howlermiller
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Portfolio Site too Gimmicky?
Honestly Ron, it does feel awfully gimmicky to me. I hate to tell you that, after the time you put into it, but you asked for help, so I'll try to give it. It doesn't really showcase web design to me. I don't understand what the rust…
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Bootstrap nav bar question
Try this: The div with the class of nav-collapse disappears at small screen sizes. The user button (the nav tag with the class of user) is inside of the nav-collapse div. If you move it outside of that div (maybe underneath the Brand Name), it shou…
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Clean theme for wordpress
What do you mean by clean? Underscores is my current favorite theme, and (CSS wise) it's about as clean as you can get: All it really has is a tiny CSS reset, and leaves all the rest of the styling up to you. Is that what you mean, or do you m…
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Feedback on my website?
@sorrentandrea The only real problem I see is with your name. It's a link, but the parts that say 'web design' and 'graphic design' are not links. I would either take away the link on your name (there are two other ways to g…
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Feedback on my website?
The hover effects seem a little inconsistent to me. Here's what I mean: On the front page alone, you have three different hover effects. All of those hover effects have the exact same meaning: "I'm a link! Click me!". However, no…
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Change font-style when user starts typing
@CrocoDillon Oh, you're right. That's my bad. Here's the link I should have posted: Styling the HTML5 placeholder. That article has a nice little graph showing exactly what you can use where. Looks like font-style doesn't work in…
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Change font-style when user starts typing
As far as styling the placeholder goes, if you use all of the different prefixes then browser compatibility is pretty good: CanIUse Here's an article on the four different prefixes: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/style-placeholder-text/ I…
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icon font for bullet points, tried li:before
They wouldn't both be applied to the same element. li:before would be on the list item, ul would be on the unordered list. So if you select the unordered list, you ought to be able to see that styling. Is that your problem?
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What am I not getting about the "height" property?
@bluprint1 It does. In the example that you linked to, the div with the id content_wrapper is indeed 1200px tall, as is the body with the min-height property. Try giving the #content_wrapper a background color or a border, that makes it easier to s…
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Dream to become a Web Designer/Developer, just don't know where to start? Please help!
I can't believe that nobody has mentioned Move the Web Forward yet. The website that was built specifically to answer that exact question. My best advice to you, Keisa, is to take it slowly. There's so much information out there, it'…
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Position absolute problem with z-index
+1 to @wolfcry911. That's a pretty clever solution. And for yet another way to do it with just CSS, you can take the overflow:hidden; off of the .item div and put it on the a tag. That way only the part that you're actually hiding is hidd…
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Simple alternative to Google Analytics?
@Rugg Yup, I've always just installed it on my server. Installation is easy, and it's never caused me any problems. My experience with it is limited, as I've only used it on very low-traffic sites. On a big site it will take more res…
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use of role="navigation"
@Paulie_D The question was how to use role="navigation" and why. I have found that article useful for clarifying how and why to use roles in the past, so I talked about it.
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Web Portfolio initial design critique/feedback
@Cyanoxide Sorry, I got a little carried away. :) If you need me to clear something up just let me know!
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use of role="navigation"
There's a nice little ARIA landmark roles cheatsheet on A11YProject. Doesn't give you a whole lot of info, but it's handy in a pinch.
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Web Portfolio initial design critique/feedback
Yeah, I'd definitely recommend preprocessing then. Here's a video and a article that are good for getting started. For the angle option, what I would do is set the angles up like this: .show-angles h2 { /* angle code here */ } And the …
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Simple alternative to Google Analytics?
+1 for Piwik. Jetpack is nice too, but it doesn't give you nearly as much info as most (it's nice and clean tho). Another one that I've seen (but haven't tried yet) is GoSquared. Their demo is gorgeous and really nice to use, so…
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Expanding elements outside the flow of the document
There you go. My pleasure!
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Web Portfolio initial design critique/feedback
Hey, that's pretty cool looking. I'd love to see it implemented. For the CSS question, I would definitely suggest that you put the angle code in its own file. One small caveat though: I'm a big Sass and Compass fan. I would have a bo…
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Expanding elements outside the flow of the document
Hey, looking good! You can bring the transition shading back with a pseudo element: http://cdpn.io/HbFpw Unfortunately, as cool as the pseudo element thing is, the transition only works in Firefox and Chrome > 25 (due to this bug). I figured it …
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Expanding elements outside the flow of the document
Yeah, that's a problem. You could do it with JS of course, but it would be really sweet to find a CSS solution. I'll keep this in mind, and maybe come up with something better (if you don't beat me to it). Glad I could help!
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Expanding elements outside the flow of the document
Hey Chris, This is as close as I can get: http://cdpn.io/GKIJp It's hackish, and the background image wobbles a bit (something I probably could have remedied if I was better at math), but it works. Rather than animating the height, I'm …
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Browser testing with Browsertap
Ooo, slick. I like how it looks so far. Thanks!
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CSS3 TV, using border-radius
Thanks! Yeah, you could probably make it a little nicer with some tweaking, but if you really want full control you'll have to use an image or SVG.
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Forrst Votes
Hey, I'd like to be part of the Forrst community too. If you would like to have me, here's my application: https://forrst.com/i/mGBC Thanks!
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Menu toggle for mobile site
Sorry, I don't have any way to test on a phone. This is a pretty big forum though, maybe someone else out there can help?
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Web Design Critique - Pixelated Font?
Neither of the fonts look pixelated at all on a Retina screen, but the title image does. :) Just a detail, but you might want to make that image higher res.
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creating rounded corners with CSS in iframe
So yeah, border radius works on Firefox. But not on Webkit. I've found a couple of bugs that look like they might be the problem. I also found a work around though, if you're willing to go to a little extra trouble. This StackOverflow ans…
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creating rounded corners with CSS in iframe
If you apply it directly to the iframe it works. Like this: .panelContent iframe { border-radius: 10px; } Edit: That appears to work in Firefox, but not Chrome. Looking into it.
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Menu toggle for mobile site
No problem! I'm glad to help. If you put the nav inside of the #navicon then it will toggle shut on click. You'll have to restyle the nav a bit, since it'll inherit styles from the navicon, but that shouldn't be a problem for yo…