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Best Standards and Guidelines for Graphic Designers
The basis for this weeks Answers reader discussion is essentially a chance to share what you feel are the best graphic design standards for an inhouse design agency.
What do you think? Is there set standards and guidelines for graphic designers in inhouse agencies? You can leave your comment below, or you can leave your answer on the original question on here: What are the best standards and guidelines for graphic designers who work for inhouse design agencies?
What are the standards and guidelines for graphic designers who work for inhouse design agencies?
This question was originally asked by an Unregistered User, and you will find the best answer below:
The Best Answer came from aPablo G:
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Using PHP Show Different Content to Visitors From a Specific Country
Our topic for today’s Design Reviver Answers news round-up is a question that was recently asked on PHP. And to be more specific the question was How Do I Show Different Content to Visitors From a Specific Country Using PHP?
Do you have an alternative solution, maybe a fresher technique? You can leave your comment below, or you can leave a your answer on the original question on Answers here
How Do I Show Different Content to Visitors From a Specific Country Using PHP?
This question was originally asked by a Devone, and you will find the best answer below:
The Best Answer came from an Unregistered User:
The Next Answer came from a Pablo G:
Unanswered Answers
That is now five weeks without any unanswered questions!!!
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The Future of Mobile Development
There was an interesting question posted in the last few week on Answers, discussing a web design topic which is very popular and certainly relevant within the design community. The question was “What Do You Think is the Future of Mobile Development?”. Questions like these deserve to be opened up to a wider readership, so, what do you think?
You can leave your comment below, or you can leave an even better your answer on the original question on Answers: What Do You Think is the Future of Mobile Development?
What Do You Think is the Future of Mobile Development?
This question was originally asked by a Themans, and you will find the best answer below:
The Best Answer came from an Andrew Miller:
The Next Answer came from a Steve Workman:
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That is now four weeks without any unanswered questions!!!
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Inline Style
One of the great things about our Design Reviver Answers is that it gives the novice or amateur web designer the opportunity to ask a basic question and have it answered by one of the many seasoned pro users that we have. It truly is a great site for learning and understanding, for designers of every level.
This weeks highlighted question, from an amateur designer, is: “What is Inline Style?”
You can leave your comment below, or you can leave an even better your answer on the original question on Answers: What is Inline Style?
What is Inline Style?
This question was originally asked by an unregistered user, and you will find the best answer below:
The Best Answer came from an unregistered user:
The Next Answer came from a Andrew Miller:
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That is now three weeks without ab unanswered questions!!!
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Difference Between Margin and Position:absolute
As web designers we may at times take for granted the knowledge and experience we have built up over the years, and its often easy to forget about, especially when you are just starting out, that there are many basic questions, that may not crop up very often, but still need to be asked and they certainly need to be answered.
And such a question was recently asked on Answers, and it was “Any difference between margin and position:absolute?”
You can leave your answers and thoughts below in the comment section, or you can leave your answer/opinion on the original question here, on Answers: Any difference between margin and position:absolute?.
Any difference between margin and position:absolute?
This question was originally asked by Khaoslive, and you will find the best answer below:
Best Answer from Neil Monroe:
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Should Long CSS Code be Divded into Several Files?
There are some debates within web design that have always split the community down the middle, everyone has there opinion about them, and both sides in there own way are correct for differing reasons. You know the kind of fiery debates – Fireworks v Photoshop and Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal, to name just a couple.
Another debate, perhaps not as fiery as the other two we have mentioned, was recently asked on Design Reviver Answers, that question was: “Should you separate into separate files long CSS code?“. There are two sides to this question and both were recently discussed. What is your opinion?
Are You For or Against Heavy Gradient Use in Design?
Not exactly an the age old question, but as we do every week, we like to offer a question, to the readers of Design reviver, that has been previously asked on Answers. This weeks question is: Are You a Heavy Gradient User or Against It?.
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Are You a Heavy Gradient User or Against It?
This question was originally asked by Rollback999, and you will find our favorite answers below:
Answer from Isti37:
Answer from Inksketch:
Answer from Unregistered User:
So, are you a heavy gradient user? You can leave an answer below in the comment section, or you can leave an answer here: Are You a Heavy Gradient User or Against It? on Answers.
Unanswered Answers
Can you help with this weeks unanswered questions?
- What’s a Reliable Way to Measure the Size of Web Requests and Responses?
- How Do I Create an Alert Box That Will Remember if the Visitor Has Previously Seen and Interacted With It?
- Why Should Anyone Use Conditional Stylesheets?
- How would you structure HTML form elements so that they can be translated into a PHP object without any problems?
- By selecting an element in drop down list how we can fetch the data?
- How Do You Handle Whitespace On Your Website?
Thanks again, firstly to everyone who asked a question, but most importantly thanks to everyone that took the time to offer always helpful and useful answers.
How Did You Get Into Web Design?
As we do every week, we like to offer a question to our readers that has been previously asked on Answers, we love to hear your thoughts and read your comments.
This weeks question is: How did you get into web design?.
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How did you get into web design?
This question was originally asked on Answers by Tim.
Answer from Chris:
I was working full time, doing some thankless job. At the same time I was starting up a blog, but I could not get past looking at all the Wordpress themes available, then installing them, and trying to tweak it just so. Then, I got laid off from work, and now I am taking a web design course. So I am just getting into it, still in school, but, I love it! I am 36 years old, and I can honestly say this is the first time I am going to actually enjoy what I will be doing for a career. Very exciting.
Answer from Just_linda:
I created a fan site for a filmmaker friend of mine and from there he hired me to do his official site which led to more exposure and more paying clients. Other than taking a few Photoshop classes I’m pretty much self-taught. The internet is ripe with information and all I can say is practice as much as you can, follow design blogs to stay current and learn how to utilize social media for optimum networking.
Answer from Audee:
It started when I wasn’t too happy with default Blogger theme. I wanted to create a blog theme that fits my need at that time, so I did few experiments to tweak it and it came to be my first blog (Graphic Identity Blog). I attempted to design another blog themes for friends and have been so interested to CSS. Delivering PSD to CSS-HTML always makes me excited. I love the challenge to discover solutions for any kind of web design project and how to make them look nice in all browser. My main interests at this moment in web designing are jQuery and Wordpress.
Answer from Heri Setiawan:
I went to vocational school majoring at Networking and Computer Tech. But i spent most of my time at school doing Need For Speed and Counter Strike. One day i got a flyer entitled Web Design Competition with big prizes. And i was starting to design my first website for the contest… And i was failed. But that’s what gave me a passion on website design.
Answer from Abhinav Sood:
A couple of years ago, I used to write at my “Inspirit Blog” where I wrote Free Blog Reviews ( www.inspiritblog.com ) and guided my readers on how to lay out their websites, and play with the design elements to generate maximum traffic and revenue and beautify their websites and blogs..
About an year after I started Inspirit, I was inducted into CSSJockey where Mohit Aneja ( web designer ) was about to start his freelance web design n development business.. So I helped him get started with CSSJockey and he got me deeper into xHTML / CSS.. Later, I learned to develop WordPress themes… Currently, I serve as the Lead Developer, Designer and Social Media Expert at CSSJockey ( www.cssjockey.com ) ..
I haven’t had any formal training in web design and development ever.. But I do wish to go to a school for web design and polish my skills further, after I finish my under-grad school in about 3 semesters from now..
Answer from Dan:
I’ve started it as a hobby – same as Darren but much earlier I guess. My first steps I made where in MS Paint, And then my teacher showed me Corel Draw and Paint Shop Pro. I was amazed by its possibilities. It was about 18 years ago. Now I’ve got pretty good skills in Photoshop/Dreamweaver. I can do stuff in Flash and Illustrator as well.
What about you, how did you get started in web design?
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Sketching or Straight To the Computer for Design Concepts? What’s Your Choice?
There are several methods for wire-framing,prototyping or sketching a web design project. Some may use a web based wire framing app or download one of the many powerful desktop applications available, and others, will simply use the ageless and always reliable pencil and paper. So, we now pass this question to you.
As we like to do every week, we highlight a question that had been previously asked on Answers, and offer our readers the chance to comment and share their thoughts.
So, here is this weeks question: Sketching or Straight To the Computer for Design Concepts? What’s Your Choice?.
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Sketching or Straight To the Computer for Design Concepts? What’s Your Choice?
This question was originally asked on Answers by Autobots.
Answer from Unregistered User:
Always sketch first. I find the computer can get in the way, and I can get stuck in a design rut if I move to the mac to early. Sketching helps keep the creativity flowing, and allows me to think up some organic ideas. I can decide what characteristics a typeface should have in a design without worrying about if I have it on the computer for example. Anything’s possible on paper.
Answer from Unregistered User:
Sketching every time! Its easier for me to get my ideas together with a pencil and pad, then translate them onscreen.
Answer from Handrus Nogueira:
It really depends on client needs. Every time a work need a bit more creativity sketching become necessary. In the rare cases where client know what he want’s or already have a good idea of how the page elements should look like I run directly into html, css (without PSD), the use of css frameworks like blueprint and bluetrip made it a lot easier and overall faster than create the design in photoshop first.
What do you think?
Unanswered Questions on Answers
Below you will find this weeks selection of unanswered questions, can you help?
- How Can I Make an Interactive Map of the World?
- Is It Possible to Place PHP Projects Into The Google App Engine So They Can Be Executable?
- What’s the Most Effective Way to Make Sure That My HTML/CSS Works On All Browsers?
- How Do I Fix Unwanted Caching in Firefox?
Thanks again, firstly to everyone who asked a question, but most importantly thanks to everyone that took the time to offer always helpful and useful answers.
What Project Management Software Do you Use and Why?
Regardless of the size of your design company, you will from time to time need a good project management application. The problem that you will have is not finding a good and reliable app (for the most part they all are in there own way), the problem will be finding one that meets the needs of the project you are working on and the client you are working with.
As we do every week, we like to highlight an important question from Answers. So, here is this weeks: What project management software do you use and why?. Whats yours?
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What project management software do you use and why?
This question was originally asked on Answers by Chad Tomkiss, and has so far received 12 answers.
Answer from Heri Setiawan:
I use TasMan Board. It’s simple yet powerful tool for managing my project.
Answer from Judy Varga:
You should try Ubidesk, its free.
Answer from Max:
I use basecamp and my own feedback/ticketing system. Some projects don’t require management other than to-do lists or a4 pages of scribbles. Each project for us is different, my advice is to do what feels best. If you want to manage a lot of project then Basecamp is a good one and they have a free version where you can try it out with a single project.
Answer from Emiel:
I think Thymer (www.thymer.com) is relatively new but is very easy and flexible. No overkill in features and stuff, just basic clear pm-tools.
Answer from John Swindells:
I use a pretty old version (2004) of Copper. As a PHP developer it’s easy for me to customise it, but there are lots of pretty basic features that are missing.
Basecamp has recommended previously, but from what Tom Longo says I think Tickspot sounds good for our small team.
Answer from Tom Longo:
Tickspot for time tracking because it’s easy with good support for dashboard widgets, though a little on the expensive side if you have a lot of projects at a time. Tickspot seems to be good for smaller teams whereas basecamp is more powerful and can a lot more, but might be overkill for on individual or very small team.
For personal project management I use Things on on Mac as I find it a simple and flexible way to manage tasks.
Answer from Cy Klassen:
You should try Goplan (they have a free plan). I have used it for the past couple projects and I am impressed with every update. Its very easy but powerful app. For me, they hit the nail on the head for project management. Also, awesome support team.
Answer from Ryan Smith:
I use Subernova. The main reasons for using it are:
- it has a desktop app
- a iphone app
- an online app
- consistently updated with new features
- your clients can have their own login to see their projects
- really nice user interface – very easy to use……
- There tonnes more, to many to list.
Most people will say BaseCamp does these things, but, BaceCamp starts at $24 per month, Subernova cost $149 per year. BaseCamp has limits to how many projects you can have at one time (unless you chose a higher price plan). Subernova doesn’t have a limit.
In saying all that, if I had the money I would probably use BaseCamp. Haha. BaseCamp has a lot more little features that make it better. I can see it being a great tool in a big agency.
They great thing is they both have a 30 day free trial!
Unanswered Questions on Answers
Below you will find this weeks selection of unanswered questions, can you help?
- How Can I Import SQL With PHP?
- Do You Kill Off Inactive PHP Sessions or “Upgrade” Existing Ones?
- How Would I Send an XML File With POST and Receive in PHP?
- Does Anyone Know of Good iPad Apps for Designers or Developers?
- How to make a networked paint program in actionscript 3.0, where two users can work simultaneously?
- How Can I Have My Users Login Through Facebook or Twitter on My Website?
Thanks again, firstly to everyone who asked a question, but most importantly thanks to everyone that took the time to offer always helpful and useful answers.