[thelist] The Site's up -- What do you think?
Felix Miata
mrmazda at ij.net
Tue Feb 28 01:00:50 CST 2006
On 06/02/27 17:48 Rachell Coe apparently typed:
> I've finally finished the design (thank you guys so much) and have it up at
> http://www.4thegrapes.com/index.htm -- what do you think?
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/rachec1.jpg
Quite attractive. Too small text. Note in the screenshot the significant
difference in size between your page's P text and the size that works
best for me (28px, ~12pt).
If you're going to size text in pt, you need to be aware of the problems
caused by doing so. First, IE users cannot resize your text with their
browser's text resizer widget, and that amounts to poor accessibility.
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/accessibility.html
file:///G|/WWW/auth/defaultsize.html
Second, You've specified the largest commonly available web font as
first choice, but smaller fonts as alternates. As common as it is,
Verdana is neither universally installed, nor universally liked.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html If you must
specify font-families for ordinary content P text, and for this very
reason it's best not to, the only suitable comparably large size
alternates for Verdana I'm aware of are DejaVu Sans, and Bitstream Vera
Sans. but you've used the noticably smaller Arial, and the erratic but
typically smaller Helvetica.
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/images/fonts-comps-verdariahelv.png
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-comps-verdariahelv.html
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/images/font-verdvhelve.html
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/font-verd-v-helve.html
Third, studies have shown users overwhelmingly prefer 12pt to 10pt.
Examples can be found at
http://psychology.wichita.edu/optimalweb/text.htm and
http://www.unc.edu/~jkullama/inls181/final/font.html Elsewhere you can
see your 10pt choice is the recommended minimum, the size below which no
text on a page should go. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020819.html
Fourth, in addition to the non-resizability problem for IE users, pt
simply shouldn't be used for sizing screen media text. First, it
disregards user preferences.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/fontsize.html Second, pt sizes
depend on DPI, which is almost never correctly configured on personal
computers, leading to unpredictable rendered sizes that typically have
little relationship to what users want or the size the author thinks
will result. http://hsivonen.iki.fi/units/
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