IE text size HELP!!!

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by xinnek, Dec 21, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hi, I'm a newbie to DP, well as far as writing. I almost sure I've read nearly every thread here. Great knowledge in these pages.

    I hope this isn't a redundant question, but I searched and looked through hundreds of threads and I'm still coming up short. What Text Sized for Internet Explorer should I optimize for? :confused:
    Largest
    Larger
    Medium
    Smaller
    Smallest
     
    xinnek, Dec 21, 2005 IP
  2. ServerUnion

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    Medium would be a good choice as it's the default.
     
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  3. JMonster

    JMonster Well-Known Member

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    Always optimize for the default, but definately make it usable for those not using the default (especially if you sell reading glasses!)
     
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    Hehehehe :D

    Design for medium, code for all!

    I assume you are familiar with CSS?

    Set the body to 80% (or say 66% if you prefer a smaller default)

    Then use em's for font sizes in the rest.

    ie:

    body { background: transparent; color: black; margin: 0; padding: 0; font: normal normal 66% Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; }

    /* ... */

    h1 { font: bold 1.4em Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; }

    q { font: 1em "Times New Roman", Times, serif; }

    .small { font: 0.9em Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; }





    This has two great benefits.

    1) If you change the percentage in the body it carries through to all the other settings in the style sheet are they are relative to the size set in the 'body' of the CSS

    2) It is dynamic for all browsers that support style sheets - which is virtually all of them in use. Take a look at any of my sites if you want to see how well it works. Change the text size setting in the browser and everything increases or decreases accordingly.


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    Malachim, Dec 22, 2005 IP
  5. xinnek

    xinnek Well-Known Member

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    Thank you so much! Everything looks so much better now. I'm in the process of a complete overhaul of an old site I had. I had somehow optimized it for large print and it was throwing everything off. This was my first site ever and the code was very poor to begin with. When I started this site, I began averaging about 130,000 uniques per week for about 2 months. (I know, sounds like I must have smoked a lot of crack this morning.) I had posted the very first actual high res spy photos of the 2005 Honda Odyssey on the site and the response was to say the least, overwhelming. I wish I had found Digital Point BEFORE I ever posted those pics. The sad thing was, I didn't even have any ads on my site. :confused: Thanks again, the members here are the most intelligent and helpful bunch of geeks (I mean that in a good way) I've ever seen. ;)

    Thank You!
     
    xinnek, Dec 22, 2005 IP