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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