Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets November 5, 2007

The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter, happens the first Monday of most months at the New Hampshire Technical Institute's Library, room 146, at 7 PM. Next month's meeting is on November 5th at 7 PM. Directions and maps are available at http://www.centralug.org Open to the public. Free admission. Tell your friends.

At this meeting, Ted Roche will be presenting an introduction to
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the modern way of applying style and
layout to HTML web pages.

About the presentation: Cascading Style Sheets are a way to separate the content and structure of a web page from the stylistic elements. This allows:
- the style to be changed without changing the content
- better accessibility for folks with visual impairments
- better processing by search engines
- ease of maintenance by letting designers and content
producers to work in parallel

In this session, Ted will show why separating CSS from HTML makes sense, and how to do it. He'll review the basics of what CSS is, how the
elements are combined, what 'cascade' refers to, and how to use CSS to specify layout using the CSS box model. He'll finish up with some
suggestions on tools to use and references for further study.

About Ted: Ted is a principal in Ted Roche and Associates, LLC, a Contoocook-based consulting company concentrating in database-centric web-based and rich-client applications for small and medium businesses. More information on his company is available at http://www.tedroche.com.

Future Meetings: December: David Berube on Ruby, January: Bruce Dawson on low-power Linux computers

As always, meetings are subject to change. You are encouraged to join
the low-traffic announcement list at http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce to get announcement and cancellation information.

Official Website: http://www.centralug.org