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Font Size Discrepancy

Posted 11 Oct 2006 02:53:51
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11 Oct 2006 02:53:51 Mark Forman posted:
Over the weekend, I made some changes to my site (in anticipation of my new CD release) in Dreamweaver MX. Everything looked fine on my home machine's browser, the screen resolution of which is set to 1224 X 768.

I checked it out today on my work PC; & some of the font's look small. Thing is...my monitor at work is set to the same screen resolution.

Please take a look; & tell me what I did wrong:

www.moonjams.com/main.htm

There are two horizontal navigation bars, one below the header/banner image; & one below the info on the musical act. The link colors are green (in Page Properties, the link color is #33CC99 & the visited link color is #00FFFF.) I have the font size set up as "3".

I can't figure out why those fonts would be a different size on a monitor w/ the same resolution. Even the fonts used in the band's info look small, now that I recall.

I must have fouled up the code somehow. When I created those naivigation bars, everything was in Georgia. When I changed the font to Verdana, I left the inverted arrows (between links) in Georgia, 'cause it looked better. Now I've messed it up, somehow. Now I've also noticed that the only link that works fully (fading to lavender on mouse-over & then turning the correct color after being visited) is the last link on the first line. Oy vey.

Thanks,

<b>mark4man</b>

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Replied 11 Oct 2006 05:06:35
11 Oct 2006 05:06:35 Javier Castro replied:
the screen resolution may be the same but it could be that you have the fonts bigger or the browser may be set o display bigger fonts. Anyhow, there is no way to control other users stettings so, I think the best thing to do is to have your fonts set in pixels. In line style sheets are fine, but externall CSS are good to control many pages.

I have my resolution set to 1680 by 1050 and the fonts look quite large for my taste, but that's another story.
Hope it helps.
Replied 16 Oct 2006 23:26:14
16 Oct 2006 23:26:14 Mark Forman replied:
<b>Javier...</b>

Turns out the Text Size in my work PC's browser (IE) was set to <i>Smaller.</i>

Thanks,

<b>mark4man</b>

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