I agree on what Onno suggested. Web design nowadays is much more than creating layouts to fit into one device/screen. It's about presenting information to any devices that is Internet-enabled. (and that includes the Internet fridge!!)
HTML/CSS is definitely the future to go for web designers, because it allows you to create different presentational structure (using CSS) for the same type of content (using HTML). You can create different stylesheets for normal browsers, for printing, and for small screen devices, attach them to the same HTML code and when a device loads the content, it will load the appropriate stylesheet for it and if it can't display properly, you can disable the stylesheet and your content is still viewable/assessible in simple HTML. In web design speak, we call it "Graceful Degradation". You will still need to test your site in different resolutions and ESPECIALLY different browsers (and devices if possible). Things to keep in mind: - IE support of CSS is inconsistent and also wrong in some cases (box model layout). But there is a "hack" or a way around it. <http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/boxmodelhack.html> - Netscape 4 does not display CSS positioning at all, and in some extreme cases, actually crash the application. Some more sites I recommend to visit: http://www.stopdesign.com http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/resources/ (from the creator of CSS zen garden) Hope this helps! Steven On Thursday, April 28, 2005, at 09:51AM, Onno Benschop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is going to likely sound like a cop-out, but you should really >consider the implications of what you are asking. The whole point of the >web is to be a common distribution environment for information. The >places were that information is distributed is as varied as it gets: > > * different connection speeds > * audio and Braille screen readers > * mobile phone browsers > * pda browsers > * text-only browsers > * screen resolution varying from 160x160 to 1600x1200 and others > * paper vs. screen > >The above just name a few of the things you'll come across and I've not >even touched on compatibility between browsers. > >So, the question you are asking is the wrong question in my professional >opinion. The real question is: "How do I design a web-page that will >render appropriately in the environment in which it is presented?" > >The answer used to be, create graphics, tables, single pixel lines, set >widths, set font-sizes, etc. > >The answer today is, separate out the content from the display. Make >very simple HTML pages and apply style sheets to them. I find great >success in thinking of a page as chunks of data and semantically wrap >each "element" into a <div>, so you can later refer to that div class >within the style-sheet and change the layout completely. > >A great example of this is a very simple page, called the ><http://www.csszengarden.com/>, which has hundreds of different >style-sheets attached that show different views of the same information. >I suggest that you should also visit <http://www.alistapart.com/> to >learn about how style-sheets really work. > >So, "how big should I make it" is not really what this medium is about >any more. > > >Kind regards, > >-- >Onno Benschop > >Connected via Optus B3 at S25°34'41" - E152°35'34" (Graham's Creek, QLD) >-- >()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. >|>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. >--- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. > >Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon >ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >-- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro > >
