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By: prestiti

prestiti — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:56:34 +0000

Great article, the problem is that a lot of web-designer still don’t know how to do print-design, we’ve designers that are so good at creating beautiful looking webpages, but when it comes to print on paper..

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:15:05 +0000

@Adam

Try printing the article…

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:34:06 +0000

An interesting article but the final webpage looks nothing like your layout, and in fact requires nothing fancy. It is just a single column with a picture at the top.

By: Charles Roper

Charles Roper — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:17:21 +0000

Ack, it says anchors are allowed! Here’s where the test page is:

http://www.charlesroper.co.uk/test/js/uri-inject/

By: Charles Roper

Charles Roper — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:04:03 +0000

A timely article indeed. I’m about to create print stylesheets for my organisation’s site and this article has given me plenty of inspiration. As luck would have it, I had come across the superb jQuery Javascriptlibrary a couple of days ago, so injecting URIs into the link text for the purpose of a print stylesheet seemed like a good tester. Turns out it’s silly easy. Have a look at this quick test page I knocked up.

By: Igor

Igor — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:56:16 +0000

Great article. I just would like to add if you’re designing on Mac using Dreamweaver 8 and you link print style as /link href/ Safari during preview will render your page using print style,instead of screen (no problems with Firefox) If anyone knows why,please let me know :-). The way around this preview issue in Safari is to import your print style.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:31:07 +0000

How long has the idea of print styles been around? Long enough, I’d have thought. I’ve had them for a while and I’m not a CSS guru (I’m just a fungi!). If I can do it, anyone can.

By: Jake Rutter

Jake Rutter — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:43:25 +0000

Great Article. A few months ago, I finished working on a re-design for dlife.com. One of the major problems that we ran into is the Print this Page element. I have to be honest, it still looks like Sh**. And I think I would like to go back and revisit this page again with tips your presented in your article.

With our audience we face a lot of older users, who like to print everything to read later. I think this would be greatly beneficial to our site and audience.

By: Mark Boulton

Mark Boulton — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:48:21 +0000

Dan: That was the guy I saw at SXSW with Jeremy. I might just try and shoehorn this in.

Steve: This is something Khoi pointed out when I asked him about it recently. ‘Print Versions’ had somewhat become a standard on some sites - almost a convention, some would argue, across the web. My gut feeling, where possible, is to offer both; a print stylesheet and, if you need to a ‘print version’ which looks like the print stylesheet, not a web page.

My experience however shows that a lot of people just hit print rather than searching out the tiny printer icon.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:24:05 +0000

Great article, as always.

I have a print layout request for a site design I just launched and was wondering, do you think the ‘transparent’ solution of a print.css file is preferable to a ‘print version’ link, or is it important the visitor is made aware the enhanced functionality exists via a link/button of some sort?