On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Kym Costanzo wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Kym Costanzo wrote:
> Could you be more specific about the HTML errors? I did validate the HTML, > but the only errors I got were regarding the drop-down menu that I am asking > for help with. I can't fix those, as I don't know what I can do differently > with that menu. The validation errors have to do with the IE6 hack. Again > the menu was one I got from a resource site. If you feel that I need to find > a new menu, say so. (sure, coding my own would be better. I'm working on > learning how to do that but just not there yet.) There were 12 errors at validator.w3.org. > Regarding your question about making the page too small for you to read, I > am open to any teaching you wish to offer. As I learned CSS, I read over and > over that the "right" way to size fonts is to set the page font size to > 62.5% and then increase using ems. I am using a browser resolution of > 1280x1024 and the font size I am using is 1.4em, which I felt was a suitable > size, and to me, looks comparable to fonts on other sites I see. But if this > is not the "right" way to do it, I'm open to hearing what is. When I was learning CSS I read over and over that setting the font size to 62.5% was not only wrong, but the technique was thoroughly ridiculed. The correct size is 100%, i.e., the user's preferred font size. -- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfajohnson.com> =================================================================== Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005, Apress) Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell (2009, Apress) ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
