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Please recommend basic guides for making a website look good, so I can make my hobby sites look less terrible - ideally something like, "do these five steps to make your site look better than plain Bootstrap." [more inside]
posted by kristi on Mar 2, 2021 - 11 answers

We need to hire someone to help transform HTML/MARKDOWN text into DOCX, while following finicky instructions. Also: script the process (or at least a lot of it). But we're not sure exactly what type of worker to look for. [more inside]
posted by Quisp Lover on Mar 22, 2016 - 5 answers

Is it possible to make a blog layout like this using Tumblr? Thanks in advance
posted by FuckingAwesome on Sep 26, 2014 - 2 answers

What is the best resource on layouts in webpages, specifically with the use of CSS and other web technologies? This has always been something that's been tricky for me and I'm wondering if there's something out there that really sums it up well.
posted by antgly on Aug 11, 2014 - 2 answers

Is it possible to make a blog layout like this using Tumblr? Thanks in advance
posted by FuckingAwesome on Jul 24, 2014 - 2 answers

This weekend I'm setting up a website for an academic event. I'd like the homepage of the site to have large, clickable progress bars that display the number of posts for each of the subpages (News & Announcements, Blog, Events, etc.). As more posts are added to each of the subpages (posts would likely be sorted and displayed by category and tag), its respective progress bar takes up more screen real estate and the tally count listed on/near it increases. Basically, I want the homepage to look like a giant, dynamic bar chart. Is there a freeware (or cheap) template, widget or piece of code that allows me to do this? [more inside]
posted by iamkimiam on Sep 15, 2011 - 7 answers

Using a Mako template and CSS, I need to generate a m x n grid display from a variable length list of elements. [more inside]
posted by zippy on May 22, 2009 - 6 answers

What is your favorite method to get <div style="width:400px;height:300px;"> to be in the center of a page (both horizontally and vertically)? Preferably CSS rather than tables.
posted by jgunsch on May 17, 2009 - 4 answers

CSSFilter: I am building a wordpress site that uses a basic two column layout with floating div elements inside a fixed-width div . Any clues why Safari and Chrome appear to be ignoring the fixed-width container div allowing the interior elements to float away to the edges of the browser? Explorer and Firefox aren't doing this. [more inside]
posted by geos on Feb 10, 2009 - 16 answers

Help a design-impaired mind finish his dream project. [more inside]
posted by howiamdifferent on Nov 19, 2007 - 9 answers

In legacy code land, noone can hear you scream. I'm a web developer and I need a standalone, drop in wysiwyg html editor, preferably something all in JS (like Dojo's Rich Text Editor, but for actual layout with tables etc.) [more inside]
posted by judge.mentok.the.mindtaker on Sep 4, 2007 - 11 answers

HTML/CSS-Filter: Why won't my page keep its width properly? One row keeps expanding over all the others. [more inside]
posted by taita_cakes on Jun 18, 2006 - 12 answers

Elegant design of ~500 multiple select elements in HTML? Am new to this whole presentation thing... [more inside]
posted by bastionofsanity on Jun 2, 2006 - 10 answers

What website layouts work best for a site selling some books and/or software? Ideas? Examples? What about NOT-recommended ideas and examples? [more inside]
posted by zek on May 15, 2006 - 5 answers

HTML tricky layout filter: The page I'm developing is doing some unsuspected things: what good advanced HTML forums do you use? [more inside]
posted by jwhittlestone on Apr 4, 2006 - 7 answers

How do I create HTML that emulates a word processor's "headers and footers" feature? I need to create some HTML (probably via a XSL transform) that has header and footer blocks that contain certain pieces of repeated dynamic information including total number of pages, current page, etc. [more inside]
posted by schwa on Oct 1, 2005 - 9 answers