On Oct 27, 2011, at 8:40 AM, David Laakso wrote:

> Somewhere along the line you decided that you wanted to make h1, h2, and the 
> content block flush left to a drop-line from your the left-side of your name 
> in the header. all well and good.
> A few days latter you decided you wanted to add a menu flush left to the 
> outermost container, adjacent to the h1, h2, content block: all well and 
> good. Or, is it?
> 
> *When you added the menu,*
> 1/  you neglected to consider its longest list-item
> 2/  consequently, the menu might be better if it were wider
> 3/ and if were wider then obviously that would mean that h1, h2, and the 
> content block would no longer work set flush left to a drop-line from your 
> the left-side of your name in the header.
> 
> What to do?
> 1/ Make the menu wider so it does not look as though its been squeezed in 
> there with a crow-bar.
> 2/ Reset the width /and/ positioning method of h1, h2, and the content block 
> so they are no longer set flush left to a drop-line from your the left-side 
> of your name in the header.
> 3/ Test your pages and the content of those pages from here to eternity with 
> and without font scaling and with and without a minimum font-size greater 
> than default set in the prefs


squeezed in with a crow-bar? Yipes!! I'll revisit that. from the sound of your 
observations, it seems like what I've been doing has been to demand too much of 
the way the page is divided up, with the result that things sort of squirt out 
of place, so to speak.

I appreciate the frank feedback.

Thank you!

JOhn
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