I have mostly completed a website design for a small company - logo, colors, info architecture - but the visual effect of all the elements together isn't.. quite.. "there" yet. How would I go about finding a Web designer who could improve the design "the rest of the way"?
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posted by mark7570
on May 17, 2013 -
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I have recently taken charge of
an old webpage that is a bit out of date on a university server. I am primarily familiar with Google Sites and Wordpress, where there's a CMS editor, but here it's just an ftp site with raw index files that require Spry to run. What do I need to edit it? Would it be relatively easy to create a redirect to a site that I control running a CMS I understand? How do I keep that from ruining all the old backlinks?
posted by anotherpanacea
on May 11, 2013 -
8 answers
I'm trying to find an example website to send to my web developer of "floating" text. I'm sure there's a better name for what I'm trying to describe. Basically, I literally mean that different lines of a short paragraph are "floating" in different directions and different fonts over an image.
Does this make sense? Can someone think of better words to describe? Best yet, can someone link to a site that has similar text?
Thank you in advance!
posted by jefficator
on May 8, 2013 -
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Some time in the last year (maybe two years, at most) I saw a simple, modern site that recommended a single device in multiple categories of hardware (monitors, laptops, vacuum cleaners, electric toothbrushes, etc., etc.). The home page was a grid of the categories, and then you clicked through to ~2 paragraphs explaining why the particular device was so great. I think in some categories there were "budget" and "money is no object" recommendations, but the basic idea was to do your thinking for you, and tell you exactly what model to buy. Does anyone know what site I'm thinking of?
posted by caek
on Apr 27, 2013 -
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How do I approach someone about buying their domain name, and then what do I do if they agree?
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posted by cmoj
on Apr 26, 2013 -
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Today, one page of our website experienced a 1 h surge: about 600 unique visitors landed there after doing a highly specific search on Google. The question was relevant and our (non-commercial) site ranks 1rst for this question, so while unusual this can be explained except for one thing: all those visitors were using the Opera Mini browser on a mobile device connected to a service provider that Google Analytics calls "Opera software asa". Also, the surge peaked at 11 am GMT+1 and then was basically over (no tail). Any idea of what happened?
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posted by elgilito
on Apr 25, 2013 -
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What's the best website for finding inexpensive car rental? Emphasis on last minute bookings (I'm traveling in two days).
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posted by maryr
on Apr 24, 2013 -
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Trying to figure out what gives with a Google Analytics anomaly for the website I manage. In essence, GA reports that the average time mobile users spent on a page increased tenfold in the last month.
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posted by jrchaplin
on Apr 19, 2013 -
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A month or two ago I saw a video someone had made of an exchange they had with a customer at work. The video had two cutesy CGI dog-like animals talking with very basic gestures and motions. It googled the watermark in the corner of the video and it took me to the site the guy had used to create the video. The name was four letters long but it wasn't a real word. There were multiple themes or scenes you could select, enter dialog, etc. Most of the themes were very cutesy- animals, flowers, etc. The speech seemed to be rendered by some typical voice-to-text software as it was very flat with no inflection. Overall it was a pretty easy to use website.
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posted by _DB_
on Apr 16, 2013 -
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Please help me pick a name and domain for our website/app. We're a private network for parents to upload, backup and share their kids' pictures.
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posted by signal
on Apr 14, 2013 -
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Please tell me of your favorite art/design/architecture blogs, pages, and websites —
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posted by heyho
on Apr 13, 2013 -
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I have been tasked with finding a web solution for a volunteer group associated with a university.
There are already pages on one of the departments' websites, however, it will be months before any changes can be made to that as it's under the rule of a CMS which is about to be migrated and to which we won't be able to really do anything until November. We want all the usual stuff like a blog and a Twitter widget and latest news and yadda yadda, but anything we add - and possibly anything we remove - would have to wait till November if we use the existing hosting arrangement. This is why I want to stick up another web infrastructure for us somewhere else, probably not hosted by the university.
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posted by tel3path
on Apr 11, 2013 -
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I'm finally taking the plunge and starting a business. We want to get a website up and running, but I've never really done anything like this. Can you recommend where to go, what to do, and all that stuff?
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posted by Ghidorah
on Apr 9, 2013 -
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I have a computer science degree so I know (or can learn) the technicalities of web programming, serving a site, etc. I'm looking for high level advice. If someone asked you to make them a business website today, how would you go about it?
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posted by htid
on Apr 5, 2013 -
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I'm looking for a recipe organiser where I can write my own recipes and clip recipes from the web. I can google with the best of them, and I can see there are lots of sites that can potentially do what I need, but I don't want to create a gazillion accounts for testing, so please give me your tried and true recommendations. Details inside :
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posted by snakeling
on Apr 4, 2013 -
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I want an awesome website and I have wireframed the whole thing. I am planning on using the design contest process on
99designs and I have found an amazing copywriter on
Odesk. Who should do their part of the work first?
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posted by gravitypanda
on Mar 27, 2013 -
7 answers
Which websites list Kindle-compatible books which are free for a limited time?
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posted by lea724
on Mar 20, 2013 -
18 answers
I want to have a website to sell the neat stuff I make. In my mind I can see exactly what I want it to look like after having spent an absurd amount of time looking at other websites.
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posted by gravitypanda
on Mar 18, 2013 -
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The website is a collection of images, and one images leads to the next, in an associative way. Like, one composition suggests the next image, like a group of colorful balloons suggests a pile of colorful trash which then suggests a crowd of people, etc., and it seems to go on endlessly.
posted by Jason and Laszlo
on Mar 15, 2013 -
5 answers
I need to write a privacy policy for my commercial website. There are a number of online tools for this, I am looking for specific recommendations for such a tool or links to good boilerplate. The site is primarily providing information about a product (iPhone app). It does not collect any information but does have a contact form.
posted by cosmac
on Mar 6, 2013 -
3 answers
A website that uses Buffetology to assess the "real" value of stocks
Years ago, I remember stumbling across a website that took the methods of a book called Buffettology (written by an ex-member of the Buffett family) and allowed you to evaluate any type of stock using the techniques of that book. Basically, you input a stock and it did a bunch of calculations according to the formulas provided in that book and gave you a list of bunch values. I am still looking for this website and wondering if anybody has ever come across it. To give an example, you type in a stock's name and some information about the stock and it would give you an output in csv format about all the values that stock might have. Or you could have downloaded it to EXCEL. If you don't know of this particular website, do you know of anything similar? Thanks
posted by RapcityinBlue
on Mar 5, 2013 -
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I am advising on the creation of a web portal for the sales of homes. One of the concerns is that buyer and seller will find each other via the site but then carry out the purchase on their own, cutting the site out of a potential "intermediary" fee.
Does anybody have any ideas / experience on how this can be addressed?
posted by BigBrownBear
on Mar 3, 2013 -
5 answers
I recall being directed to a site/blog which had short anecdotes, submitted by users, about bad experiences with gynos/doctors/nurses, often focussing on hospitals/childbirth etc. A similar interface to fmylife.com
On a specific day of the week they showcased the opposite, good experiences and health professionals who went out of their way to provide care.
Does anyone know which site this is? I think I may have even found it through AskMeFi, but a search turned up nothing. Thanks.
posted by Youremyworld
on Feb 25, 2013 -
3 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 -
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For a research project, we’re asking ~24 high school and college students to log their experiences with homework by sending us text messages and photos over the course of about two weeks. Is there a site where they can send those messages so that we could see them from a computer? There are particular features we’re seeking... What comes closest to satisfying them?
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posted by daisyace
on Feb 19, 2013 -
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Tell me what you know about building a Wordpress-based site in English, but with Chinese-language content. Or any other language, really, if it applies to this situation.
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posted by cilantro
on Feb 5, 2013 -
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I'm an American who loves British television but am tired of discovering shows only after they have finished. Is there a UK-centric equivalent of
The A.V. Club—i.e., a site that covers currently airing British television series?
posted by kaisemic
on Feb 3, 2013 -
3 answers
I am trying to remember a website I vaguely remember. It was like lookbook.nu but everyone had their height/weight/body shape in their profile, so you could search for fashionable style posts/outfit of the days with people with a similar body type to you?
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posted by Huck
on Feb 1, 2013 -
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Where can I buy a fully functional working website template for my business with all rights.
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posted by pakora1
on Feb 1, 2013 -
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Is there a tool that I can use to test my website's various pages across multiple platforms (different mobile devices, different browsers etc) without having to, you know, manually get hold of each mobile device and open up each browser and test it?
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posted by HopStopDon'tShop
on Jan 18, 2013 -
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Occasionally I will run across a webpage that has some or all of the text
look like this. It's all bunched up and completely illegible. What gives?
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posted by zardoz
on Jan 17, 2013 -
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I'm creating a simple website. It will be a single page with a photograph and a block of text. I will need to update it with a new photograph and a new block of text at a certain time each day, say midnight. I anticipate being able to do this manually most of the time, but would like an option to somehow pre-load at least one photo and text block and have the site automatically update if needed. It would also be great to have multiple days' worth ready to go without human intervention.
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posted by The Deej
on Jan 17, 2013 -
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I have an adult website so I can't submit articles to normal article directories and get a link back for SEO. Is there a list of adult article directories where I can submit articles or even short stories and include a link in the article or bio?
posted by Bacillus
on Jan 15, 2013 -
1 answer
Sometimes, web sites go down. Our employees and clients are pretty good at noticing downtime, messaging me, and then I open a ticket with the hosting company or programmer and get it resolved. I am looking for some kind of downtime warning system.
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posted by banished
on Jan 15, 2013 -
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Sometimes, I am a front-end web developer. Frequently, I meet new people at work who want to turn really complicated Excel documents into dazzlingly interactive web applications.
Besides
Excel's "Save to Web App" or "Save to SharePoint" features, such people ask if I can tap into an industry to support this -- perhaps scads of agencies and web-based or downloadable tools that make "websites" or at least customizable, interactive reports from Excel spreadsheets, data, and calculations.
I'm yet to find this an abundance of examples of this. Are there? If so, what do you call them?
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posted by metajc
on Jan 9, 2013 -
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Where is the coldest (or hottest) place on earth right now? I'm looking for a dynamic website so that I can see on a daily basis the places on earth with the most extreme temperatures.
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posted by YukonQuirm
on Dec 20, 2012 -
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I work at a local entertainment company that desperately needs a new website. The owner wants to pay next to nothing for a new site i
n this vein. Is there any possibility a talented student might be willing to design a site like this for a very limited rate and what's the bare minimum we could expect to charge? Also, how could I find such a designer?
posted by timsneezed
on Dec 11, 2012 -
8 answers
White-hat job that may require a black-hat tool: I write for a WordPress based group blog. I'd like to copy the posts I've written for the last year or so onto my own blog (another WordPress installation). Difficulty: can't install plug-ins to the group blog, and no Import/Export feature available. More inside.
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posted by chrisinseoul
on Dec 10, 2012 -
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in my mind i envision a website where you put your departing airport and the site pulls together current last-minutes deals to all sorts of destinations
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posted by allthingsconsidered
on Dec 9, 2012 -
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Building (and purchasing) a website for a friend's company in Africa - am I legally responsible if his company gets sued for something unrelated to the site?
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posted by cavs33
on Dec 7, 2012 -
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