb 16, 2010 -
11 answers
Web-Design-Filter: I am looking for a free (or very cheap) and easy to use Content Management System that I can use to set up a private, dynamic blog, content and community space for multiple users. I would be willing to look at
Wordpress type software bases, but would like to integrate something of the functionality of lifestream systems like
Facebook and
Sweetcron/
Tumblr.
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posted by 0bvious
on Jan 6, 2010 -
7 answers
Are there any worthwhile professional associations for web developers/designers/etc?
posted by Jairus
on Nov 25, 2009 -
7 answers
I noticed today that text copied from articles on The Huffington Post appends the article URL when pasted and I'm wondering how it's done.
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posted by eyeballkid
on Sep 25, 2009 -
10 answers
Non-U.S. residents: Aside from language issues, what issues can U.S. web designers keep in mind to make their sites ideally usable for you?
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posted by kalapierson
on Jun 23, 2009 -
15 answers
What are the best resources for me to look into if I want to create websites that support user-created information?
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posted by ttyn
on Apr 19, 2009 -
2 answers
I really like the design of
this site. Is there a way to find out what CMS they're using? And what's that picture scroller in the middle?
posted by Finder
on Apr 16, 2009 -
9 answers
I owe an organization about $2000. We've discussed me paying this back by doing some work for them. The work they want is
web design project management. Can you help me figure out a realistic plan?
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posted by salvia
on Dec 6, 2008 -
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At my office we're running a number of different third-party web applications for things like blogs, ticket tracking, cms, and so forth. I would like to apply some consistent themes to these applications without having learn n different theming mechanisms. I'm hoping y'all can provide me with some suggestions.
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posted by larsks
on Nov 5, 2008 -
1 answer
I need to create a website for a fake invite-only torrent community to feature in a short movie centering around said community. What's the easiest way to set up a customizable tracker?
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posted by JMB1138
on Sep 29, 2008 -
2 answers
I'm looking for an objectively assessed survey of websites which use css-based positioning versus tables as layout.
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posted by jeremias
on Jun 12, 2008 -
8 answers
I have a duty to teach my fellow peers the basics of web design, and I intend to not bore them to death. Where do you recommend I start?
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posted by semi
on May 20, 2008 -
15 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?
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posted by josh.ev9
on Dec 22, 2007 -
9 answers
How to preload images dynamically in flash so that the image navigation doubles as the load bar. Like http://big.dk/projects/lim/lim.html
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posted by Raff
on Nov 14, 2007 -
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