Larry D wrote:
I have a page at https://www.ccmeonline.org/online_application.shtml the
looks OK in most browsers, tho a little sloppy in Opera 8.5 but someone sent
me a screenshot at https://www.ccmeonline.org/images/screenshot.bmp which
shows text overtop some prices. I checked with the user and she also has XP
with IE6 SP1, same resolution, text size on medium. Any ideas what is wrong?
And a critique of the site would be good also.
Looking at the screen shot, I'd say there is a font rendering problem.
While the browser settings are the same, I doubt the monitor, video
adapter and video driver are the same as yours. Font smoothing may be
disabled. All of these have an effect on how text is displayed.
You use px, pt, em and % to specify font-size. Such lack of consistency
has obscure side effects. % works best for IE.
You use 13px for the body font. That is 72% of my preferred font size
of 18px. To offset such designer gaffes, I set my browser's minimum font
size to 15px so I have only have to squint a little to read the text. The
side effect of this is that many sites, such as yours, looks rather poorly
laid out because the text flows outside the inflexible bounds you imposed.
There is no reason for your site to have a fixed width. You should
correct the validation errors, they are relatively minor. Only a few style
changes are needed to remove the rigid structure (#frame width, #center
width).
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