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SpaceGirl
Steve Pugh said:blown apart.
Only if the page was badly constructed. Making a console that adapts
to variable sized content within it is hardly rocket science. After
all, you just know that two weeks after launch the client is going to
stick a new piece of copy in there with more words than the original.
Oh, where I come from that sort of thing was the old days. These days
I see more and more sites adopting a nice lightweight, flexible layout
with far fewer graphic heavy layouts.
Good design on the web includes flexibility.
And the average punter (a) messes with his font size at all? and (b)
is impressed by sites that she can't read?
If the user tries to change his font size then presumably he has a
good reason for wanting to do so. The skill in designing and building
web sites is making sure that the visual styling does not
disintergrate when the user changes the font size, or window size, or
any other variable.
Steve
Try increasing the font size on the MTV web site and see what happens Is
that a bad site? Not really, it's quite a sexy site, and I'm sure it's
audience appreciates it. Sadly, designs like that cannot cope with text
resizing, it looks a mess! Scaling should not happen to JUST the
typefaces... if someone is having trouble reading the content of a page,
then they are also going to have trouble reading the little yellow alt tags,
or any titles and bits of texts that are parts of any images on screen. The
ENTIRE page should scale - then it would never break the design, no matter
what you did.