[Webpro] Design Opinions

[Rick Pasotto]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 07:29:21PM -0400, Jeanne wrote:
> In regards to www.tech-ease.net/v2/ Rick Pasotto wrote:
>  
> > > 3. Remove the content box from the background image and 
> > create a vertically
> > > expandable div to match the current design.
> > > 
> > > Opinions? Pros, cons?
> > 
> > #3 is the best option. Your site breaks horribly now when I resize the
> > text to something readable.
> 
> Which means to say that I also might consider increasing my font size to
> something "readable" ;-) Very good points in both cases... I upped the font
> size to 11px but didn't like the look of 12px. I think at some point we have
> to trust that the visually impared use a browser where they can increase the
> size of the font and suffer the asthetic consequences. Interestingly, IE6
> (WinXP) wouldn't resize my text, but Netscape would.

The primary font size should always be 1em (or 100%). That is the size
that the *user* prefers. Variations from that base font for special
cases like menus and headers should be similarly proportional. If you do
that then it won't matter what the user's resolution or window size is,
your site will still look good. Also, I've read that IE doesn't resize
when fonts are specified in px.

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