Raggett's Stylesheets

This page definitely got saved for future use. Actually, I might just make a shortcut to it on my desktop right now...

External stylesheets are used very often for web designs that have the same format throughout multiple pages - it makes a code cleaner, and also saves a lot of time for a web developer. They can not be used on Internet Explorer 4.0 or Netscape 4.0 (although, the chances of finding a user that has those browsers anymore would be rare).

The browser safe pallet is extremely useful. I have noticed that when I have developed some pages, the colors that I have used will show up much different than others. While I have tried them on different monitors (which also needs to be taken into consideration), they still showed up weird. This was because the browser that I was using did not support that color type, so it chose another.

I thought the section on colorblindness was especially important. I brought this up in a class of mine last semester that a lot of people did not think about, but while creating anything with graphics (even user documents), a designer really needs to be aware of the fact that a lot of their users might be colorblind. For instance, they might see the difference between red and yellow, but not green and blue - so things will blend together and they will be unattracted to your site.

Also, for those of you out there who are also into IT (yup, I'm one of those nerds) this site is incredibly useful  http://browsershots.org/ It allows you to enter a website URL and test which browsers it is compatible on based on operating system.