[thelist] Designing with different text size in mind

[Aaron Wormus]

Greetings all! I just signed up to thelist, so this will be my first email!

I am not a designer, I like playing with CSS, but my eye for design is 
not very good, as portrayed by my most recent blog design. 
http://www.wormus.com/aaron/.

I tried to make the layout tight so that I can use the space for links, 
and while it's not the most "pretty" (ok, it's ugly), it works for me :)

As soon as I posted it I got a lot of feedback from my IE readers (I use 
Firebird), saying how terrible it looks. I did test it in IE and while 
there were a few glitches that I was going to get around to fixing, it 
didn't look TOO much different from Firebird.

When I went to their computer I saw that they had the "Text Size" in 
their browser set to "Larger" when I had mine set to "Medium". This 
little change totally screwed up my text based layout. My question: Is 
there anyway to get around this (short of making a graphic based design) 
if you want to make a pixel perfect layout?

I hope some of you will have time to chat about this, as I'm a bit 
perplexed :)

Happy New Year,
Aaron