Archive for the 'Design' Category

Holiday Cheer on Forums

Seems like Google has made it popular to change the logo of a website for holidays. 
My question is how many of y’all do the same, and more importantly do your members like it? 
Over on my photography forum I switched out the default logo with a winter themed one for Christmas.  It’s scheduled to [...]

Why blocking right-clicks is a waste of time

There’s another forum I’m on where the discussion of blocking right-clicks comes up every few days it seems.  People put up their first website and are terrified when they find out how easy it is to right-click on an image and save it.
The problem is that it’s trivial for anyone with a moderate amount of [...]

Dice Sprites in GIF format

After spending about 20 minutes trying to find a good set of graphics for a dice rolling script I was working on I decided it was faster to just create my own. 5 minutes in Photoshop and I was done. There are individual files for each of the 6 die faces, an animated [...]

How important is design to the success of a forum?

How important do you think design is to the success of a forum?  It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums.  Content or design?  Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum?
I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a part [...]

Quick CSS to hide disabled scroll bars in Internet Explorer

The scroll bars in Internet Explorer never go away. If they're not needed, they just disable. To me this is an incorrect behavior, and it was really causing problems on a site I'm working on where I'm handling the scroll bars inside of a wrapper div anyway so I didn't want two scroll [...]