CSS: User-customisable Site #3 Support

In the previous two tutorials of this series we've built up a web site that uses a CSS layout, carefully structuring the layout, colors and font sizing into stylesheets that can work independently of each other. In the first part of the tutorial we created our base XHTML document and a set of default stylesheets that made up the default look and feel of the web site.

 

Last time we created new stylesheets in order to be able to apply different stylesheets dependent on user preference. To test these stylesheets we had to change which stylesheet was attached in the code, so in this tutorial we will look at how we can develop a system to let the user change and set their stylesheet choices for the site directly from the browser.

 

I will be using a very simple ASP script in order to demonstrate how to create a script to change the stylesheets, however this would be equally easy to develop in any other language.

$2.89
- OR -

Rachel Andrew

Rachel AndrewRachel Andrew is a trained dancer and singer, whose CV lists jobs as diverse as company choreographer for a physical theatre company to chargehand carpenter for “The Mousetrap” at St. Martin’s Theatre in London’s West End. After leaving the theatre when pregnant with her daughter, Rachel started to design sites mainly out of curiosity into how it worked. It didn’t take too long for her to figure out that her skills lay in development as opposed to design and these days she tends to leave the design to designers so she can concentrate on writing code, dismantling computers and installing Linux on anything that stays still long enough.

Rachel has worked in the industry as a webmaster, technical project manager and senior web developer but in September 2001 set up her own company ‘edgeofmyseat.com’, which provides complete web solutions and outsourced development services for design agencies and Internet start-ups who do not have in-house web developers.

As well as managing and doing much of the development on projects for edgofmyseat.com Rachel is a published author and worked as a co-author on the following titles for Glasshaus:

Dynamic Dreamweaver MX ISBN:1904151108
Fundmental Web Design and development Skills: ISBN:1904151175
Dreamweaver MX Design Projects: ISBN:1904151272

Rachel is also a member of the Web Standards Project serving on The Dreamweaver Task Force.

In her spare time Rachel studies for ‘fun’ with the Open University, does family and local history research and spends time with her 5 year old daughter and her other half, Drew McLellan.

See All Postings From Rachel Andrew >>