Got a Print Version of Your Site?
A gallery that only cares about what your site looks like when it’s printed? Ironic, but that’s what printFancy is all about. Remember those niche design inspiration galleries? This site is obviously another example of that. But that’s not all.
Unfortunately, the fact remains that people still print webpages so they can read them in a more comfortable manner; it’s not very environment-friendly, and frankly, weird behavior to people who are in front of the computer 24/7. (Weirder than using IE6.) But it’s a web designer’s responsibility to accommodate that need. No excuses. Even if sometimes, it does feel like creating a whole other website (except if you’re a minimalist, I guess).
And when you manage to create an effective print version of a site, then printFancy is another opportunity to show it off, another incentive to excel in design. Which is not just about creating something looks pretty, but something that fills a need. In this case, the need to print sites out.
(Then maybe the gallery can have a section like this, and one wouldn’t have to hold a laptop the way Jason Santa Maria did.)
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I don’t print sites to read them, but I do very often use the print view/print version to read things onscreen. Especially in cases where a site insists on splitting articles up into multiple pages or is formatted in a way that is annoying to read. So put me down as pro-”print versions”
By Darcy on October 22, 2009 12:32 am
If ur site (blog\portal\etc) looks really good, then it’ll be cute on paper. If we’ll print wisdump.com – i think we’ll got such a “newspaper-style” paper sheet.
By Bookworm Jahz on March 14, 2010 6:14 am
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