Questions tagged [design]
For questions about the design of the site. Using this tag will ensure that the designers will see any bugs or feature requests.
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Site Design, round 2 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
New Design Launched
First, I want to thank you for your valuable feedback for the first design concept. Programmers.SE is a site about people and conceptual design more than ...
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Footer line floats up too high in the main review page
I'm seeing this on Chromium 22 (Windows & Linux) & Firefox 15 (Windows):
The footer line is a bit in the way. Tried the usual clearing of caches/hard refresh but that doesn't seem to help....
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What's this cohhunity bulletin?
I thought it was some sort of joke I'd missed out on because I'd pursuing glory in other SE's, but no... It's just community bulletin... So, is anyone going to do anything about the fact that the font ...
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New Design Launched
Hi all,
The new design has been deployed just now and I want to congratulate you guys for the official launch!
A few tweaks on the final design from the mockup I posted:
I decided not to use the ...
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It is possible to change the colors of hypertext links?
While on SO, the hyperlinks are light blue and easy to distinguish from simple text, the hyperlinks on Programmers.SE appears visually as much darker, especially for visited links (due to their color)....
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Use pink background when rendering historically locked posts
Related: Tags that only exist on locked questions, should we treat these the same as tags that don't exist at all?
philosophically Historical Lock questions are deleted
Visual difference between ...
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Design Ideas for Programmers Site [Closed] [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
New Design Launched
Hi all. I'm Jin, and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique ...
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Bottom bar floating in middle of the page
The bottom bar (that black almost a straight line thing) is floating in the middle of the page on reviews.
This may be a regression of:
Footer line floats up too high in the main review page
Line in ...
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1answer
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Pop up for Low Quality comment options behind links
The popup for the 'leave a comment' is showing up behind the links at the top of the page:
All of the following screen shots are from a mac.
Original report in Safari:
Fresh install of Firefox:
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5answers
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Styling problems with new theme and IE8
Kudos on the new theme; I like it. I just thought I would bring some styling problems in Internet Explorer 8 to your attention.
House font does not work on menus in header (questions/tags/users, ...
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New logo for Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Changing this site from the increasingly anachronistic "Programmers" to the more fitting "Software Engineering" has been... A long road. So far, we've discussed...
...the name ...
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The Ask Question link is wrapped
Check out the screen shot:
(Apparently Firefox isn't liking House Whiteboard...)
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404/Error/Captcha Images
Hi all,
I have started the CSS conversion of the new design, since it's gotten a lot of positive feedback this time. I'm aiming to launch the site very soon!
Meanwhile, I need some ideas for the new ...
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Would you like to see Programmers get a less playful/cartoonish design to attract professional questions?
All the scribbly-doodles and the cartoonish font on Programmers seems to me like a reason people might assume from the start that this site is for more chatty non-professional questions.
Would it be ...
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Programmers Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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kerning issues - click reads like dick, letter spacing
Using Firefox 16.0.2 22 on Windows 8, I've had a hard time reading certain sentences. Browser is normal zoom.
clean looks like dean.
click looks like dick.
Screenshot if you cannot see it:
And ...
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1answer
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Could we get the “new” coding font style?
As the newest generation of Stack Exchange sites are launched, one thing I'm envious of is the font style used for coding blocks.
Consider the following program here:
#include <stdio.h>
main()...
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1answer
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Accepted answer checkmark color
When I ask a question (and every answer has a check mark next to it for me to select one as my accepted answer), it's very hard for me to tell the difference between the check mark that I've checked, ...
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accomodations for visually impaired
I am (marginally) color-blind and have great difficulty distinguishing between hyperlinks and normal text on the SE-Programmers site. I can barely tell when the text is actually a link. To my eyes, ...
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The “comment edited” picture icon to be more subtle
The pencil icon for edited comments are far too large on P.SE + Meta. It seems like every other site uses the standard tiny pencil, which works well and is unobtrusive.
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Mod dialog in review doesn't show up properly (and a bonus feature request)
Let's start with the feature request.
When reviewing answers we have two mod links, when reviewing questions we only have the one. Having the mod link under the post feels a bit more natural, as ...
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1answer
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The “&” in the title font doesn't look anything like an ampserand
This is supposed to read:
Admin > Upcoming & Current Community Events.
I don't know what the symbol is in there, but it certainly doesn't look like "&".
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1answer
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Close Dialog Display Bug
Whenever I open the close question dialog on my laptop's 13" display, the upper portion of the popup winds up on top of the "Questions Tags Users..." navigation bar, but due to an issue with the ...
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Footer line isn't where it's supposed to be in review stats and history
This is how the stats for the low quality posts queue looks like:
Same thing happens in the history tab, for example check out the first posts history.
Just in case this is browser specific, I'm on ...
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0answers
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The “Flag comment” icon is too harsh
This is similar to The "comment edited" picture icon to be more subtle, but it has to do with the "Flag" icon that shows up when hovering over comments. On my machine it looks like this:
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Image covers the review page [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Footer line floats up too high in the main review page
Looking the review page, I notice the list of the review queue is covered by the image I normally see at the bottom of ...
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The “similar question” sections overlaps the footer [closed]
When asking a question, the "similar questions" side bar scrolls down, which is cool, but if I go all the way down to the bottom of the page, then the side bar covers up the link to the wiki, the "...
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Nav buttons floating over review dialog box [duplicate]
I was in the LQP review queue this morning and clicked the 'recommend deletion' dialog box. I dragged the dialog box away to look again at the question and noticed this:
The nav buttons are floating ...
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new design header bug [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The Ask Question link is wrapped
The new design has a bug in my Firefox 3.6.13 - the "Ask Question" link is under "Questions" not on the right where it should be:
Screen ...
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Line in UI goes under review tasks [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Footer line floats up too high in the main review page
See the screenshot below. I don't know whether this is because I only have 249 rep, but it's there, all right.
Note: I ...
