Venetsian Jakimov

Entrepreneur, Website Developer and SEO Expert

Venetsian.com is goes for Print Optimized Table-Less CSS Design

Recently while I was browsing Amazon dot com I stumbled upon a new book by somebody called Dan Cederholm with the dull name Web Standards Solutions – The Markup and Style Handbook. As you can realize that was a guide book by the W3C standards for XHTML and future compatible/utilizable web design.

It didn‘t take me long to put it in my shopping cart and have it in about a week at my office. That book was very well organized and easy to read (especially if you already have some web design knowledge) and it took be about seven hours to read the whole 250 pages. Sweet!...

This book was accenting on the current trends in multimedia access to website content via mobile devices like telephones, PDA‘s and other "up to come" high tech toys. Also the book was describing some well known problems like table-less design (as pro designers say "tables are only for used for spreadsheets and have nothing to do with web design" and they are quite right on that one) and another very important to company and ecommerce type of websites – website print-ability. Have you ever tried to print some websites and due to poor structuring of text and using enormous amount of tables the printout gets so scattered and most of the time the text is cut on the right side. Those problems got me thinking on how I can improve my websites and make them really cool looking and in the same time printable and table-less therefore I sat down in front of my favorite Dell Inspiron 9300 and started brainstorming and editing CSS files.

Not long (approximately 5 hours later) I was ready with perfect almost Strict XHTML but I kept it Transitional in order to be compatible with the old content (otherwise I have to update all the other pages and this it not a thing that I‘m going to bother with for now). The new template is almost 99% CSS only and the html template is only 10 lines of code which is awesome and gives virtually unlimited capabilities for creative designers to express themselves.

Also I started working on the Print Style but I‘m not sure if I‘m going to be able to finish it today because I have to go out walk the dog. I‘m not joking, otherwise its not going to let me sleep and that‘s vital for the human survival.

I hope you will enjoy the new look of my homepage.

Cheers

Venetsian