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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