Make your website with CSS
Muhammad Umar
May 03, 2015
Make your website with CSS
Responsive
design isn’t just about screen size; it also means adapting to different media
- Knowledge needed: Intermediate CSS, basic HTML
- Requires: Text editor, web browser, printer or PDF-generator-as-printer
- Project Time: 2-4 hours
- Support file
Many eons ago, in the long-forgotten
time of table-based web page layouts, web developers had access to a feature of
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that enabled authors to specify a media type. This
media type told the browser when to apply styles to the page – whether for
screen, handheld, or even print.
This was back in 1998: browsers adopted some of these features (such as print) and as time moved on, forward-thinking developers began to make their table-based layouts printable. Some of the page elements were removed in order to save paper and ink, even making adjustments to layouts to better fit a piece of paper at a fixed size.
Today table-based layouts have been nearly replaced with div-based constructs and, for those using the HTML5 specifications, other structural and semantic elements. One of the key benefits of this approach is that CSS is generally being used to define the layout of web pages, enabling more latitude for re flowing and reformatting already-coded pages with only CSS changes.
This flexibility has also led to the rise of responsive web design (RWD), which makes it easier for a web page to adapt to different screen sizes based on CSS using conditional logic. Over the last three years we have seen the development of frameworks, templates, tutorials – and even parodies – that mean developers of nearly any skill level are able to create pages that can adapt themselves to just about any screen size a developer wants to support. Content can re flow; navigation can adjust; elements can shift in size and position; typography tweaks itself – and so on.
This method of building is perfect for enabling a developer to support the printed page with little additional effort. Except for some reason you don’t see many of these resources including or even considering the printed page.
This was back in 1998: browsers adopted some of these features (such as print) and as time moved on, forward-thinking developers began to make their table-based layouts printable. Some of the page elements were removed in order to save paper and ink, even making adjustments to layouts to better fit a piece of paper at a fixed size.
Today table-based layouts have been nearly replaced with div-based constructs and, for those using the HTML5 specifications, other structural and semantic elements. One of the key benefits of this approach is that CSS is generally being used to define the layout of web pages, enabling more latitude for re flowing and reformatting already-coded pages with only CSS changes.
This flexibility has also led to the rise of responsive web design (RWD), which makes it easier for a web page to adapt to different screen sizes based on CSS using conditional logic. Over the last three years we have seen the development of frameworks, templates, tutorials – and even parodies – that mean developers of nearly any skill level are able to create pages that can adapt themselves to just about any screen size a developer wants to support. Content can re flow; navigation can adjust; elements can shift in size and position; typography tweaks itself – and so on.
This method of building is perfect for enabling a developer to support the printed page with little additional effort. Except for some reason you don’t see many of these resources including or even considering the printed page.
Make your website with CSS
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