Page Breaks
OK, here's a tricky one. I read a site that stated you should make a point of incorporating page breaks into your printable pages. As far as I can think, there are two basic methods of getting the page breaks. The first is to design your printable pages and then add "white space" where the page would naturally break.
You can get the effect by adding <BR> commands where the page would naturally break. Just keep checking your work in the Print Preview sections of Netscape and Internet Explorer. I tried it. You'll have to add a little extra space where the page breaks, but it's not that hard to get.
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The second method is to use the Style Sheet page-break-after format. This is actually the lesser of the two choices in that it only works in Internet Explorer. Plus it's difficult to set it to break at a certain point rather than just at a heading format. They have an entire tutorial on it:
http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/beyond/css_print.html
So which do you use? Well, in all honesty, unless the page breaks really matter, neither. I don't know that page breaks are overly important. The only real concerns are if an important section is disrupted by a page break or if the page break format is crucial to the format (like a manuscript or book format).
If the page breaks are that important to the piece, then maybe you'll want to offer the piece as a download in WORD or as an Adobe Acrobat format.
If you do decide to go with the page breaks and don't want the WORD or Adobe format, I would suggest the creation of white space is your best bet.
Good luck,
Rhody Morrow
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