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 Web Design - Good and Bad Practice |
| Part Twelve |
| Hard Copy What do the pages on your site look like when they are printed out? Try it. You may be in for a surprise. You might want hard copy because it makes it easier to design and edit your pages. Just like an advertising layout. It gives co-workers and customers a way to view and comment on your pages. You can print out information rather than writing it down. You can build a portfolio of your work to use in sales presentations or for advertising. Your visitors can print out a hard copy of the information on your site for later reference. If you're using tables to control the layout of your page, they will also have an effect on printing. You can add some control to how the pages print. When printing, the browser may begin a new page if a table won't fit on the current page (just as it would with an image). Judicious use of tables can force page breaks when the document prints out. But be sure to test this with different browsers. If your browser has a "Page Preview" option, you can use this to get a preliminary idea of how your pages will print. If your page has a lot of browser-specific code, it may not print out properly if the visitor has a different browser. If your page has a black or coloured background, it may not print properly. If your page uses an image for the background, it will probably print without the background. If your page uses frames, it probably won't print correctly. But the biggest surprise awaits those whose ultra-chic pages have black or dark backgrounds with white or light coloured text. |