October17 Media

The other day I was meeting a business colleague at a Starbucks in downtown Vancouver (We’ll call her Suzy). Suzy specified the meeting location and when I got to our meeting spot (10 minutes early, of course!) Suzy was no where to be found and there wasn’t a Starbucks in site! So, what did I do?

I yanked my iphone from my bag and:

1. Used Google maps to find the closest Starbucks according to my locations. Then I utilized the GPS function to plan a route to the Starbucks.

2. Since Suzy isn’t a regular client, I didn’t have her phone number in my iphone. I used Safari on my iphone to find her company’s website and then located the contact page. I called her office and got her cell phone number from the receptionist.
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How does your website look?
It looks perfect, doesn’t it? All fits perfectly within your computer screen. Well, it should, it’s been designed specifically to look great when viewed on a computer.

But what happens when you print out a page from your site?

Does it print all those heavy graphics and use up expensive ink? Why are you letting it do that? You know it annoys people! Don’t worry, it is an easy fix with CSS style sheets. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a simple mechanism for adding styles (e.g. fonts, colours, spacing) to Web documents.

Bottom line:
You can pre-determine what your website will look like when it gets printed. You can specify a nice white margin space, choose the size of header text and even what’s on the page that’s not to be printed. (more…)