CopyStyler : Web design by example
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Fitzgerald, Michael J., M. Eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/46032/367597737-MIT.pdf.jpg?sequence=5&isAllowed=y)
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Web design by example
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Robert C. Miller.
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This thesis describes the design and implementation of CopyStyler, a tool to enable novice web users to style their own web pages by emulating the style of existing pages on the Web. The tool is implemented as a browser extension on Firefox, created using Chickenfoot. The tool lays the user's page and the page they wish to emulate side by side, and the user uses a custom selection process to define which page styles he would like to copy and which page elements he would like to change. The tool was evaluated on a variety of web pages and structures, as well as with a variety of users. This thesis also proposes additions to CopyStyler that could be created to enhance its ability in other areas of style copying.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68).
Date issued
2008Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.