Nadav Har'El
Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:58:57 -0700
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001, Shlomi Loubaton wrote about "Re: [Haifux] hifux site's design": > I think we should write "this site is best viewed using lynx" and add a W3C > XHTML1.00 or HTML 4.01 Validation Service icon : http://validator.w3.org/ If you want to have site that look great and "designed" on graphical browsers (such as Mozilla) and also great on a textual browser (such as lynx), I urge you to look into CSS. CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, is a standard (look at w3c's site for a complete document on it) for defining how HTML elements should look like, e.g., you can say that all H1 headings should be 1-inch tall and red, that all paragraphs should be 500 pixels wide and indented, that lists should use some gif image instead of the usual bullet, and much much more. This way, the site looks exactly like you want it to look in all modern graphical browsers (both Mozilla and IE have almost complete support for CSS 1, and some of CSS 2; Netscape 4 supports CSS 1 but is somewhat buggy), but textual browsers (such as lynx), and more importantly - browsers for the vision impaired (blind, dyslexic, etc.) will know exactly what the author meant, since the author uses H1, LIST, etc., rather than amorphous tables and graphics. You can see an example use of CSS in my homepage, nadav.harel.org.il. and in particular my pets' homepage, at http://nadav.harel.org.il/homepage/doggie.html Not a pinnacle of design, but a good example on how to create a site that is not bad-looking (I'd like to think) on a graphical browser, and still looks great with lynx. It's very hard to create a page that looks this good in both Mozilla and lynx without using CSS - try it and you'll see why. -- Nadav Har'El | Saturday, Sep 15 2001, 28 Elul 5761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |Enjoy the new millennium; it might be http://nadav.harel.org.il |your last. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]