Questions tagged [design]
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English Language & Usage's updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Can a placeholder text be added to the question body box?
I posted this suggestion to another post, but thought it would be worth its own separate feature request.
Is it already possible to add a placeholder text to the question body box, or would the SE ...
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English Site Design
Hi all, I am Jin. I'm the designer who works on the design and CSS conversion for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase.
I'm very excited about the design for the English ...
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Hyperlinks could be improved for colourblind individuals
I quite like the design of the English StackExchange site - I actually think it's one of the best of all of them. I only have one rather serious complaint with it though, and that's the colour of ...
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Addressing the responsive EL&U site theme - moving forward
Hello, English Language & Usage Denizens!
(Yes, I know you don't literally inhabit this site, but hi, anyway)
First, an apology:
This site was probably the hardest site for me for a variety of ...
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What font does the site use?
I've noticed that the fonts at this site are different form the font at other S.E sites (which is Arial, I think). So I wanted to know what fonts are used here?
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Color of certain elements in Main site doesn't match up with the rest of the page
It is obvious that the grey of the blocks and the grey in the horizontal rule don't match up with the rest of the page.
Adding a small amount of the color from the background to it could greatly ...
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Why are some questions shaded green? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are some questions on the question page darker than others?
I've really tried to figure this one out on my own, but I give up. What determines whether or not a question ...
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Election candidate statistics overlap candidate's user card, plus sprite CSS problem
There is a display problem on the current election page.
Information overlaps the "user card" and hurts legibility.
Compare (bad):
To better from the current ...
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"Possible duplicate" message is difficult to notice
Update 2011-04-27: Jin removed the quotation image altogether here
When a question is closed as a duplicate, the duplicate question is selected (by the users who vote to close) and then attached ...
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New Design Launched
Hi all,
As you can see, the new design went live, congratulations on the official launch!
If you see any CSS/Styling issues, please start a new question for the bug report, and tag it with "Design" ...
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EL&U's top bar stopped being elegant in 2013
This is how the top bar appears in October 2017 on my desktop. I like the search box, it's larger and it is clear. But it's off-center, it's like a picture frame that's askew, I want to align the ...
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The accepted answer check mark is almost indistinguishable between active/inactive
The active vs inactive checkmarks are very difficult to tell apart on this site:
When I'm scrolling down the page it's hard to tell which answer I've actually accepted (or if there is one). ...
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Could the meta site be more clearly labeled?
I'm a new user. I was looking at the main site, and trying to learn more about how things work, so I clicked the FAQ link; then I clicked something else, I'm not sure what, and found a bunch of ...
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Make blockquotes inside blockquotes better distinguishable
Given the nature of this site, it happens that one wants to quote something that contains a blockquote itself, e.g., as an example sentence. For example:
A run-on sentence is something like this:
I ...
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iPhone display is (almost) identical for EL&U and ELL
I am bereft of my laptop. Until recently, a friend of mine had lent me his mini computer while my laptop gathered dust at a friend of a friend's house who had promised to fix it. The lender has ...
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Side bar formatting problem on the elections page
I've noticed a side bar formatting problem on elections page.
The fancy border doesn't stretch with the content ...
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Why are some questions on the question page darker than others?
I've noticed some questions on the questions page are tinted darker than others
Looking at the CSS, I see that they have the same class applied to them as the normal-shaded questions on the page (and ...
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Minor design tweak
FYI, I have removed the red double quote graphic from the <blockquote> element.
The styling was nice when if the post has a giant block of text. However since the new design launched, I noticed ...
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Colorblind-friendlier design
I am not sure what color links are on the ELU site, but they are really hard for me to see as I am red-green colorblind. Could we either change them to a color with more contrast or add a bottom ...
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All mods are equal, but some mods are more equal than others
/about:
Dear Jin, this is funny and all, but... but... BUT!
(Opera, Chrome, Firefox; Vista.)
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The Incredible Shrinking ELU Banner
Something awful has happened to the top of all our pages. Earlier today they looked like this:
But now it has shrunk to a nearly unreadable proportion:
The new version is completely shrunken, which ...
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Updates to the site
My name is Kurtis and I'm a designer with Stack Exchange. You may have noticed some minor updates to the design of the site. The updates are part of a SE network-wide update to a new base css ...
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Background of long OP username looks ugly in comments
I just noticed something funny in the comments to this question:
See the messy "scratches" on each end of the OP's username? I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to be there.
The reason this ...
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Design bug when editing an old revision
Example:
Reproduced in Chrome 8, Opera 11, and IE8.
This is how it appears in Safari 5.0.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.
Edit: Bug is still present. Chrome 14 on Windows 7 looks just like above.
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Link style on the main site
Is this still active?
According to that thread there are supposed to be fine dotted lines beneath links. I have no such lines. Sometimes I actually do miss the links in the color scheme.
Links as ...
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What typeface is used in the EL&U header?
Which typeface is this?
How does it get instantiated into the page? I tried looking at the webpage source with Firebug and it just shows up the following HTML tags.
<div id="hlogo">
<a ...
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Watched tags: design flaw
The title in one of the sidebar boxes isn't right. I hadn't noticed this before, so it may be new, although I don't think we've had any tweaks recently. Or perhaps it's just me and my browser (Chrome ...
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New theme: fix serif-vs-sans font combinations
In what I hope is the correct spirit of bringing concrete, actionable suggestions for changes and updates to the new theme, I would like to ask for the fonts to be harmonized as tchrist went into ...
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Review Queue filter drop-down cut off screen
This bug is little more than a minor nuisance, but it strikes me as something that would be easy to fix and improve user experience if it were changed.
When you set a filter on the review queue, and ...
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"Editing help" page formatting appears broken
The formatting of the editing help page, linked from the sidebar when typing or editing a question or answer, appears quite broken:
Notice how the background horizontal lines are in inappropriate ...
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Unreadable styling for highlighted tags on meta
When highlighted because the mouse moves over them, the “status-bydesign” tag and some others turn into a weird and unreadable combination of colours: black text on maroon background. Here's an ...
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The FAQ link on main no longer fits in Chrome [closed]
Starting today, this is what I see:
This only happens in Chrome (22.0.1229.79 m) and only on the main site. Meta looks fine. Other SE sites look fine. Not reproducible in Opera, FF, IE, or Safari....
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It's hard to tell whether I've accepted an answer [duplicate]
When I'm looking at an answer to a question that I asked, I find it hard to tell whether I've accepted that answer.
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The difference is clear when they're placed next to each other, but not in ...
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New Design: Can we increase the contrast between certain items?
I've noticed that some of the elements in the new design don't contrast enough from their surroundings.
Example:
- Hyperlinks are dark red, so dark that I have difficulty distinguishing them from ...
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Captcha page description box bug; border broken
The /captcha page's Are you human box's right border is acting funky:
That weird line after Human is supposed to be the right border with the Fleur-de-lis.
I get the issue in the three main browsers;...
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Number of pending edits unreadable [closed]
Observe:
Firefox 3.6.13 under Ubuntu Lucid, if that matters.
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Could we have this header on the mobile site?
We have two versions of the header on the mobile version:
The standard main site one:
And another one, visible in the help pages and review queues
Could the alternative header be made default?
Why:
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