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 Posted by A-OK-SITE on 01/18/08 03:48 
On Jan 17, 5:24 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: 
> In article <jb3565-b8c....@xword.teksavvy.com>, 
>  "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohn...@gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> 
> 
> > On 2008-01-17, John Hosking wrote: 
> > ... 
> > > And here's a contribution for you to put inside the <style> element, 
> > > although at some point[1] you will probably want to move from embedded 
> > > CSS like this to using an external stylesheet. 
> 
> > > html, body   { 
> > >    font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; 
> > >    font-size: 100%; 
> > >    background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#000000; 
> > >    padding:0px; margin:0px; } 
> 
> > > The most instructional thing you can do is tweak small things in your 
> > > code (markup and CSS) and see the effect(s). So don't just accept the 
> > > CSS above; add it to your page, view it in some browsers, then change it 
> > > and see what happens. 
> 
> > > For example, a lot of folks don't care for serif fonts for long online 
> > > texts. So try something like 
> 
> > > font:100% Arial, Helvetica, "Century Gothic", sans-serif; 
> 
> > > instead of the fonts I gave you at first. 
> 
> >     Better still, don't specify a font family for the body text, and 
> >     let the user's default (and presumably preferred) font be used. 
> 
> >     If I have my browser set so that the default font is Helvetica (or 
> >     something similar in size) and a page is served with, e.g., Times 
> >     New Roman, the text is smaller than is comfortable. 
> 
> This guy is never going to get this site up if anyone suggests 
> the least thing that is not needed. See how many concerns are 
> crowding him already? I tend to agree with Chris on this because 
> it is less to worry about for now. 
> 
> John's points are all fair enough though. Later we will hive off 
> the CSS to external. The title point is not a bad one to start 
> with though (see John's previous post). OP needs a nice short 
> better than "My sister". 
> 
> But you have to admit, the site does not seem to have any obvious 
> visual faults right at this moment. <g> 
> 
> -- 
> dorayme 
 
Coppermine for photo gallery.  Anyone can set up and use and it has 
all the features he needs.. 
 
Daniel 
 
http://a-ok-site.com
 
  
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