Styling Concepts

There is a huge diversity in design styles used by web sites on the Internet. This diversity is achieved by using a variety of techniques that include embedded images, style rules called CSS and browser code written in javascript. The individual techniques and their interaction is a potentially very complex matter especially when the idiosyncrasies of different browsers and browser versions is also considered.

We have tried to simplify matters so that a lay user can reasonably confidently style their own site. This simplification consists of structuring the internals of the site in particular way and providing in Webframe Studio an easy-to-use user interface for styling.

It is true that this approach means that some design details cannot be achieved but we strongly believe that the great majority of aspirations are met and putting web site owners in control is in itself a considerable advantage that more than compensates.

Webframe Studio comes with a Style Editor which provides a user interface to the various artefacts of styling such as fonts, colours, borders and so on. Internally this generates the necessary CSS rules and applies these to the appropriate elements. These internal operations are invisible to the Webframe Studio user.

Styling is applied to webframe web site structural elements. These are the panels that make up the layout of the site, the menus, the page indices, and the pages. Of these, the latter, pages, are styled in Microsoft Word using Word’s extensive and familiar features – all the rest are styled using Webframe Studio’s Style Editor.