Questions tagged [design]
Design is a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a program, database, stored procedure, or other object before it is created or made.
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Please use different color on 'seen' anchor tag
Until recently the color of Questions in the main pages of Questions of dba.stackexchange eg had had significance. Now a Question that I have opened is the same color as one I have not yet looked at. ...
14 votes
3 answers
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Suggestions for a better headline graphic
An answer to DBA's updated site theme is ready for testing! suggests that the headline graphic ought to be more reminiscent of an ERD diagram. Before: Now: In a comment, Catija asked us to come ...
9 votes
5 answers
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DBA'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 ...
2 votes
1 answer
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New mobile navigation got vertical scroll bar
This look not so good in the new mobile navigation. There is an vertical scroll bar.
9 votes
1 answer
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DBA SE graphic design: Who did it, and what else have they done?
I've always enjoyed the graphic design of the DBA SE header: Who made it and what else have they done? I like it and want to see more.
20 votes
3 answers
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Should we change the formatting of backtick markdown elements?
At the moment, backtick markdown elements are rendered with a grey background. This can get a little jarring when used frequently, for example: I have a table Widgets with columns, WidgetID, Name, ...
-1 votes
2 answers
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What kind of DB diagram is the menu at the top of the page?
the menu at the top of the page looks like a database diagram. It isn't crows foot, so what is it? It kind of looks like the way I map my queries out...but I use a combination of the UML and the ...
12 votes
0 answers
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Site Design Updates
As you can see, the DBA community site got a slight design update today. We have moved the site's CSS to a newly refactored LESS system, so it's easier for us to fix SE network CSS bugs globally in ...
5 votes
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Inconsistent styling of tabs?
I'm new to this SE site, but I noticed some inconsistency in the way that 'tabs' are styled on this site. Here's a screenshot from the questions list: And most other areas of the site look very much ...
3 votes
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Can the color scheme for similar questions be changed?
Can the orange on yellow color scheme for matching/similar questions be changed. The contrast between the two colors is low. I see a similar question Which color to chose for the dba.exchange site? ...
5 votes
1 answer
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Minor clipping on expanded vote counts
The answer to (How to make trigger code execute only for a specific application?) demonstrate some clipping that is occurring when you expand vote counts. The following shows two shots at actual size, ...
9 votes
0 answers
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Visited links in our meta are almost invisible
Quick, spot the link in this paragraph: I understand that meta is supposed to be muted, but I think the brown for visited links is at least a shade too dark. Surely now that I've told you there's a ...
10 votes
1 answer
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Some badge pages truncate users' badges
Certain badge pages only allow a maximum width for a username + badges, and since we have some users who choose to use ridiculously long and impossible to spell usernames, this causes truncation of ...
7 votes
0 answers
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Moderator Election Page comments overflow on Mobile version
I know that the Moderator Election pages do not have a mobile version by design but when viewing the DBA.SE election page the comments overflow beyond the column for each nominee which does not happen ...
30 votes
4 answers
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Can We / Should We Strongly Encourage Users to Specify RDBMS on the "Ask" page?
More than most other sites, the majority of our questions require a specific piece of information: What RDBMS and what version is the asker using? If it's possible, would it be a benefit to add this ...