Questions tagged [design]
For questions regarding the design of the Stack Exchange websites; e.g., for issues with the layout.
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When viewing questions in tag marked as "interesting", they shouldn't be all marked interesting
When viewing questions in one of tags I consider interesting, using URL like http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/<tag>, and I have <tag> among "Interesting tags", all questions are ...
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Allow HTML tags in comments
If "<i>" is innocuous enough to be allowed in questions and answers, why can't we use it in comments too? Please don't make me memorize a bunch of dippy Markdown syntax just to add a little ...
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The best-looking site in the trilogy? [closed]
So I've just visited the superuser.com beta site and I must say I really like the color schemes and the way everything is so light and bright and just get out of the way for most things.
I feel like, ...
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There is no styling of nested lists
The style for nested lists is the same as the styling of a simple list. The biggest problem with this is the bottom margin:
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A → 1
A → 2
A → 3
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B → ...
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Can SO have a fluid vs. fixed-width layout? [duplicate]
When will SO stop wasting real estate of my screen by having static width layout?
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It would be very interesting to hear how does Joel, being UI specialist, feel about this. JoelOnSoftware site ...
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Redesign the default view - the sidebar takes way too much space!
On SO, in the default view (Recent Questions), I've got more than 2 screen heights of Interesting Tags and Ignored Tags. Followed by 2 screen heights of Recent Tags and Recent Badges.
The actual ...
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In question lists, some of the question body previews wrap strangely
I just noticed a question which appears slightly odd in Firefox 3.5 - "them." is the only text on the second line, so it appears in a rather odd location. (I expect it would wrap to be under the word "...
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Should reputation requirements change as a Stackoverflow Knowledge Exchange site grows in users and content?
Should the reputation requirements to participate in a stackoverflow knowledge exchange site change as the site evolves?
In normal use you gain reputation by being up voted, either your question or ...
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When and why did SO start using tables for layout?
I remember looking at some SO source markup months ago, and it was basically <div> heaven. The pure CSS zealots would've loved it. But today I look and see...
<DIV id="question" class="">
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What are the architecture details of Stack Overflow?
Software Stack: https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/
Database Details: https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/stack-overflow-creative-commons-data-dump/
What are ...
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<kbd> elements are way too intrusive [closed]
<kbd> is a great way to mark up text to be entered. But when you use it on Stack Exchange sites, it's really difficult to read. For instance, say I typed this sentence by starting with a Shift+F,...
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Will the badges ever have a design to them instead of just having colors?
Right now there are simply the colors of Silver, Gold and Bronze to indicate the badges. I think there should be some sort of design like the Xbox 360 has for its achievements. You could still keep ...
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Footer does not stick to bottom of page
OK, sorry, I know this is really superficial, but look at this page:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/page/that/does/not/exist/number/1
See the giant, ugly, horrible white space below the footer that ...
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User-Specific CSS
It would be nice if users could add their own styles to the CSS-Rules on SO. This is nothing more than a textarea in the user preferences that takes precedence over the default styles.
Users could ...
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