Been away from posting up here for a bit. Two reasons:
We had a great holiday in Mallorca and I had a lot of catching up to do. Also I have been busy getting started on the rebuild of the school (within our university) home page. Loads more to do on the layouts across the site.
I thought I would share some of the CSS / XHTML issues that have come up. This has been a case of taking other folks work and building on it and making a few changes that seem important to me.
A couple of times recently this has presented a problem and an interesting challenge.
Poets create their work with a view to wanting a particular layout of the words. Some may prefer the lines centred and others left aligned. Some poets may want their poems displayed with the wrapped line (where it is a long line) centred or right aligned.
So what would be the best way to display poems? What have others done to resolve this complex issue?
So as to make this topical and relevant to PageToScreen, I am adding here a few remarks about my experiences in a couple of internet cafes, while trying to keep in touch with projects that are on the go right now.
I sometimes receive text documents with headings or emphasis achieved by using uppercase letters. What can we do about this?
Users of word processors often find sneaky ways to emphasise headings by using bold or increased font sizes. During the import into HTML or CMS we can easily remove these un-wanted styles, or convert them to the most appropriate tags (eg. b becomes strong, i becomes em). Uppercase letters are different though because they have (usually) been typed in using the capital letters on the keyboard.
