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Subjunctive posted:Duh, yes, img has no descendants. b:before { content: "\200c"; } works! Thanks!
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Lumpy posted:Here's mine: you probably shouldn't. I like to say inputs are the electrical outlets of web design. An architect can design the craziest building, but people are going to expect to see the same normal thing when they go to plug in a lamp. This is also why I asked about returning inputs (specifically selects) to their default appearance.
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Hope this is the right place to ask. I have a friend who is looking for a particular sort of CMS. Here's the rundown: He sells customized products to various (and numerous) clients. They each have their own "products," but they always reorder the same ones. As a made-up example, business cards: everyone has their own cards, but they reorder the same ones each time. What he wants to be able to do is have a site that clients can log in to that will show them their products and theirs only, and let them order and send both him and the client an order email (it doesn't have to process payment or anything - he wants to do that manually - it just needs to tell him "GoonCo wants 2 more orders of their custom right-angle dildos" or the like). Seems like a simple spin on some standard ecommerce software but I can't find anything like it anywhere. I might be using the wrong search terms since I don't know exactly what to call this.
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How do I show/hide something without having the browser reinterpret the width of the containing element? I've got a table that's sortable by each of its <th> headings, and the currently selected heading displays a little bootstrap glyphicon to signify. When I change to sort by a different heading, the whole table gets shimmied a little because of the increase in size to the newly selected heading and decrease in size of the old one. I guess I'd like the table's size to be fixed as if all of the icons were present.
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Newf posted:How do I show/hide something without having the browser reinterpret the width of the containing element? Do you just want a black space where the glyphicon would be? If so, can you do visibility:hidden instead of display:none?
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The Merkinman posted:Do you just want a black space where the glyphicon would be? If so, can you do visibility:hidden instead of display:none? That's exactly what I wanted. Thanks 
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Sep 16, 2014 16:47
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Newf posted:That's exactly what I wanted. Thanks Oh, hey, Colin, what's up.
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Oggumogoggum posted:Oh, hey, Colin, what's up. First page of post history includes Morrowind, lots of computers, and Ottawa. I am stumped. (Unless maybe my avatar text tipped you off?) e: Oh, I have it now. To answer your question, not much. Hi. Newf fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Sep 16, 2014 |
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What's the goto for easy plug in play analytics / stats tracking for startups these days? I plan to play with New Relic a bit for optimization, but what should I use in long term for tracking page views etc.?
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Ahz posted:What's the goto for easy plug in play analytics / stats tracking for startups these days? I plan to play with New Relic a bit for optimization, but what should I use in long term for tracking page views etc.? Google Analytics is pretty sweet, I particularly like the "Real Time" views
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This is going to sound retarded as poo poo, but here it goes. We currently have a Wordpress website. It's been great so far and we like it. However, we want to improve on a lot of the external content that the site relies on. Right now everything is using iframes and it's terrible. We can't customize the styles and the content isn't responsive. All of this external content can instead be pulled in via an API which would allow us to style it however we wanted. The problem is Wordpress. I don't really want to create a new template in Wordpress because I still want the page to be editable via the WYSIWYG box by the mouth breathers here that normally update the website. I've played around with creating our own shortcodes which mostly works but then this means if I want to implement caching or easy session/cookie management, I have to re-create the wheel and do it all via this one page shortcode script. That, and ajax isn't really viable. My solution is that I want to install Laravel and Wordpress in the same site where Wordpress would sit at / and Laravel would sit at /api/ so that I can do ajax requests to /api/markets, /api/weather, /api/news, etc. and still have the comfort of coding the custom api poo poo in an organized manor with Laravel. It's either that, or I install Laravel in a subdomain (api.example.com) and then setup a shortcode with attributes that then does a curl to api.example.com that returns an iframe that I've styled and allowed to be responsive. This method, however, has the problem of same-origin policy and I won't be able to request via ajax. However, since it's an iframe, I might be able to now get away without ajax. Is this insane? Is there a better way? kiwid fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Sep 16, 2014 |
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I'm not a heavy developer, but why not have a custom templates that embed whatever you need to and still have people use the WYSIWYG? If it's a matter of the content being split by your embeds, you can just use custom fields to have multiple text areas in the WYSIWYG interface.
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The Dave posted:I'm not a heavy developer, but why not have a custom templates that embed whatever you need to and still have people use the WYSIWYG? If it's a matter of the content being split by your embeds, you can just use custom fields to have multiple text areas in the WYSIWYG interface. The issue here is that I'd have to re-create a caching system and I'd have to manage cookies and/or session data. That alone isn't that big of deal as it's fairly easy to do. However, one of the APIs gives us market data for several different commodities. I need a user to be able to select from a drop down box a commodity they want market data for and it delivers it via an ajax request and saves a cookie so the next time they visit, they don't have to continuously choose the commodity. I'm leaning towards doing the separate domain for the api's now and just doing iframes. That way I can refresh the market data without a user reloading the page and I can manage separate session data. Unless this is a bad idea? kiwid fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Sep 16, 2014 |
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Sep 16, 2014 20:43
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What are the recommendations for HTTPS'ing up a site these days? Of course I plan to SSL up the auth and purchase areas of my site, but should I bother with the actual back-end user app and ssl?
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Wondering if anyone can help me out with this. Website works as intended in Chrome and Safari but for some reason Firefox just refuses to apply the stylesheet. test1.grant-priest.com My skill level - very low Heres the source code, have validated it with no errors. jsfiddle.net/mkda3ugy/ Any ideas? OASE fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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Sep 17, 2014 14:57
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change your CSS links in the head to this formatcode:
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OASE posted:Edit: Sorted. I still cannot fathom why people in a help forum edit their posts to remove their questions. Or don't actually post what their solution was....
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Lumpy posted:I still cannot fathom why people in a help forum edit their posts to remove their questions. Or don't actually post what their solution was.... Agreed, it is bad form! Should be probatable in CoC.
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Yer that was stupid, to be honest i had found the issue before i realised someone had replied and thought it was too trivial to be worth leaving around. Editted back to the original post. Thanks streetlamp.
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anyone good with Compass, specifically transitions? How come this works: code:code:Other Compass mixins work fine.
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fuf posted:anyone good with Compass, specifically transitions? a) Check out the compiled CSS. b) Use Autoprefixer and forget about Compass' prefixing mixins.
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I'm having a heck of a time wrestling with this table. What I want is for there two be two cells with scrollbars on each. The table should confine itself to the full page. The body of the page has a 10px black border. However as you can see the table pushes itself beyond the bottom of the body. How to fix? code:code:
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box-sizing: border-box? Set 100% height on the html element?
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I'm starting to feel like the front page of my website (lawyerist.com) is a big mess. The problem is we need to showcase several different streams of content, all in a fairly narrow (640px) main column. There are articles (longer posts, once a day), notes (quick posts, several a day), Q&A posts from our forum, and the most popular post in each of our categories. I'd welcome ideas for improving the design (and making it less fragmented), or just links to websites that you think do a good job organizing different streams of content on one page.
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I think a quick way to tidy it up would be to leverage the tabbed design your Popular Posts section 'establishes' by moving all your other sections up into a tabbed section next to your Articles. It would give your other sections more visibility by rescuing their headers from below the fold, increase the available size for them as they could then occupy the same space as Articles without bloating it, and you already have the tab-style graphics done on their headers.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Anyone know any good tutorials for styling forms? Specifically text input areas. pre:.content {
background: #bbb;
textarea {
background: #ddd;
color: #666;
border-radius: 3px;
border: 1px solid #bbb;
&:focus {
background: #fff;
color: #333;
border: 1px solid #6698a9;
}
}
}
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samglover posted:I'm starting to feel like the front page of my website (lawyerist.com) is a big mess. It's very similar to another messy site: http://www.cnet.com
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jackpot posted:
Yes, yes they do.
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samglover posted:I'm starting to feel like the front page of my website (lawyerist.com) is a big mess. The problem is we need to showcase several different streams of content, all in a fairly narrow (640px) main column. There are articles (longer posts, once a day), notes (quick posts, several a day), Q&A posts from our forum, and the most popular post in each of our categories. Your content is scattered across sidebars and main content areas and I can't really figure out why. You have five different visual styles for displaying posts. There is little to no breathing room anywhere on the page. The Verge-like text over image treatment at the top is poorly executed because you have text on top of complicated images with text in them (which feels cluttered and claustrophobic). And after those posts, there's no obvious hierarchy for the rest of the content on the the page. It's not my favorite site in the world, but I've always thought Wired does an okay job of delivering a large amount of content in a relatively easy to use format. The biggest things they're doing that you're not is A) using a consistent treatment for displaying posts and B) creating a very obvious hierarchy. Go and wireframe the page and start over, imo, and when you think you need 20px of margins, give yourself 40. 
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Are analytics available? Because 960 is a really small resolution at this point to design for unless it represents a significant portion of your audience.
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jackpot posted:I'm not sure what you mean by styled versus normal; how badly are people designing forms these days, that they don't even look like form elements anymore? I couldn't find an example in a few minutes of searching, but I see crap like this way too often these days. Sure it looks fancy, but it always fails the Would Your Mom Know How To Use It test.
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kedo posted:Your content is scattered across sidebars and main content areas and I can't really figure out why. You have five different visual styles for displaying posts. There is little to no breathing room anywhere on the page. The Verge-like text over image treatment at the top is poorly executed because you have text on top of complicated images with text in them (which feels cluttered and claustrophobic). And after those posts, there's no obvious hierarchy for the rest of the content on the the page. That's pretty much how I'm feeling. I added a blur effect to those images for now, which definitely helps. But maybe I do need to go back and re-think the front page as a whole. The Dave posted:Are analytics available? Because 960 is a really small resolution at this point to design for unless it represents a significant portion of your audience. It's a site for lawyers, so 10–15% of our visitors are still using 1024x768 screens. I could give myself a bit more room, but if I leave room for padding, 960 is about right. With a 300px sidebar for our ads, plus some padding, that leaves about 640px for the content column. The problem, of course, is that eliminates most horizontal layout options. We're considering taking the sidebar off of the front page, but that would take away a good chunk of ad revenue.
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Have you tried A/B testing putting just one 300x250 there and seeing if it actually has that much of a revenue impact versus the ginormous ad combo? atleast you could get to 100% width quicker.
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samglover posted:It's a site for lawyers, so 10–15% of our visitors are still using 1024x768 screens. I could give myself a bit more room, but if I leave room for padding, 960 is about right. With a 300px sidebar for our ads, plus some padding, that leaves about 640px for the content column. The problem, of course, is that eliminates most horizontal layout options. We're considering taking the sidebar off of the front page, but that would take away a good chunk of ad revenue. Would you be able to do something like this? Could buy you some more horizontal space. code:
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kedo posted:I couldn't find an example in a few minutes of searching, but I see crap like this way too often these days. Sure it looks fancy, but it always fails the Would Your Mom Know How To Use It test.
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jackpot posted:When I was making my post I almost added "Except for those sites with inputs you can't see," but I couldn't find any examples so I didn't. Yeah, those are terrible and shouldn't exist. Hiding file inputs is relatively common.
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Subjunctive posted:Hiding file inputs is relatively common.
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I'm ready to deploy, are there any good guides on SEO basics I should look at? I'm not looking to game the system, but just put some good fundamentals in. Also, any good guides on deployment checklists? I'm using Heroku /S3 if that helps.
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Not sure if web development is necessarily the place to ask about this but hopefully some people itt have run into this problem: My work has a growing collection of RESTful webservices implemented to try and move towards some kind of SOA. A recurring problem we run into follows this pattern: -Hey, service X returned a 500 in prod at 11:40 yesterday! -That's weird. I see a uniqueness constraint violation in the logs. What data did you send in? -We don't know. Don't you log that? Basically, our security team prevents us from blanket-logging all requests at the server level (including POST request bodies, etc.). They're afraid that this will result in PID & PII getting written to a logfile somewhere, which is a legitimate concern for the kinds of services we run. I presume it could also result in us getting sued because it writes a credit card number somewhere or something. Does anyone have an inspired solution to this problem that doesn't involve railroading security and could be used across multiple webservices undergoing rapid development? For instance, I could create a configurable logger in our service archetype that captured all request data but then I'd have to be concerned about some random developer not actually configuring it when they add their new /payments API. My gut feeling is that the easiest fix is to just to have the servers log all service traffic using a protected logfile with limited access to make auditors happy. However I have no clue if this is actually "a thing people do" and at the end of the day developers need access to it for debugging prod issues so I'm not sure what that limited access would actually mean in practice...
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