Improved Printing of ExploreLearning.com Pages

During a recent trip to Albemarle High School with the digicam to catch some footage of "teacher and students and Gizmos in action," one of the things I noticed was that not only was the teacher printing out quite a few EL pages for use in her class but also that print quality on the pages was poor. And by poor I mean that there was all sorts of junk —— navigation buttons, search boxes, login buttons — appearing on the printed page and making it look cluttered and difficult to use.

I'm happy to say that this problem is now I fixed. I took sometime this week to write and apply a print-specific style sheet to all ExploreLearning.com pages. (Previously, only the Exploration Guides were getting the special print treatment.) So now if you're using a so-called "modern" browser (i.e., IE6, Fire Fox, Safari) you'll get a much cleaner and readable printed page.

If you ever dabble with your own web pages and want to know more about print style sheets, I highly recommend this article from CSS guru Eric Meyer: Going to Print.