Ariadne's Web: Strategies on Improved Use of Style Sheets

Also see Considerations on Building Sites for Use with Multiple Browsers.

This site (Poetry at Ariadne's Web) uses style sheets. It intends to follow these style sheet guidelines:

Pages are still legible if a user choses to disable style sheets.
The site's style sheet doesn't attempt to override any user style sheet.
The site uses only one style sheet, for uniformity of the appearance of pages on this site.
A linked style sheet is used. This is an external file where changes need be made only once.
Relative (not absolute) font sizes are used.
The style sheet includes more rules than the minimum needed to be street legal. This helps some of the older browsers, which don't have a grip on the cascading aspect of CSS. In particular, this may occur when a page includes an HTML table.

Related pages:
Poetry index. Books on How to Read. Books on How to Write. How to Listen. How to Write - A Recipe.

How to write specific forms: Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Tanka.

Books of Poetry Form.

Resources:

HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition by Elizabeth Castro.
How to code HTML and create efficient web pages.
Step-by-step instructions and screenshots.
Text formatting, page layout, creating links, applying styles, and adding tables and forms.
Includes XHTML syntax and web pages for mobile devices.

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos.
Learn all about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the easy and manageable way to add style and layout to Web pages.
Perfect introduction for beginners. Fully informative for the more experienced designer.
Many helpful color screen shots, diagrams, examples. Clear, detailed, and uncluttered presentation.
Easy to read and learn about CSS (levels 1 and 2), HTML, and XML.
Author Håkon Wium Lie originated CSS.
Bert Bos is a key member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where he has focused on style sheets and the Extensible Markup Language (XML).

Additional resources recommended by Kat Momoi:

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