About

This webpage is dedicated to clean and simple webdesigns. What exactly makes a clean and simple webdesign? Most importantly C&S (clean and simple webdesigns) focus on delivering content. Content is text, data and figures. C&S scales automatically well on different devices, different resolutions and different screen orientations. This is due to the fact that no positional tricks are used as well as no (dirty) CSS hacks or tricks. With C&S we also respect the user's settings giving him adequate power over how the page looks fine on his machine. Some users opt for specific font settings and we are not going to override those. C&S also does not rely on JavaScript for functionality.

If you want to look at a few examples of mine: My examples. You may contact me through contact |at| mroman #dot# ch. If you want to use one of my layouts/designs feel free as long as you provide a visible backlink back to this site on your site.

Guidelines

Don't specify a font size, let the user decide what an acceptable and readable font size is.

Don't specify a font, only specify font-family. Let the user decide what font looks readable to him.

Try to keep HTML as semantic as possible. Don't just introduce new stuff that only serves display purposes. Focus content!

Don't use JavaScript unless absolutely necessary. Fancy effects don't count as necessary. Displaying ads doesn't count as necessary. Having a drop-down menu doesn't count as necessary.

Never ever use overlays. Overlays just plain suck.

Specify sizes relative to font-size (that is: use em) or relative to window size (although relative to font-size is preferred).

Keep CSS and page size minimal. Don't use large CSS-frameworks when all you need is a few CSS rules. Don't use large JavaScript frameworks when all you need is a bit of document.getElementById(...)....