Advance Program - Tutorial

12. Styling the New Web: Web Usability with Style Sheets

Sunday, 08:30 - 17:00

Instructor
Steven Pemberton, CWI, The Netherlands

Benefits
You will learn how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to style the presentation of pages using HTML, XHTML (the new HTML) and XML, and how this helps usability. Emphasis is on the structuring of documents, and why using CSS is essential for usability, including accessibility for the elderly and sight impaired, device independence, reduced download times, and increased user preferences.

Origins
The tutorial is based on tutorials given several times, and has been updated for developing material within W3C.

Features
All of CSS1, the level currently best implemented, is handled, as well as much of CSS2, and how to find out more. Details of what to expect in CSS3 will be given.

Audience
The tutorial is for people who want to learn about new developments in Web technology, and how to apply them. They should have a working knowledge of how to write HTML.

Presentation
The tutorial will be given in alternating sessions of 45 minutes lecture, 45 minutes hands-on experience.

The Instructor
Steven Pemberton is a researcher at the CWI, Amsterdam, currently involved in research on usability of web-based services. He has been involved with the Web from the start, organizing two workshops at the first WWW conference in 1994, and chairing the first Style Sheets Workshop in 1995. He is a member of the CSS working group, and chair of the HTML working group.

He has given Tutorials on CSS and XHTML several times before. He is editor-in-chief of ACM/interactions.