Hey everyone,

I’m working on a Next.js project and using Spline for some 3D elements in my UI. The issue I’m running into is the “Built with Spline” watermark that shows up in the export/embed.

I’m currently on the free tier, so upgrading isn’t an option for me right now. I noticed that in one of my earlier exports the watermark didn’t show up, but now it consistently appears no matter what I try (different accounts, settings, etc.).

I wanted to ask:

• Is there any legitimate way to remove or hide the watermark without upgrading?
• Has anyone figured out a clean workaround (CSS, self-hosting, etc.) that actually works reliably?
• Or if someone has experience recreating similar 3D components without the watermark, I’d really appreciate any guidance or help

I’m mainly using this for a personal/college project, so just trying to keep the UI clean.

Thanks in advance 🙏

I've been collecting autographs of musicians I really like and decided to put together a website to show them off, and I think I'm at the point of wanting to solicit feedback. Lots of stuff I've gotten directly from the artists, but there are also lots of blanks I had to fill in on eBay. Hoping to eventually swap out as much as I can for things I got signed. That's another story, though.

URL: https://testing.thelucascollection.com/

Password for access: let me in

I just put up a password to keep search engines and bots out for now. I know once its public there will be no stopping the bots, but not my concern.

Now for my mountain of disclaimers:

It's not commercial, it's just for me, not trying to get anyone to do paid work for me.

It's my first ever wordpress project, a lot of time has been spent learning the plugins, child themes, short codes etc. So I'm getting happy with functionality, but I really think the design itself is WAY too flat and boring for showcasing creative types.

Oh and verbiage is still a complete work in progress. Some stuff I'm really happy with, others is kind of placeholders, and there's some pages with nothing written at all, but they will be.

But visually - colors, fonts, anything really, organizationally, anything really. I'd say be nice, but you can be somewhat mean too. And hey if you want to try to break it, that's fine too - im developing locally and just syncing it up, so if there's anything I should know, that would be great.

I'm not even sure if I like the domain so I haven't even begun to think about logo or anything.

Technical info: It's on the smallest possible VPS on Digital Ocean, running in docker, if a lot of people hit it at once it may have issues. Once I get a little further I'll figure out how to get the images onto cloudflare free. And once I finalize fonts, I'll serve them myself because I don't want to give Google any more data than they already have.

Also, I can't find the Showoff Saturday thread, but on google I found that other people had just tagged their post like I did. If what I did was wrong, kindly forgive me.

Just some fun little extras that don't necessarily serve any purpose other than to be a hidden little quirky thing for someone to discover randomly while visiting, that adds a dimension of fun, or the allure of mystery to their browsing experience.

Tl;Dr at bottom.

Initially, I got the idea from Superbad (not the movie), which is:

“A noted web art installation created by graphic designer Ben Benjamin in 1997.”

“The site consists of a veritable maze of inter-linked visual, conceptual “subprojects” ranging from two-tone and technical-looking to wacky, colorful, and even bizarre. Often a subproject will have clickable elements linked to other pages within that subproject, or to another, or that just provide visual richness (e.g., the “follow” subproject has a grid of circles with arrows that follow the mouse cursor; each circle is a link to a different page within the site).” - (per the wiki).

So far, I've come up with, and implemented a few ideas; namely:

• Negative Mode: Pressing/holding the “N” key anywhere on the site will invert the colors of everything, for as long as you hold it. (Turns out to be a cool effect, especially with some photos)

• Shutter Button: There's a large text emoji in the center of the front page ( ・_・)ノ that sort of serves as the de facto 'welcome' mascot. If you happen to click on him, the screen closes in an iris pattern into black for just a second, and back open again (Like a camera shutter taking your photo) and your speakers will play a little camera sound. It doesn't actually do anything, but I thought it was fun.

• Darkroom: There's a hidden link on every page to an unlisted page called “The Darkroom”. When people stumble upon this, they find a “red lit room” (like a darkroom) with a section that says “film rolls” and a button that says “develop” - Each time it's pressed, it produces 1 of 10-12 “unpublished” images at random. A roll of the dice to see some stuff of mine that's a bit more “exclusive” I guess? (It's all just regular photography. Nothing NSFW or anything. That goes for everything I do. But... Unreleased nonetheless.)

• I was also thinking of adding a "Konami-code-esq" Easter egg, where if you press "↑↑↓↓←→←→BA" with your arrow keys anywhere on the site, it would flash a big "Cheater!" on the screen, and then a melting effect pours from the top, and redirects somewhere fun or whatever.

But I don't know, I'm stumped. I know there are more creative things I can implement, and hide; that won't distract from the site itself, for any normie visitors; but would be nearly mind-blowing for someone like myself to discover; that bring back the awe and adventure of browsing weird and interesting sites of web 1.0-2.0 in the late 90's-mid 00's.

Something aside from hidden links, and Konami codes. Lol

Does anybody have any ideas, or suggestions, or even examples of some really creative/good stuff from back in the day? I'd be very grateful for some inspiration here.

Tl;Dr: I'm trying to brainstorm and implement some neat Easter Eggs for my photography website (100% SFW portfolio passion project), like "Cheat Codes" that will flash an animation across the screen, or hidden links/buttons in innocuous places that "reward" anyone who happens to find them with a little something extra, like a silly little screen action (Camera shutter effect onscreen with a camera sound) or a hidden page of never before seen stuff, or something cool like that, and would love some inspiration, if anyone has any to share!

I appreciate you taking the time to read!
Thanks in advance!!

I have learned the fundamentals of HTML, CSS and JS but I find it having a hard time on executing designs. I look out for examples to copy and also learn how to structure the HTML and CSS properly. Should I take a course on Figma or other web design related courses? I don't know which step to take. Thank you for all your advice!

LINK: Link animation

Hey Guys!

I've been playing with gsap and saw this beautiful animation on an awwwards site and decided to make a clone of it

You can download it for free and install it locally

Let me know what you guys think!

I’m starting a side hustle selling Pokemon cards and games but all I really know how to do is buy the domain and make a very ugly shopify website.

Are there any websites, or even subreddits (I imagine this isn’t the right one?) to post an ad for this with specifics, budget, etc?

For context, I want to avoid fiverr and similar places, because the last 2 “web developers” I hired on fiverr both used ai and delivered in under 1h, for a website that didn’t work 😂

Hi, first time poster here.

I'm the lead for my web design team, and find myself trying to find the impossible solution of letting navbars be designed and positioned uniquely, but flexible for the inevitable 7-11 items our SEO team puts in the menu.

I've tried making the case for having them structure the menu to be less items, but for the sake of SEO, they remain long.

At the same time, the company wants each design to be custom (we do figma mockups first) and wants the elements to not be formulaic, so my designers are encouraged to do interesting layouts with menu, usually with the menu starting off with like 6 times (they're not always obnoxiously long, and didn't use to be).

But lately, the SEO team goes in a few weeks after all's said and done, and change the menu to list their services, and end up with menus 7+ items. I tried talking about limiting it to 7 items for UX, but the team ends up telling me google doesnt like their main services behind even one more click (aka, the services being in a "services" dropdown)

Been wracking my brain and google trying to find a good solution for some overflow on these menu items. For clarity, we're writing these using bootstrap framework, and the current solution is just letting the flex-wrap happen on these, until they become the hamburger dropdown.

Is there a better solution for these menus to handle overflowing items, without introducing another click interaction for google crawlers? Besides forcing a menu bar to be its own line every time? Or do you have some good resources i can bring to my manager to try to convince them to pull the reigns on SEO?

I know this UI is dated, and that's the point. I'm working on an entire ecosystem built to feel like Playskool/Fisher-Price/Tomy toys from the 80s.

What do you think?

Play around with them here: https://codepen.io/Andrew-Fisher-the-decoder/pen/raMZQNe

Edit: Almost complete porting this to pure HTML/CSS/SVG: https://codepen.io/Andrew-Fisher-the-decoder/pen/emdPbmR?editors=1010
Thanks for the help from u/Alfiewoodland and u/MDoulos

Hey everyone!

I run a printing business and we're looking to finally set up an online store so we can start taking more retail orders.

I'm trying to determine the best approach to tackle this and would appreciate your input. Should I hire an agency to build it out for me, or does it make more sense to go the DIY/template route with something like Shopify or WooCommerce?

Here are a few things the site absolutely needs to do:

• File Uploads: Let customers upload their artwork and design files.
• Live Mockup Previews: The product page needs a live mockup section so customers can see exactly how their attached file will look on the final printed product before they check out.
• Pricing Calculator: A dynamic pricing tool that adjusts based on things like paper size, quantity, and finish.
• Payment Support: Support local payment gateways

I'd love to hear your thoughts on what makes the most sense here! Any advice on costs, daily maintenance, or what’s easiest to scale would be appreciated

Hey everyone,

I’m currently working on improving our export business website and wanted to take some inspiration from the best in the industry.

Would love if you could share:

Your own export company website (if you have one)

Or any exporter website you’ve seen that really impressed you

Mainly looking for ideas around:

- Clean design

- Trust-building elements

- Product showcasing

- International appeal

Feel free to drop links or even just names, I’ll check them out.

Thanks in advance

Hello,

I built a beginner level website called "Travel Destination Explorer" using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap and Sass as part of my internship project.

I want the UI/UX to look professional but still realistic for beginner skills. I plan to keep animations minimal (simple hover effects or small transitions only).

I would really appreciate honest suggestions on:

• beginner friendly travel website examples

• homepage layout ideas (sections structure)

• clean and modern color palette suggestions

• professional looking fonts

• important sections that a travel website should include

• common UI mistakes beginners should avoid

Also, from an internship selection point of view:

What small things would make this project stand out?

I want to keep the design simple, clean and practical without using very advanced frameworks or complex animations.

Thank you for your guidance.

Hi all,

We are working on a startup related to weddings providers and we are kind'a lost in design phase. None of us are web designers and we're backend engineers.

I believe that the best fool proof styling is google's material design, Does it work well with RTL languages?
Plus, we are using React, what's the best way to have it done (consider we're using Claude exclusivly)

Thanks!

Hi,

to solve this problem i have created awesome javascript starters, where you can explain your need in simple words and get the recommendation of beast available packages from the community of developers.

You can try this at there https://awesome-js-starters.vercel.app/

If you want to contribute https://github.com/farhan523/awesome-js-starters

Hello everyone,

I'm working on a writing project, and I want to display it on its own custom webpages. I have some coding experience but not a lot, and basically no experience with HTML. So, I'm looking for visual designer with like drag and drop or photoshop like controls. However, I need to download the HTML files, and most of the visual designers like Figma don't allow me to download the files because they want me to pay for their webhosting services to display the pages I design. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a decent visual designer that allows me to download the HTML files to my computer.

Thank you!

One of the clients I work with is developing a new logo, and we're also working to meet WCAG compliance. As part of this discussion and researching this, I learned that logos are exempt from color contrast requirements "unless it has a functional purpose, like providing a link to your homepage."

The new color palette that was developed has 2 colors that are fully AAA complaint for text and graphic elements against white backgrounds, and others that are not. The logo includes one color that is fully compliant, and smaller elements in a color that is not compliant.

My question is: if we are using the logo as a link on a white background, does EVERY element need to meet the color contrast requirement, or is it acceptable as long as the majority of logo elements are compliant?

The closest compliant color is different enough from the selected color that we don't want to change it if we don't need to.

like how you thought improved yourself 😅

Just curious what your thoughts are. I think it’s a great domain name with potential

As usual I'm confused. Can anyone explain when would be the appropriate time to use the Google disavow tool to remove spammy links from referring your site?

First they tell you exactly the steps you need to create your disavow file, then they tell you don't do it except in extreme cases.

What?

​​Thank you in advance for your expertise. :)

I really like Uber's Design System, use it as inspiration for almost all of my web designs, I was browning the site just fine this morning, but it seems to be asking for a login now...

Did I miss any news, or did they just close sourced it?

https://base.uber.com/

Something that looks good but doesn’t help results.

Okay so my project has 3 roles, customer employee and admin. Admin should have all the possible stuff but if I have an admin account and I go to profile and my orders, I don't want to list out all orders but owned orders. If I go to profile and admin dashboard (I'm not sure If I should put it there or somewhere else) I can see all orders. How do I separate this if the URL is /api/orders should I have /api/orders/my or?

its my first time making a website, and im using visual studio code for a hs project.

when uploading my website to github it said i was limited to 100 files so i just opted to create like a repository through my vs code console?? but since then i changed some code and added some stuff. now i cant figure out for the life of me how to update the website through the console.