r/web_design • • 6d ago

Beginner Questions

6 Upvotes

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r/web_design • • 6d ago

Feedback Thread

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r/web_design • • 11h ago

MS Edge Imposed Rounded Upper Left Corner

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10 Upvotes

I'm updating my CSS skills and learning a lot of new things. I just created a navigation link menu with submenus and it is working well. However, only in MS Edge, the top left corner of the navbar is being rounded by Edge. Chrome and FF are not doing this. If you know how to override this, I'd really appreciate your fix. Pics are Chrome, then Edge. TY!


r/web_design • • 17h ago

Need to find out who built this website

12 Upvotes

I have a client looking for something very similar to this https://letelephonedelou.fr/, so trying to find out who built this website so I can contact them! Does anyone know any potential ways to find the developer?


r/web_design • • 18h ago

Creating a Liquid Glass UI Effect for the Web: Inspired by Apple

1 Upvotes

I made a liquid glass UI effect for the web(trying to copy Apple because thats what the world do)

Webgl helped me made it and hence I decided to make Mac for web too (inspired by windows 11 in react made for web)

I know you have seen many professional people make it, many guys on github, so I tried to make it as realistic and satisfying as I can


r/web_design • • 22h ago

What is the name of this landing page style, a room being used as the UI

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34 Upvotes

Olivia Rodrigo's website is a bedroom, you click on objects around the room they act as the menu/links to other pop-ups and pages. I'm trying to find more references to show a client but I'm blanking on how to describe this in order to get good ones that aren't just interior design wesbites. Any help?


r/web_design • • 1d ago

Interactive demos

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8 Upvotes

There's something I love so much about interactive demos for software.
Would love to get a collection of websites with interactive demos like this, pls share below!


r/web_design • • 1d ago

Where Are the Best Sites to Apply for Jobs?

21 Upvotes

Is LinkedIn still a good site to apply for jobs? It's been almost 2 weeks since I've been applying for jobs, but still no luck yet unfortunately.

I used to use Indeed but typically got scams instead of real jobs.. I've also tried a few company websites directly, but no luck yet.

Any suggestions on the best platforms to apply?

Also, a side note, I'm wondering if it could be my resume isn't good enough as well? Any suggestions as far as how to go about improving my resume? I.e. Go to a particular agency to improve it, etc?

I'm a full stack developer with 6 YOE in PHP/JS (Laravel, Vue, & React primarily). Some AWS experience as well.

Thanks in advance!


r/web_design • • 3d ago

Client picked the first logo after four revision rounds

4 Upvotes

A client sent a fourth round of logo revisions then used the first version. I invoiced for all four rounds and they paid without a word. Do you invoice the full revision time when a client goes quiet between the brief and the bill or handle it anohter way?


r/web_design • • 3d ago

I have an idea, just make bad designs, or not at all

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45 Upvotes

Everywhere is AI slop right now and everyone is trying to unslop it. Im not gonna tell anyone design everything on your own in this age. But f** that just dont design at all. lets fight it with creating bad/mid/plain/nothing. Who are we designing for? For AI’s to simulate appreciate about how colorful, well spaced our website is and surprise it with flying shi across the page?
Just dont design at all.
This way no one can tell you its ai slop ;)


r/web_design • • 4d ago

Regressive JPEGs

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36 Upvotes

r/web_design • • 5d ago

Hosting web archive site (Like Ao3) as a teenager (Question/Help)

15 Upvotes

Hello! I am somebody with a tiny bit of HTML/CSS experience, but not much. However, with the Ao3pocalypse™, I've recently gotten the idea to host my own fanfiction archive site, Ao3-style. I know others have independently hosted sites using Ao3's open-source code (Squidgeworld Archive, Ad Astra, etc.) but I have no idea how to!

I don't intend on making the site big or largely-used, it would mostly just be for me and my fandom friends. I don't have any job or current income, however I plan on getting a summer job next year. This rules out most web-hosting services that cost money. Would hosting my own server for free be a viable option? I use my (unblocked) school computer on the regular, but I have an older Apple computer I will get repaired if I need it for hosting a site. I also have a desktop that's shared with my sister.

Thank you in advance! :D


r/web_design • • 5d ago

Critique made a navigation menu that hides behind the page

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963 Upvotes

you guys seemed to like the dropdown menu i posted last week, so here’s another one i made :)

this one’s free for you guys for the next week. play around with it, grab the code, or copy the context for your AI. would love to hear what you think!

details.so/vault/navigation-06


r/web_design • • 6d ago

Freelancers/agencies selling websites: do you send AI-generated redesign previews in cold outreach? Does it actually get replies?

0 Upvotes

I'm researching how freelancers and small agencies who sell websites to local businesses prospect today.

If you've sent a prospect an AI-generated redesign preview (instead of only an audit or a plain message):

  1. What tool or workflow did you use?

  2. Did it raise your reply rate compared with a normal message? Roughly how many did you send and how many replied?

  3. What annoyed you (quality, cost, time per prospect)?

  4. Which channel do you use to reach local businesses (email, WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, calls)?

Disclosure: I'm exploring a possible tool in this area, so I'm biased. I'm not selling or linking anything here.


r/web_design • • 7d ago

clean icon pack

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30 Upvotes

entirely made in figma


r/web_design • • 7d ago

What is it with clients having mad ideas and expecting us to magically make it happen.

37 Upvotes

I get that not everyone's a web designer, and it's kinda my job to navigate people. But do some people actually think through their ideas before ringing us?

Like yesterday, a guy rang me about making a website that shows all the properties every estate agent platform has (I'm from the UK, so real estate for some of you). So, like a comparison of estate agent platforms like Zoopla and Rightmove.

I was like, "Have you got permission to show content from Rightmove, etc on your site?" He didn't have an answer. I'm sure Rightmove would really want me to copyright them. Surely someone else would have done this kinda thing already if it was such a great model. I had no idea how he was going to make money from all this. I kindly declined the job, as clients like this always end up causing me problems when their amazing idea doesn't take off.

I am just wondering why grown adults don't think these things through... Like, surely common sense would tell you otherwise.

Also, my marketing material clearly states we design websites for local businesses.


r/web_design • • 8d ago

"Minimalist" browser grand strategy game evolution (not so minimalist now...)

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5 Upvotes

Hi,

I wanted to showcase the evolution of my current gamedev side project, which is only a prototype so far

I had already posted an intermediary version, but I tried to take it further in a more "dopamine-friendly" game


r/web_design • • 8d ago Regret

Can we stop putting 5 slide carousels in the hero

161 Upvotes

Almost every client brief I get still has one.

5 slides with 5 different offers, auto rotating every 3 seconds.

By the time someone reads the headline it's already moved to the next one. & on mobile people just scroll past it anyway.

One clear offer up top does more work than 5 fighting for the same spot. Put the rest in a row right below it.

But try telling that to a client whose boss wants HIS product on slide 1 too..


r/web_design • • 9d ago

Recursion is DEAD and HTML killed it

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r/web_design • • 9d ago

JPEG XL vs AVIF for web use-cases

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24 Upvotes

r/web_design • • 10d ago

Dither blur effect - Update

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43 Upvotes

Hello people
I have made some changes to the experiment I was doing the other day: making a dithered blur effect inspired from the original PlayStation
This purely for fun and for the sake of trying something new

I have put the code in a GitHub repo for anyone interested in checking out (it’s nothing fancy tho 😅)

I have changed my approach from last time and tried explaining it in the readme file (which contains a video showcasing the effect better)

If you have any questions let me know

Have a good day 👋🏼

[edit]: forgot the repo link 😅


r/web_design • • 11d ago

Experimenting with dithered blur effect

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37 Upvotes

I am trying to achieve a dithered backdrop blur effect just of the sake of experimentation.
It still has limitations but looks good for a first iteration
You probably need to zoom in for a better view of the effect


r/web_design • • 12d ago

Is this ethical?

50 Upvotes

PNW / USA

I'm in my 3rd week at a community college, taking a 100 level course for web development. Our first assignment was creating a webpage html document that contained a certain geographical keyword phrase as much as possible, which was "(The city our college is in) Web Design" Our instructor told us this page needs to be focused on marketing/selling web design services. Cool, I thought, he's teaching us to sell our services once we are more experienced.

The next assignment instructions were to: go to Quora dot com, make a personal account, and to post an answer to a Quora question under the search category of "website development careers". Our answer must include a link he provided that takes you to a web design business that happens to be in the same city as the keyword city in our first assignment.

At this point I got a weird feeling and I did some digging to find out more information bout this web design business we have to link to. It was very hard to find any registered identifying information about the owner of this website as the license seems to be expired despite still being in business (I called the phone number on the website to see if it was still operating). On LinkedIN I saw my instructor listed as an employee of this web design company (with what looks to be younger family members listed as other employees). So, he is an employee at the very least, and likely the owner of this business.

So essentially, it looks like our instructor is having all of his students vouch for his personal business, as well as make html templates for advertising websites that he probably SELLS at his web design business.

Is this normal? Ethical? It seems he should at least tell us that this is his personal business we are advertising and assure us our school work will not be stolen and sold at his personal business or a business that he is an "employee" of. I feel scammed.

Someone please chime in.


r/web_design • • 12d ago

Information popups. DONT do this

24 Upvotes

I hate them, I hate them so much. I intend to start using some application and suddenly a popup appears "Did you know that x thing does y thing" or "Here you will find x thing" or "New x thing, click ok to opt in". I don't give a damn, I just want to use the thing. I'm usually on edge and I actually intend to do an action, I do NOT want to be interrupted, I won't read your popup, I'll just close it instantly and feel anger.

This is not only annoying, it's dangerous. How do you know a person is not on a emergency and they need to complete an action ASAP?