We had our website built by a web designer and although we are pretty pleased with the result, we are having one major problem. When printing any page on the site the output/layout is very strange and basically makes it useless to print. I do understand that a website is intended to be electronic but executives at my firm are simply asking why our site does this and is this a common thing ( I can't think of any site that has a similar problem). Upon asking our designer about the issue they responded with this:
<<email from designer>>
Unfortunately, this is not a trivial change as it relates to developing with standards compliant HTML vs. non-standards compliant HTML. Your site is done using standards compliant html, which places images that are not used for decoration or content (navigation, logo, etc.) as background images. These types of images do not print when you print a web page. The site you referenced earlier is not using standards compliant html and all images are referenced in the HTML. There are a lot of reasons for doing this the way that we do. 1) Search Engine Optimization 2) Scalability 3) Flexibility for future changes.
In order to achieve the print view that you see on the other site, it would take us at least 4 days to update the code on MGO. That is $4000.00 and probably not worth it (in my opinion). We can work with the current print styles to enhance it by doing some of the following.
1) Add the logo to each page
2) Address Typography (Font face, size, spacing, line height, etc.)
That would likely take about a day to make some adjustments and get the print output looking better. My recommendation would be to move forward with some easier adjustments to the existing print styles rather than re-code the site to get pixel perfect output.
<<end of email from designer>>
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