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kedo posted:Can anyone recommend a form system similar to Gravity Forms that doesn't require WordPress to function? I have a legacy client who needs a form with an administrative backend attached, but they have an ancient static site. My buddy really loves to use Wufoo forms.
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My assumption is you have zero access to unbounce? Could you get it from your client and access their documentation?
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May 23, 2014 20:16
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I feel like so far all the examples of not using them are examples of people not realizing they shouldn't using them. I don't think it's a black and white solution. Like that zeebox example is just garbage, of course you don't move to a sidebar navigation like that when you only have 4 navigation items. I actually preferred the facebook app without the tab bar. I just really don't like this jump for hating it so quickly with poor insights into the analytics. We moved to hambuger + slideout on the awful iOS app and sort of fell into this. A portion of people didn't like it because with the tab bar they could use it in a way to browse to threads at once, even though that wasn't the intention. We also planned on having all the site features in the bar, so when we launched and it still only had 4 navigation items, it was a little silly. I still prefer using it and not having the tab bar take up real estate.
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May 27, 2014 16:58
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Yeah are you using developer tools / firebug to check out where the rule is exactly coming from?
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Jun 13, 2014 15:15
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We just had that conversation at work, and the one front end guy's opinion was that with the way modern browsers handle thing, it's perfectly fine to just stick with PXs. Centripetal Horse posted:I know it's clashy and simplistic, but, again, is the information laid out fairly intuitively I'm not sure it is, moving those stats to the sidebar decouples it mentally (to me) from the main area. The old design also lets me know that I did something with the whole "You selected..." part and stats. With the new design I just have a hard time figuring out what's going on. And yes, you definitely do not have an eye for design. It's okay though! Modern design is all about decluttering and getting down to the basics as much as possible, while still providing personality. So your site is actually over-designed. The colors you are picking are really harsh, and then on top of that you're using them as background colors, which really punch you in the face. There are tons of websites where you can pick out color pallets if you're not a designer. Your sight could look a lot better though by just stripping things away and giving things room to breathe. I can tell you're used to designing for small resolutions, but you can safely design at ridiculous sizes now, the most common resolution is actually 1366x768. However you should also design to what you analytics tells you about your userbase. So just going with removing background colors and being super simple, you can do this with your site, which while plain, isn't visually offensive: 
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Jun 14, 2014 15:38
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Yeah in a nut shell frameworks, front end or back end, provide shortcuts to get what you want instead of recreating the wheel. Or for front end, as I say, it's so engineers can actually make good looking websites 
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Jun 17, 2014 12:26
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Yeah that's fair. The default bootstrap blue button haunts my dreams.
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Jun 17, 2014 13:21
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Do you have access to any analytics? Nothing's better than seeing IE as a small fraction of users.
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Jun 19, 2014 12:02
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IMO unless you're getting paid extra for the time it takes, ditch it.
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Jun 19, 2014 12:39
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Yeah I've used respond.js with bootstrap to solve those headaches easily.
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Jun 29, 2014 17:52
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jackpot posted:Thanks! If you're really worried and there's no benefit to people finding your site organically, I'd suggest just password protecting it and including the credentials on your resume / where ever you share it.
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Jul 20, 2014 14:33
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). Is there a way to block that site from being viewed by anyone on your office network? You wouldn't want to block anyone more than that, obviously - just the occasional curious coworkers who you'd rather not know about it (and obviously this doesn't stop anyone from just picking up their phone and going there, or looking me up at home - that's fine). I know I can use the htaccess file to block a specific IP, but can I block a range of IPs that would represent my company network? Or am I just showing how little I know about all this?
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Ummm can you post some of these articles saying not to make a responsive site? Are they offering a different solution for mobile?
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Jul 28, 2014 13:02
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Ah okay. So the first article is basically that a lot of retailers are making poo poo responsive solutions that are bloating page load. The second is the responsive vs. dedicated mobile site debate which is usually (IMO) a YMMV thing depending on what you're serving.
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Jul 28, 2014 13:54
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Newf posted:I have a (probably easy) bootstrappish design question. I've got a list of Things that I'd like to display for the user, and also I'd like to provide the option to add a new Thing. Right now it looks like this, with 'New Portfolio' being the active item (eg, somewhere else on the screen the user is able to edit / view this item). This is a bootstrap list-group, and the top is just a regular button. It looks goony as hell but I can't figure out what makes sense. Should I make the entire top row a colored button? Should I just center the button that's there? Should I break the button out of the list-group and have it above or below? This problem is solved in about a billion different webpages but for some reason I can't locate any right now. If I'm getting this correct, this is like an option select, the are currently in "New Portfolio", and you want to support creating a new portfolio as an option? This could be alleviated by not having the active item also looking so much like a button. I feel like if "Add New portfolio" was maybe just blue text, and "New Portfolio" was just highlighted by a light grey, it would better convey the message.
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Jul 28, 2014 19:26
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For one project my company has a Confluence ( https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence ) and we use JIRA to plan sprints so it all works pretty well together. Are your tasks documented at all? You might want to get them in some sort of service so you have written proof of just how much you're doing, then try to use that as leverage to at the least get an intern if you can't get someone you can manage.
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Jul 31, 2014 02:38
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How weird does this sound? I have a html5 video tag I'm using, with autoplay on the tag, but the autoplay isn't working. I can't figure out why. However, if I load the page with firebug open, the video autoplays. This is on a wordpress site and I'm wondering if that is somehow messing with something. ( I've used the code chunk before and it has autoplayed fined. )
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Aug 15, 2014 01:51
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Yeah the behavior is the same in FF and Chrome. Open dev tools, hit refresh, video autoplays.
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Aug 15, 2014 02:52
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A fun exercise is to say "I want to [cta text". So you want the user to view a detailed view if they press that button, so maybe something just like "View Detailed Information", "Detailed Information", or "See More Details".
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Sep 1, 2014 16:40
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When I loaded the page I was like "That menu seems fine", then the hover knocked me out of my chair. Yeah it looks like you have 3 levels of information, with level 2 being you're actual items. I don't see a need for level 1 on any of the dropdowns, just sounds like some marketing fluff that only adds to the confusion. Then on like Products it's almost like you're trying to fit a whole landing page in the navigation. Would right more but I'm in a rush.
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Sep 2, 2014 19:30
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You could make your menu bar be what goes 100% then have a container inside of it that adds width constrictions / centering. Like: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/GAuaI
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Sep 4, 2014 21:29
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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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Sep 16, 2014 20:30
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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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Sep 19, 2014 20:34
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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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Sep 19, 2014 21:20
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I'm not going to say go with Wordpress because I don't know if there's better, but WP is pretty expandable to be whatever you want it to be. You could have a custom field just for the tables that lives inside each post and you can display outside of / in addition to the post content. It would be more helpful to hear about how he is building those tables now, is he just using an html wysiwyg and saving static files?
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Sep 26, 2014 21:30
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I'm starting to feel like if you're starting from scratch you need a really good reason to be doing so. Otherwise you're spending more time and making something that will be harder for other people to pick up and help work on / modify.
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Sep 27, 2014 14:59
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fuf posted:Is it better to load one large js file than multiple small ones? I've always wondered this. Yeah but if you need to update a vendor script you've made more work for yourself.
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Sep 28, 2014 15:55
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fuf posted:hey this is interesting: I've actually just started doing this because when it's supported it makes the page look so much lighter and nicer. Could you set a rule for the strong tag for font weight 900 or something? Or does adding !important to the default help?
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Sep 28, 2014 15:58
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fuf posted:I guess but grunt makes it pretty easy to concatenate and minify a bunch of scripts. Oh that makes sense, I don't know about all that cool stuff.
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Sep 28, 2014 17:47
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Yeah UX is really more of a mindset that isn't really tied to any coding in particular. I think studying something like information architecture or how to conduct usability research would make you a good UX practitioner. I actually just finished a great book that is all about coming onto a team as the sole UX evangelist: http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/ux-team-of-one/
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Sep 29, 2014 21:00
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^^^ a very good post about ux
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Sep 30, 2014 11:58
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kiwid posted:Anyone here familiar with Adobe Illustrator CS6? So you can make an artboard that is 180px tall, resize the logo to be 176px high, center it, and save for web without unchecking 'clip to artboard'.
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Oct 2, 2014 19:50
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:I hate the way tables behave in Bootstrap. As you are resizing the window horizontally, the table width jumps in increments and does not make good use of the available space. What kind of container / column is the table in? Can you show us the page?
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Oct 4, 2014 18:46
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The jumping is from the breakpoints. If you don't want the jumping you can put it in a .container-fluid. You also have mismatched columns in your row, when exactly do you want them to stack? Or do you never want them to stack? Check this out, never stacks, doesn't jump, and I threw in some responsive numbers for good measure: http://jsfiddle.net/umy3b64h/
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Oct 5, 2014 02:15
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If you're hung up on layouts and not design inclined I'd use a framework IMO.
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Oct 7, 2014 22:27
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Ehh, WYSIWYG generally implies no code manipulation.
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Oct 9, 2014 21:05
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My company's CTO, one of the smartest developers I've ever encountered, uses it as his IDE. I kind of stopped hating on it after that (and the fact that I stopped caring about its product development about 10 years ago).
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Oct 10, 2014 13:03
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I would also assume whatever your all CSS menu would do, would break in IE (or rather, old IEs). So if that's important, use a JS menu.
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Oct 27, 2014 15:34
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Yeah last we measured IE9 and lower made up less than .5% of our audience. Dancing ensued.
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Oct 27, 2014 16:57
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I don't know if you have zero design instinct I would probably say just get it in bootstrap 3 with all standard bootstrap markup and then you at least have a good base to then either customize the css yourself or look for themes that build off of a bootstrap base.
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fletcher posted:That's pretty much what I did for the original version of AYB, I kinda want it to have a more distinct style. I'm not really sure what I want though. I'm a hair interested in collaborating with you on this, I'm currently in a position where when I can design pages I can't put them in my "portfolio" ( really my dribbble ).
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