From: "Robert E. Anderson" Subject: SLUG Meeting Monday 3/13 7pm: Introduction to CSS Date: Saturday, March 11, 2006 12:33:23 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- Robert E. Anderson email: rea@sr.unh.edu Systems Programmer phone: (603) 862-3489 UNH Research Computing Center fax: (603) 862-1761 -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce