Moira Ashleigh wrote: > >My website http://webmarksonline.com looks fine in pretty much all the > >browsers that I have tested on the PC. > You have other problems when you increase the font size in any > browser. The design doesn't play well. > There have been several sites I have looked at in the last week that > have blown out by just increasing the font size. I think it is a > weakness of how we are perceiving CSS as a tool. > So my question to other designers and CSS gurus here is - what does > it take to make a website work well with font size increase?
It takes a different mindset than that used for publishing on paper. http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/good_oil/not_paper/ The web is an inherently fluid medium. http://www.digital-web.com/articles/fluid_thinking/ > Not setting hard coded widths for columns? It's more than that. Hard coding any size is antithetical to fluidity. Setting widths alone may be OK, but heights, particularly line-heights, can be a very big problem. Broken browsers routinely ignore insufficient height settings, but standards-compliant ones won't, the same as with widths. > Is it not using fonts on a background image? If the image is compatible with text positioned anywhere, it should be no problem. But a BG image with large expanses of widely contrasting colors is only going to support particularly colored text in particular locations, and that will usually break when the text size is changed more than a little. > Not trying to lay text on tab images? That's like trying to shove water into a funnel backwards or push a rope. It's a fragile process, easily broken by zoom. OTOH, CSS can simulate a tab image and be sized relative to the text. > Other things? Give up any notion that your work needs to look "the same" on every UA. Full function regardless of UA (non-discrimination) should be goal #1. -- "If you love your children, you will be prompt to discipline them." Proverbs 13:24 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
