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Making Web Pages Printable with CSS

Monday, February 15th, 2010

In 2003 I wrote an article on how to use CSS to make web pages printable. I figure that it made sense to include it here … the article:

One of the classic problems with how web pages are designed, is that they are horrible to print. Horrible in the sense that page elements (text, images, etc.) don’t line up and unwanted images and navigation links get printed.

I am as guilty as anyone of creating pages like that, but I am aiming to fix it for your websites and mine. While most other web designers will create separate ‘printable’ pages (big waste of time), we will only be making some simple additions to our pages to make them ‘print friendly’.

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CSS Font Sizes

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

In this tip, you will learn how to specify a font’s size with CSS.

Being a practical nerd, I will not waste time talking about all the various methods for declaring font sizes with CSS … instead I will concentrate on the two widely used ways and then briefly explain the differences.

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CSS Font Color

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

In this ultra simple nerd-free CSS tip, I will show you how to change the color of your fonts with CSS.

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Killer CSS Tips and Tricks – Introduction

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Hi,

I wanted to introduce this new series of articles, videos and the occasional podcast that will cover all sorts of cool CSS techniques. You will find things as simple as styling links, to complete page layout strategies.

This growing collection of CSS tips, tricks and techniques can used to learn CSS and then later, you can use them as a cookbook of recipes you can refer to.

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3 ways to add CSS code to your web pages

Monday, February 8th, 2010

For some of you, this may sound like a real lame article. But you ought to give it a chance because I don’t write about stuff you’ll never use! I avoid marginal, nerd centric ivory tower blather like a cat avoids water.
I’ve read hundreds (sadly, this is true) of those 2-inch thick nerd [...]

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Inserting Images with CSS

Monday, February 8th, 2010

This article assumes that you know at least basic HTML; you know what a tag is and how to use simple tags like the <img> or the <p> tag. If this is confusing you, you need to read my tutorial for total beginners on web design – it’s really easy and people seem [...]

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