Print Styles for a Press Release
If there’s one kind of Web page that is likely to be printed out, it’s a press release. If you’ve been through Project 2, you know we’ve already created a press release style for the Web. In this section, we’ll take the end result of that project and modify the screen style sheet for print.
Checking Our Status
A quick check of the end result of Project 2 (see Figure 6.10) shows us that what we have is already fairly close to a print style sheet. The main point of concern here is that the design uses colors and a background image, as we can see in Listing 6.3.
Figure 6.10. The press release as styled for the screen.
Listing 6.3. The Press Release’s Stylesheet
<style type="text/css"> body ... |
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