Large Fonts
Ok, I really need to get cracking on my design skills to accomodate this "problem". People using a high resolution often use "large fonts" and this screws up my tables and layouts big time. I use a combination of fixed width and percentages usually but mostly fixed I guess...maybe that's my problem.
An example of this is found on the front page of TortillaBoy.com. The small menu tables get all screwed up when viewed with "large fonts".
What methods do you guys use to accomodate this?
TOBART posted this at 01:37 — 6th March 2003.
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Well TortillaBoy.com worked perfect on my brower with "smaller" font and when I switched to "Largest" it stayed the exact same size. How exactly did you do that?
disaster-master posted this at 02:39 — 6th March 2003.
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hehe....yer talking to yourself.
I think you may need Suzanne or busy on this one but look at this for now.
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/fear4/index.html
If I run across more, I will add them.
Sonia
The Webmistress posted this at 07:57 — 6th March 2003.
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The text that seems to change is the headings on your 'buttons' but I notice that you have font tags for these. Put all your fonts into your style sheet and specify a font size for them in there.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Jimmy Changa posted this at 12:16 — 6th March 2003.
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I don't mean switching to larger fonts in the browser, I mean the "right click on desktop/properties/settings/advanced tab"
Normally I would have added it to my CSS but I was just playing with it as an option...anyway, it works the same whether I use CSS or not.
*shrugs*
Suzanne posted this at 15:21 — 6th March 2003.
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... I don't think your premise holds true, btw.
My monitor is set to 1280x960 and my font size is the default.
Anyway, only IE/Win will be stymied by pixel sizing. Every other browser (current) can resize anything, so don't be lulled into thinking that pixels will save you entirely, lol!
Best to go fluid, young man.
Jimmy Changa posted this at 17:38 — 6th March 2003.
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My premise holds true if you go to "right click on desktop/properties/settings/advanced tab" and choose "large fonts".
My fonts are sized by "pt"...is that not good?
The Webmistress posted this at 18:16 — 6th March 2003.
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pt is for printing
Jimmy Changa posted this at 19:02 — 6th March 2003.
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So is it better to use "px" or "em" for fonts, or should I go with relative units?
Suzanne posted this at 21:24 — 6th March 2003.
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Sweetie, I use a mac, lol... I can right click all I want, I don't have those options. However, if I go wandering into my settings, yes, of course I can change them, but I don't need to, nor do I want to. I don't know anyone who uses a large screen resolution and large fonts -- notably because the point of a large screen resolution is to gain more desktop space, which larger fonts would render pointless.
Pixels are absolute
Em and % are relative
Keywords are resizable
Points are for print
Jimmy Changa posted this at 21:34 — 6th March 2003.
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mac? Well, that kinda changes things, I'd imagine. The "Larger Fonts" setting simply increases fonts 125% in size. Maybe it's just the folks I work with, but several have it set that way, so when I show them my "cool" new thing, it's screwy. My new design will just have to accomodate this using expandable table graphics and "nowrap"s.
So it's pixels then? Hmmmm.
I'm not all THAT obsessive...really I'm not! lol
Suzanne posted this at 21:37 — 6th March 2003.
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Careful with the nowrap if you want to validate...
Or resize smaller, heavens forbid, lol.
Maybe it's just the folks you work with, lol. I can see why you would, but really, it seems silly, why not just get a bigger monitor or lower the resolution a bit?
Ah, well, having a stretchier site will be better all around, let's see if we can talk you into using CSS-P, heh.
Jimmy Changa posted this at 21:50 — 6th March 2003.
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But but but....I love my tables!
Why I want to choose CSS-P instead?
utoh, were now officially off topic. :0
Suzanne posted this at 22:11 — 6th March 2003.
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heh, won't be the first thread to derail.
Well it depends on the site, and the audience, clearly, but CSS-P allows you some flexibility that tables can't, including ease of recreation in different styles, and also being able to server different end users (print, screen, pda, cell phones) without having to redesign or recreate the content.
But as I said, it has everything to do with audience.
Jimmy Changa posted this at 22:54 — 6th March 2003.
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I was planning on setting up my new design in PHP so that I could use "include"s and be prepared for when I get around to learning MySQL and the database driven site design. Not that using CSS-P isn't possible along with PHP or anything, but I may screw it up trying to do too much at once (like that's ever stopped me before). I was also considering XHTML...
so many choices!
gotta love it.
Suzanne posted this at 23:58 — 6th March 2003.
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You can use xhtml, php and css in the same site, they aren't mutually exclusive, they are actually complementary.
synapticimpulse.com <-- my personal site is xhtml, php and css2 (and css-p)
There are lots of examples at meryl.net -- look for CSS layout pages.
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