There are times when you want the printed output from a web page to look different that the way the page is displayed on a computer screen. This is particularly useful with blogs and web sites that provide information that users may want to print and file away for later use or for late night reading. I am amazed at the number of major web sites whose pages cannot be printed … [Read more...]

CSS shortcuts combine cascading style sheets rules into one efficient line of code. If your web site uses large stylesheets, cutting down on the amount of CSS code can help your code to load and render faster. Not all related CSS rules can be combined into a shortcut, but many of the most commonly used rules can be condensed into a single line. You do need to be aware that … [Read more...]

External CSS style sheets offer numerous benefits to web site design. This tutorial assumes that you already know something about the use of cascading style sheets. Our focus is on helping you to implement it better with your web site. First, they centralize CSS rules, which means that making a change in one file affects the entire web site; therefore, site maintenance is … [Read more...]