Week 1 Supplements ~ CS 181 ~ Electronic Publishing on WWW ~ Computer Science, University of Montana

CS 181 - Electronic Publishing on the WWW * ~ CLASSROOM SUPPLEMENTS ~ Week 1

HTML Design Principles :W3C Working Draft 26 November 2007 -

Simple photo editing programs (all of these have good support):

HTML editors:

(free) http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/htmleditors.shtml
http://www.coffeecup.com/ (in fact they have lots of programs and an active user community - http://www.coffeecup.com/software/)
http://www.pagebreeze.com/ (I haven't heard of this one before but I like their approach)

How is a printed page different than a screen?

You can provide a print icon on pages that leads to a page formatted with a different .css. This style sheet can

remove the background of the page
make sure all backgrounds are white
change all text color to black
make the text large enough so that the page can be easily read when printed
change the links so that they don't print differently than the rest of the text
maybe changing the font to serif which is considered easier to read in print
removing any and all nonessential images - anything not critical to conveying the content of the page (navigation buttons, most ads and animated images.

You can make media-specific style sheets for:

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