Simple Page(s) - review wanted

[Jonathan]

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

[timg]

Looks pretty good to me...

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

Nice work.

[Elite]

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

[Jonathan]

Thanks. I'll look into fixing the menu text sometime today or tomorrow.

[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.

[Buddha]

I like it.

I was wondering what the different colors on the Clear Sky Clock meant but I click on it and found out.

[Jonathan]

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.

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.

[timg]

Don't worry...

Pixels are rescaleable, though in IE you're limited to a small handful of sizes.

[Frank Hagan]

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).

[Elite]

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