Real-life Examples of Style Sheets
- Webreference.com Guide
to Cascading Style Sheets. Employs a linked style sheet, inline styles,
absolute positioning, drop caps, fonts, color, indents. It looks a little
odd without style sheets, but it's still readable.
- Index DOT css. An
excellent reference site for cascading style sheets. Uses CSS for consistent
fonts, colors, etc. Degrades gracefully to browsers that support tables but
not CSS.
- Positive Propaganda.
This weekly web magazine uses style sheets and dynamic fonts to put the emphasis
on content. Style sheets make it easy to create a consistent look for the
site. The author indicates that 60%-70% of his audience uses version 4 browsers.
He also uses XML to write reviews of web sites, and hopes to eventually use
it to keep track of broken links.
- The Alertbox: Current Issues in
Web Usability. Another example of using style sheets to maintain consistency
in a newsletter. Style sheets give the newsletter a distinctive look without
interfering with the content. Looks great without style sheets as well.
- Web Page Repair:
Designing for Multiple Browsers Without Being Bland, an essay by Stephen
Traub. Without CSS, it's kind of bland, but readable. Add CSS, and it gains
pizzazz, but becomes less readable because of the column format (it becomes
necessary to scroll both up and down to read the text).
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