CopyStyler : Web design by example

• Main Author: Fitzgerald, Michael J., M. Eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Other Authors: Robert C. Miller.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2009
• Subjects: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/46032

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2008. === Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-68). === 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. === by Mitchael J. Fitzgerald. === M.Eng.