Booster Conference Slides: Making Your Site Printable

I’ll fill this up with notes and other content later, but in the meantime here are the slides from my talk this morning:

I’ve written a bunch of handy stuff on print styles, here are some links (or you can see all posts tagged print on my blog) along with other resources (most of this is referenced in my slides):

• PrintShame and the Zurb print styles update June 27, 2014.
• More Evidence of the Need for Print Styles, April 6, 2012.
• The example page/site from my slides (which may go away once our next site design comes out).
• Replacing images when printing, May 14, 2013.
• Printing from Mobile Has Improved, June 30, 2014.
• Tracking When Users Print Pages, March 26, 2013.
• Tracking Printed Pages (or How to Validate Assumptions), December 11, 2013.
• Make your website printable with CSS, posted online March 5, 2013.
• Calling QR in Print CSS Only When Needed, March 8, 2013.
• Tracking When Users Print Pages, March 26, 2013.
• Tips And Tricks For Print Style Sheets, March 8, 2013.
• Printing The Web, March 25, 2013.
• CSS Paged Media Level 2
• CSS Paged Media Module Level 3
• Proposals for the future of CSS Paged Media
• Can you typeset a book with CSS?

The Twitters

Booster had a lot of activity on Twitter (not just about my talk, imagine that). I’ve collected some of the tweets below.

How about this: not 1 but 2 evolters speaking at @boosterconf today! Give a big Bergen welcome to @aardrian and @martinburnssv!

— evolt_org (@evolt_org) March 11, 2015

If your site doesn't support the printer it's not responsive. @aardrian #booster2015 #RWD

— Tin Kadoic (@tinkadoic) March 11, 2015

I can guarantee you that people print your site more often than they click your carousel! @aardrian #booster2015

— Regine Sagstad Berg (@reginesagstad) March 11, 2015

#booster2015 lightning talks ⚡️ from @aardrian, @ramyo, @hallvaren & @sivmhollup. pic.twitter.com/UYdIrIwLJe

— Elisabeth Irgens (@elisabethirg) March 11, 2015

@aardrian Responsive also means printable. Loving #booster2015 already!

— Siv Midtun Hollup (@sivmhollup) March 11, 2015

“…after more than a decade of support for print styles, (@RWD advocates) still forget…” http://t.co/maGjWh66BP ht @elisabethirg @aardrian

— David G. Smith (@iDGS) March 11, 2015

While Opera chose not to greet me upon my arrival in Norway, somebody must have sent former employee @lasmagnu to chat at dinner.

— Adrian Roselli (@aardrian) March 11, 2015

Open space at #booster2015 run #leancoffee stylee, with @ourfounder @jrothman @mattbarcomb @aardrian @andrev & others pic.twitter.com/dWGcGd7V77

— Martin Burns (@MartinBurnsSV) March 12, 2015

Feedback (Added 26 March 2015)

I got feedback from my talk, and it was overwhelmingly positive. Consider mine was the first lightning talk of the first session of the first day immediately after the keynote, I’m just pleased people took a moment to vote.

Voting consisted of asking attendees to drop a colored card into a basket representing my talk. There were three options. I got 15 green cards (it was amazing), 4 yellow cards (it was okay), and no red cards (I didn’t like it).

Only one person left a comment, which was Talked too fast. I cannot disagree with that. With 10 minutes to cover 42 slides and do so to an audience of non-native English speakers, I’m thrilled I only received that comment once (though I suspect many others agreed).

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