Summary


As important as designing flexibility into the visual aspects of your Web page, ensuring the page's integrity under a variety of scenarios can help bulletproof its content. By testing your page in the absence of images and CSS, you'll make sure that its content is still readable under unanticipated circumstances.

Bulletproof tools such as favelets, browser toolbars, and validation help ease the process of that testing and provide a nondisruptive and simple way to prepare your designs for a multitude of scenarios.

Here are a few things to keep in mind:

  • Routinely use the "10-second usability test" to check your page's readability in the absence of images and/or CSS. Familiarize yourself with how your design reacts to the various states it could find itself in.

  • Remember to specify background color equivalents for any background images you're including in your designs. Users who turn images off or who have slow connections will still be able to read your pages.

  • Use favelets and/or browser toolbars to make the process quick and easy; include this step in your everyday workflow.

  • Embrace validation during the design phase as a way to eliminate head-scratching errors from ruining your afternoon.



Bulletproof Web Design(c) Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS
Bulletproof Web Design(c) Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS
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Year: 2006
Pages: 97

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