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CSS Manager

The CSS Manager component for Interaction facilitates efficient design and management of the presentation style of dynamic websites. The component allow you to design the styles using a dialog in Interaction, and will dynamically adds the styles to all pages of the website. If you don't have a Mac website, see Cascade (a stand-alone Cascading Style Sheets editor) for an alternative.

The CSS Manager adds an Style Sheet item to the Windows menu of Interaction. Selecting it gives an editor dialog to edit the style sheet for the site.

The dialog allows you to set font styles, background and foreground colors, text properties, element placement, and other presentational aspect of a page. The style is automatically applied to any html page provided by Interaction. More granularity and control will be provided with upcoming versions of the Style Sheet component.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet mechanism that has been specifically developed to meet the needs of Web designers and users. It is a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium and enjoys wide industry backing. A CSS style sheet can set fonts, colors, white space and other presentational aspects of a document while still maintaining flexibility and adaptability to make your site optimally accessible. Cascading Style Sheets are supported by web browsers such as Internet Explorer 3.0 and later, Netscape Navigator 4.0 , and the Emacs-w3 browser.

Installing the CSS Manager Component

  1. Download the CSS Manager archive.
  2. Unstuff the archive (most browsers will do this for you).
  3. Find the appropriate version of the component in the folder that best matches your version of Interaction.
  4. Put the component file in the Components folder of Interaction
  5. Restart Interaction to activate the component.

Note that the CSS Manager already is integrated in Interaction 2.0! Thus, you shouldn't install the component if you use Interaction 2.0 or later.

You may want to install the Interaction Stylizer as well so that older browsers that doesn't support CSS also benefit from the style sheet.

News & Press

Style Sheet Resources

Cascade
A stand-alone Cascading Style Sheets editor for Macintosh.
Press clippings
A list of Articles in magazines such as HotWired, PCWeek, and InfoWorld about Cascading Style Sheets.
What's wrong with the FONT element?
Why using the <FONT> tag when authoring is a bad idea.
Life on the Bleeding Edge: Style Sheets
Explains why style sheets will help to avoid the dead end of netscapeism.
W3C Recommendations Reduce 'World Wide Wait
Cascading Style Sheets combined with HTTP 1.1 and PNG can make the web 2-8 times faster.
Developing Compelling Content for the Internet
Marc Andreessen introduces Cascading Style Sheets as part of the Dynamic HTML capabilities of Netscape Communicator.
HTML and Style Sheets
W3C Working Draft for the style sheet recommendation (technical).

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