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  • Jonathan
    Senior Member
    • Mar 2004
    • 1229

    #1

    Simple Page(s) - review wanted

    http://fire-fox.info/jastro/ <-- simple list of all my astro gear..
    was getting to big for my signature @ other (astro) forums I visit
    Looking for opinion on how it looks, anything that needs correcting, etc.
    Thanks,
    - J
    "How can someone be so distracted yet so focused?"
    - C
  • timg
    Member
    • Feb 2005
    • 84

    #2
    Looks pretty good to me...

    ...although the default text size in that horizontal menu looks a shade tiny to me.

    Nice work.
    ~ Tim Gallant ~ http://www.pactumweb.com

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    • Elite
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2004
      • 168

      #3
      I agree - nice, but the menu is a little difficult to read..

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      • Jonathan
        Senior Member
        • Mar 2004
        • 1229

        #4
        Thanks. I'll look into fixing the menu text sometime today or tomorrow.
        "How can someone be so distracted yet so focused?"
        - C

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        • Frank Hagan
          Senior Member
          • Mar 2004
          • 724

          #5
          I like the way you've made the text in the horizontal menu scalable (using the mouse wheel and CTRL key). So you could leave it, and people can increase the size if they want. People with a default style that enlarges the text will see it larger also.

          If you do add a font-size element, consider doing it in a percentage (i.e., font-size : 100%. That's consistent with accessibility guidelines so the scaling works. If you put a definitive size in there, such as "10px;", then it cannot be enlarged by the reader.
          Last edited by Frank Hagan; 04-10-2005, 05:21 PM.

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          • Buddha
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2004
            • 825

            #6
            I like it.

            I was wondering what the different colors on the Clear Sky Clock meant but I click on it and found out.
            "Whatcha mean I shouldn't be rude to my clients?! If you want polite then there will be a substantial fee increase." - Buddha

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            • Jonathan
              Senior Member
              • Mar 2004
              • 1229

              #7
              Originally posted by Elite
              I agree - nice, but the menu is a little difficult to read..
              I assume you mean same as Timg, meaning the size? Or the color, etc.

              Originally posted by Frank Hagan
              I like the way you've made the text in the horizontal menu scalable (using the mouse wheel and CTRL key). So you could leave it, and people can increase the size if they want. People with a default style that enlarges the text will see it larger also.

              If you do add a font-size element, consider doing it in a percentage (i.e., font-size : 100%. That's consistent with accessibility guidelines so the scaling works. If you put a definitive size in there, such as "10px;", then it cannot be enlarged by the reader.
              Thanks. I didn't mean to make it scalable actually LOL just happened by accident.
              Thanks for the tip on font-size element, however this is so small of a site
              and going to receive so little visitors that I will not go back through and
              redo the font sizes to be in percentage form, rather than fixed "px" size.
              "How can someone be so distracted yet so focused?"
              - C

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              • timg
                Member
                • Feb 2005
                • 84

                #8
                Don't worry...

                Pixels are rescaleable, though in IE you're limited to a small handful of sizes.
                ~ Tim Gallant ~ http://www.pactumweb.com

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                • Frank Hagan
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 724

                  #9
                  The W3C.org accessibility guidelines are at http://www.w3.org/WAI/.

                  I got interested in this when some of my users had trouble reading the small print in phpBB, which is a defined pixel size in the CSS and unscalable in either IE or Firefox (perhaps because it is contained in tables). I converted the CSS to relative font sizes as described at http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CSS-TECH...ext-formatting on a test site, using the percentage value of the reader's default font size. Elsewhere in the same document, it recommends "ems" rather than pixels for the font-size element, but I find the percentage values to be easier to use (see http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CSS-TECHS/#units).

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                  • Elite
                    Senior Member
                    • Apr 2004
                    • 168

                    #10
                    I assume you mean same as Timg, meaning the size? Or the color, etc.
                    Sorry for not being clear - well size and color - maybe change the colour to white (but it may look too similar to the other page text..) or increase the font weight

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