SLUG Meeting Monday 3/13 7pm: Introduction to CSS

Robert E. Anderson rea at q.sr.unh.edu
Sat Mar 11 12:33:01 EST 2006


Who:   All are welcome to attend.

What:  Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

When:  Monday, March 13 at 7:00pm 

Where: Morse Hall rm 301 (Directions available on http://slug.gnhlug.org) 


Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets

The web has evolved a lot since it's inception.  Originally content
was static text with a few images where necessary.

Todays web is:
  * graphically rich
  * mostly dynamic content
  * full of fairly complex user interaction

The result is that web pages are harder to maintain and use, much more
thought must be put into the design.  Dynamic content imposes a much
higher load on the server's resources than static content ever did.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are one step toward a solution.  CSS
allows a web server to focus on content and leave the final HTML
markup to the clients browser.  CSS also has hooks that allow the end
user to re-skin the provided content, giving the user more display
choices.  Normal web content is made to be displayed on a graphical
screen, CSS provides that while offering hooks to handle printers, and
PDA/phone devices differently.

The talk will cover:
  * some examples of CSS
  * Some online documentation resources
  * A few Linux tools that can help the process
  * One complete example web application with multiple skins


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 Robert E. Anderson  		 	email: rea at sr.unh.edu
 Systems Programmer			phone: (603) 862-3489
 UNH Research Computing Center		  fax: (603) 862-1761
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