Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
| When |
Mar 13, 2006
from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM |
|---|---|
| Where | UNH Morse Hall Conference Room 301 |
| Contact Name | Robert Anderson |
| Contact Phone | 603 862-3489 |
| Attendees |
All are welcome to attend |
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The web has evolved a lot since it's inception. Originally content was static text with a few images where necessary.
- Todays web is:
- graphically rich
- mostly dynamic content
- full of fairly complex user interaction
The result is that web pages are harder to maintain and use, much more thought must be put into the design. Dynamic content imposes a much higher load on the server's resources than static content ever did.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are one step toward a solution. CSS allows a web server to focus on content and leave the final HTML markup to the clients browser. CSS also has hooks that allow the end user to re-skin the provided content, giving the user more display choices. Normal web content is made to be displayed on a graphical screen, CSS provides that while offering hooks to handle printers, and PDA/phone devices differently.
- The talk will cover:
- some examples of CSS
- Some online documentation resources
- A few Linux tools that can help the process
- One complete example web application with multiple skins
