Printing

Even though the web is an electronic medium, some of your site visitors will want to print your pages. Determine what pages will likely be printed by users and focus on making those pages printer-friendly. Design the page to read well and fit on standard-size paper. If you are unable to make your page printer-friendly consider offering a PDF version of the page. Here are some tips for making pages printable.

• Limit the length of tables; break them up where possible. Tables influence page breaks.
• Use stretchable table widths so content fills the viewable page but doesn't get cut off when printing.
• Make sure graphics dimensions don't exceed the "printable area".
• Test for printability if using background graphics.
• Create an unbroken page of related content.
• Don't use light-colored text.
• Spell out hyperlink urls and email addresses as appropriate.
• Include the page url somewhere on your page so that hard-copy users can revisit the page if they so choose.