Sent by jack fredricks on 3 February 2005 02:02
"QUICK PRODUCT SEARCH" in the left hand column of this sub-page:
http://www.eddiemarine.com/cart/categories.asp
just use any em size, and see what it looks like. If it's too small,
adjust it like this
..myclass{font-size:120% *OR* 1.2em
u get the picture
concider the uber-rich, bored and
about-to-retire-and-spend-his-mega-$$$ on a boat lawyer...who happens
to be visiting your site AND has bad eyesight. If he cant make the
menu font bigger...you'll loose a sail [sic].
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:49:30 -0800, [EMAIL-REMOVED]
[EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
> Jack, thanks for all of your comments. I'd like to respond to them:
>
> Regarding text colors, I don't see any black on blue, please indicate where you saw that on the
page. I agree with you regarding red on blue, and I will adjust some of the hover / active states of
the links to improve this (that was a holdover from the original design -- not mine -- where all
html links were made red on blue with font tags).
>
> Regarding the px units on the list of links, I know that this is not ideal, but I did test it and
made it as large as I could while still fitting across one line at 640x480 and being reasonably
readable (to me at least) still at 1024x768. Maybe I should rethink the design goal of having all
links be of equal size and stretching across the full width of the screen. Is there is an em unit
approach to this that would work well?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> -- Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jack fredricks [EMAIL-REMOVED]]
> Sent: Wed 2/2/2005 5:00 AM
> To:
> Cc: [EMAIL-REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: [css-d] Site check Please!
>
> i'll not comment on the coding (because im too lazy tonight to look at
> it, hope u dont mind). Instead, I'll make some brief comments on
> design;
>
> 1. your menu is fixed font ("bad"), and your main content is relative.
> If I was your boss, i'd tell u to make them all relative.
>
> 2. I find red writing on a blue background hard to read. I actually
> think there's an actually name for that visual effect/trick. Not sure
> what it is though. You've also go some black writing on blue
> background. Again, hard to read.
>
> 3. nice boats. drooooooooool.
>
>
>
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