critique of my site

I had a webpage that I made for some friends who were asking me about how
to make a website. It turned into a very long list so I recently turned
it into a multi-page website. Any comments or suggestions? I'm thinking
of buying a domain name for it. I know there are already a lot of other
similar sites, but this one is personalized for people that I know. It is
still being refined, but it's functional.

For some reason the CSS rollovers aren't working right in IE. I haven't
quite organized the CSS file yet.

The URL is:
http://s94621231.onlinehome.us/

noSpAm0000 wrote:
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For some reason the CSS rollovers aren't working right in IE. I haven't
quite organized the CSS file yet.

The URL is:
http://s94621231.onlinehome.us/

#nav {
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 60%;

Drop the Verdana, and the 60% size. It's not readable.

Otherwise, the CSS links seem to work ok in IE for me.

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On Mon, 09 May 2005 01:19:18 +0000, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
http://s94621231.onlinehome.us/

#nav {
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 60%;

Drop the Verdana, and the 60% size. It's not readable.

Otherwise, the CSS links seem to work ok in IE for me.

I changed it to 80%. I don't know what to replace Verdana with. I want
a large, easy-to-read font.

noSpAm0000 wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2005 01:19:18 +0000, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
http://s94621231.onlinehome.us/

#nav { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 60%;

Drop the Verdana, and the 60% size. It's not readable.

Otherwise, the CSS links seem to work ok in IE for me.

I changed it to 80%. I don't know what to replace Verdana with. I
want a large, easy-to-read font.

The reason you want to set the size smaller is *because* Verdana is a
large font. If I don't have Verdana, your page looks like flyspecks.
See this example:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

Set the body font size to 100%, use maybe 85% for legalese, leave the
rest alone except of course something larger for Hx.

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On Mon, 09 May 2005 01:54:00 +0000, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
http://s94621231.onlinehome.us/

The reason you want to set the size smaller is *because* Verdana is a
large font. If I don't have Verdana, your page looks like flyspecks.
See this example:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

Set the body font size to 100%, use maybe 85% for legalese, leave the
rest alone except of course something larger for Hx.

Thanks for that link. I changed my site to 100%-size Arial (except the
menu) and put a link to that Verdana webpage on my site. Are there any
problems with Arial?

noSpAm0000 wrote:

On Mon, 09 May 2005 01:54:00 +0000, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
http://s94621231.onlinehome.us/

The reason you want to set the size smaller is *because* Verdana
is a large font. If I don't have Verdana, your page looks like
flyspecks. See this example:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

Set the body font size to 100%, use maybe 85% for legalese, leave
the rest alone except of course something larger for Hx.

Thanks for that link. I changed my site to 100%-size Arial (except
the menu) and put a link to that Verdana webpage on my site. Are
there any problems with Arial?

Arial isn't the best apple in the basket. I use this combo on my sites:

body, td, th {
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
....

Your 80% menu is still a bit small. I think the content column could
be a bit wider as well, and the text could use more contrast. How
about instead of muting the text, you mute the starkness of the
background:

background-color: #f5f5f5; /* or even #dfdfdf */
color: #000000;

It (the content column) is also quite narrow in an 800px window.

Other than these few things, the site is quite nice.

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Arial isn't the best apple in the basket. I use this combo on my sites:

body, td, th {
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
...

Arial before Helvetica? That inferior clone? Scandalous! :-o

http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html

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Ben M.

Ben Measures wrote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

Arial isn't the best apple in the basket. I use this combo on my
sites:

body, td, th {
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
...

Arial before Helvetica? That inferior clone? Scandalous! :-o

http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html

<lol> Yes, I should change the order, shouldn't I? And I've seen that
article before, too...

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:

noSpAm0000 wrote:
On Mon, 09 May 2005 01:19:18 +0000, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
http://s94621231.onlinehome.us/

#nav { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:
60%;

Drop the Verdana, and the 60% size. It's not readable.

Otherwise, the CSS links seem to work ok in IE for me.


I changed it to 80%. I don't know what to replace Verdana with. I
want a large, easy-to-read font.


The reason you want to set the size smaller is *because* Verdana is a
large font. If I don't have Verdana, your page looks like flyspecks. See
this example:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html

Set the body font size to 100%, use maybe 85% for legalese, leave the
rest alone except of course something larger for Hx.
Why not specifying no font and font size. Let the visitor deceide what

kind of font and font size they like best to read with there OS/browser
set-up.
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Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction

Edwin van der Vaart wrote:

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Set the body font size to 100%, use maybe 85% for legalese, leave
the rest alone except of course something larger for Hx.

Why not specifying no font and font size. Let the visitor deceide
what kind of font and font size they like best to read with there
OS/browser set-up.

Some versions of IE (no surprise) have some kind of bug where they do
not resize text correctly if no size is set. Same thing happens if you
use em for the body font. I read that somewhere.

Re the font itself? Maybe you'd rather have your site display in a
sans-serif font rather than a default Times New Roman...

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