Last month my Print Stylesheets Tips & Tricks article on Smashing Magazine received an interesting question: what if a user wants to print individually separate sections of a web page?
The questioner gave a good example: a page that presents multiple recipes (those used in the example above supplied by my student Jenelle Bucholz, from her recent 1st year site project). The HTML for the recipes would look something like this:
In my recent article for Smashing Magazine and elsewhere in this blog I have introduced principles and best practices for making print stylesheets, but I’ve found a general lack of information on the CSS print development process. In response, a few production suggestions:
In this author’s humble opinion, most QR Codes are acne in print. However, there are a few places where the ubiquitous digital codes may be appropriate, even useful… one of those being CSS print stylesheets.
Previously I’ve shown how to add visible URLs after links on printed web pages. While this works, the technique requires the reader to type in the supplied URL manually. If we provide a QR code instead, the user can easily scan the digital information from the printed page and go directly to the link, as shown below:
