Should the administration section of a website have the same look &amp; feel as the other parts of the website?  I'm building a SAAS application and all of the public-facing parts of the website (home page, blog, about us, etc) share a HTML/CSS look &amp; feel. I now need to add HTML/CSS to the admin section of the website (the bit that someone gets access to once they have signed up so that they can configure the SAAS options). Should the admin section share the same look &amp; feel as the website proper? Is there any reason not to have a completely difference layout and colour scheme? Is it better to keep the same look so that users know they are still in the application or have a different look to differentiate the admin from the public-facing pages?
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Lets say we have an app that performs something like surveys. There are two primary types of users, administrative users who set up and build the surveys, (who are actually the customers), and the 'public' users being surved, who will also have accounts and profiles.  Here is my question. Considering how few views exist on the public end, and how different the function; is it appropriate to have a mildly different look and feel from the administrative areas? What kinds of value does this visual shift between the experiences hold?  Or should the two kinds of users get the same basic look and feel? Is there value to the two ends being visually consistent?  I caught myself preparing to go through the extra work of making a different look and feel for the public, but then realized there a good arguments on either side.
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Are there any rules on when to use icons vs. icons with text vs. just text links in a web application?  For example:    vs.   save  vs.  save    Extra question: Is  save -or- save  preferable?
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After installing SharePoint 2013. I had open the central admin page, But it does not have any image and CSS style.
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I plan to use the member plugin by Justin Tadlock  I wish to know if how could I, on the front side, auto switch to a theme according to a role status.. for example authors would have the site presented using theme 1 while editor would have the site presenter using theme 2  I would rather have 2 different theme rather than conditionals within one theme structure  Thank you in advance
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I've been spending some time looking at Phil Haack's article on  very interesting stuff.  At the moment I'm trying to figure out if it would be possible to use the same ideas to create a plug-in/modular architecture for a project I'm working on.  So my question is: Is it possible to have the Areas in Phil's article split across multiple projects?  I can see that the name spaces will work themselves out, but I'm concerned about the views ending up in the right place. Is it something that can be sorted out with build rules?  Assuming that the above is possible with multiple projects in a single solution, does anyone have any ideas about the best way to make it possible with a separate solution and coding to a predefined set of interfaces? Moving from an Area to a plug-in.  I have some experiences with plug-in architecture but not masses so any guidance in this area would be useful.
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It seems to be the  that tables should not be used for layout in HTML.   Why?  I have never (or rarely to be honest) seen good arguments for this. The usual answers are:   It's good to But this is a fallacious argument; . I guess it's true that using the table element for layout has little to do with tabular data. So what? Does my boss care? Do my users care?Perhaps me or my fellow developers who have to maintain a web page care... Is a table less maintainable? I think using a table is  than using divs and CSS.By the way... why is using a div or a span good separation of content from layout and a table not? Getting a good layout with only divs often requires a lot of nested divs. Readability of the codeI think it's the other way around. Most people understand HTML, few understand CSS. It's better for SEO not to use tablesWhy? Can anybody show some evidence that it is? Or a statement from Google that tables are discouraged from an SEO perspective? Tables are slower.An extra tbody element has to be inserted. This is peanuts for modern web browsers. Show me some benchmarks where the use of a table significantly slows down a page. A layout overhaul is easier without tables, see .Most web sites that need an upgrade need new content (HTML) as well. Scenarios where a new version of a web site only needs a new CSS file are not very likely. Zen Garden is a nice web site, but a bit theoretical. Not to mention its  of CSS.   I am really interested in good arguments to use divs + CSS instead of tables.
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I just wanted to know if it's ok to modify/remove links pointing to the designer of the theme.  In my case I have "theme by" and the site's logotype, would it be ok to remove the logotype and write the site's name? Or remove it altoghether?  Does it have to do with the particular designer of the theme?  Thanks
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is looking bad right now. No errors in the console, but the following files have no content:         The CSS on another subdomain works fine though:
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As a web developer, both front-end and back end architect, I work with many different designers and sometimes find it frustrating working with design comps where no thought was put into how to accomplish the design in basic CSS and HTML.  On the other hand as a developer I'm expected to be able to produce code from any design.  Do web designers need to know basic modern CSS and HTML techniques?  Why or why not is this important for a well rounded web designer?  Some general thoughts:   Front end web developers should be skilled enough to code up any design. Web designers should have an understanding of how users will actually interact with their design. Design shops would rather have designers design and leave all the coding up to the developers.
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I often see color combinations on webpages, images, posters, products etc. that harmonize really well. Am I allowed to use those colors in my own design?   This is solely about the colors. I will not use images, logos or shapes from that source, and my content is not related to the original color source. I am also far from any commercial aspect here.
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The new  for Meta Stack Exchange looks exactly the same as the one for the  site:        This can get a bit confusing, especially if you happen to have many tabs open from both sites.  It also looks a bit silly in the site switcher menu:  All the per-site metas (and MSO, even before the MSO/MSE split) have favicons that are grayscale versions of the main site icons.  Why not do the same for MSE? Conveniently, michaelb958 already wrote a nice  to do just that (and I  it to apply to the menu too), so you can easily see for yourself how it would look.  Or just see the screenshot below:  So here's my proposal: Let's make this gray icon the official MSE favicon.  Update: The meta.SE favicon has recently been changed to a simplified outline version of the SE logo:  I'm not sure how much I like the new logo (for one thing, it doesn't seem to match the dimensions of the main SE logo), but at least it's different, which was the main point of this request.
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Curious about text alignment on websites. For a blog, for example, is it better to have left-aligned or justified text? I like the look of justified text but I'm not sure if there's any downsides to it.
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We're a web design company that have created several websites for clients, all of which have a back link to our own website. I was just wondering the best strategy for this:   Should the keywords be in the title, alt and link text? E.g &lt;a href="domain.com" title="keyword"&gt;Keyword&lt;/a&gt;? Should we make the keyword the same on all the client web sites? Should we incorporate our company name as the link text?   Are there any other general things I should follow?  UPDATE: Currently we have "designed &amp; built by ". Are we better off having something like ""?
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I am wondering if we should use  or  for buttons and headings in websites and web/mobile apps? Title Case: Manage my Account Delete my Account  Sentence case: Manage my account Delete my account  In  I found the recommendation 'choose your style and be consistent'. This is it? Aren't there any other (additional) recommendations or sources. Like for specific use cases or apps where the one style would be preferred over the other? Edit: The question refers primarily to English, but differences in other languages are also good to know.
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Why are login forms always centered on the screen? Most horizontally, some vertically also. Sites like Apple/Amazon/Adobe/Microsoft/Google/PayPal/Instagram/Twitter etc. are all centered! Is this an undocumented best practice everyone unanimously decided to use?         &ndash; Wireframes created with   Obviously it's most aesthetically pleasing, but is there any other reasons why?  Edit: Many of these sites do not support mobile either, so it wasn't done specifically for that.
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On a similar note to this question:  (which only covers two examples only on the profile page, this question mentions more places on and outside the profile page where this bug occurs).  I've noticed that whenever there are these page buttons now, for example, the profile page, /questions and tag pages they are orange.  Per the other post I'm assuming this is a bug but if it was intentional then this is a feature request to make them theme-able per site again.
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Basically Drupal is bit complicated for normal clients. Drupal 7 is better but still its not that user friendly for clients especially when comes to admin content or taxonomy!  Is there any module or themes which designed the client in mind? I found  and  very helpful :) Any other to simplify admin section?