When designing a web page do you think about anything more than the look and feel of the page within a browser? Probably not, why should you? Aren’t all web pages supposed to viewed in a browser?
Well with an increasing number of people browsing the web from mobile devices such as the iPhone and Smart Phones, styling web pages should be more than just about being able to view them cleanly within the ‘zoomify’ function. I already have a draft blog post 90% complete on developing for the mobile web, but in reality styling your web site is also more than just about viewing your web site’s content from a desktop or mobile browser.
Do you care how your pages look when you go to print them? For example, if you have a product page that someone wants to print, doesn’t it just make sense to show the product image, details and your store logo off to their best, rather than having them scrunched up along side an irrelevant menu.
By the time you have spent energy and money making sure that the design and layout of your site are great in a browser you might as well go that little step further and cover every last detail. It’s something that will go relatively unnoticed but could make all the difference!
A List Apart has an excellent piece on Progressive Enhancement in CSS which you should read if you are interested in ensuring your site CSS is well organised, maintained and all bases are covered with their own front-end style sheets; and including a print, projector, handheld or any other stylesheet media group in your page is as simple as including a MEDIA attribute and comma delimited list of groups in your CSS include tags.
Web-head & art collector, living in East London and huffing on the fumes of the planet since '78. Here are my thoughts.
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