I’m a stats freak.
I’ll check out my stats for elliotswan.com several times a day, and I’ll check the stats for my other sites now and then as well. If you own a site, I’m sure you love looking through your stats too. Whatever your reason, be it for fun, money, or pure ego, admit it—your site’s stats are quite helpful and just plain fun to look through.
How many times have your printed a website only to realize that the content portion of the page doesn’t fit? Or 80% of the page being taken up by ads, headers, and other ink intensive items you wish weren’t there? In this article we will be discussing how to prevent these headaches from your visitors. We spend hours agonizing over how our sites look on the screen, why wouldn’t we spend a few moments getting it to look stellar on paper too?
Setting it Apart
First step to the path of print happiness is that of learning to access the print style. There are two ways that I suggest to do this. Either way will let you specify elements to specify style specific to the printed page.
Images are an important part of a web site. And there are so many formats to save your images in that it can be quite confusing as to which format to use.
GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) has been the web’s default image for many years. This is traditionally used for images that are flat colors in nature and rather simple. GIF is best used on logos, buttons, bars, backgrounds, and other simple graphics.
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is the standard format for photos that are used on the internet. Use this format for all of your photos, small or large. There are 16.7 million colors available with JPEG and a good compression rate as well.