Transferring content legibly from the screen to paper has never been a particularly easy task, especially considering the trouble encountered by most web designers dealing with different screen sizes and platforms. Despite this, it makes sense to cater for users who wish to print web content, as it is well known that many people have problems reading large pieces of text from a computer screen. Those web designers who have bothered to cater for users both on the screen and on paper have historically used one of two techniques: (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘CSS’
Printing from the Web
Friday, November 24th, 2006Introducing the Cascading Style Sheet
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005Jakob Nielsen said it in 1997. Jeffrey Zeldman reiterated it two years later. Cascading Style Sheets were, then, the way to go.
By now, most of the web design and development community use CSS to control the style of a website, all who said go, were right.
What is CSS?
CSS, as Wikipedia explains, is a “style-sheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in markup language” such as HTML. (more…)
Web site Testing Tools
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005Warning: “Electronic (testing) tools can help users make web pages more accessible, but (do not) guarantee total accessibility”, says wd4a.
Entering a site’s URL or uploading site files to one of the many online testing tools, commercial testing packages or validators returns information on code errors and accessibility concerns. However, as the Royal National Institute of the Blind highlights, “(these) …tools …understand source code, but not how it is being used. For example, the tool will understand that the page contains a table, but it cannot identify whether (this table) is being used for layout or to display data”. (more…)