CREATING PRINTER FRIENDLY PAGES - Aug 6th, 2010

Thanks to Kevin B. for this find. He said: I have found the best way to make your website 'Printer Friendly' is to create a CSS stylesheet for printing. This has worked very well for the sites I have designed. You create ONE stylesheet as opposed to TWO versions of EACH web page or document you want to be able to print and worrying about linking to the second 'print version'. You set the elements which you do not want to be printed (say your menu or background, etc.) to 'display:none' Try a Google search on 'css print styles' and you will find tons of info. A great starting point would be here: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/goingtoprint/ Jake offered another solution. He said: Another technique to set up a printer-friendly page in CMS Builder would be to create a new viewer page with a scaled-back design to accommodate printing. You can link to this printer-friendly page from your regular page by creating a link like this, so that the page's record number is passed along: <a href="/path/to/printer_friendly.php<?PHP echo $record['num'] ?>">Printer-friendly Page</a>

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