Re: SEUL: Re: [seul-edu] Re: Web Site Prototype

[Ian Bicking <bickiia@earlham.edu>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 10:21:52AM -0600, Viron, Michael wrote:
> Apropriate use of ALT tags makes this a moot point--even with the use of
> graphics, people with Lynx & most other browsers will not be missing
> anything important.
> 
> The main reason for the graphics along the side for the menu-bar is to
> make sure that the text on the menu bar stays essentially the same size
> for people with larger monitors--if you use text, it becomes puny at like
> 1024 x 768.

Things might look better if you didn't use fixed-size fonts in the CSS
definitions (e.g., 10pt).  Instead, the xx-small/medium/xx-large 
definitions don't force the browser to use a constant size, and the
browser can be responsive to the font preferences given.

Graphics *can't* size up to a higher resolution monitor.  I don't see
how they would make things easier to read.


> > > You have to be very careful how you set % widths--That's fine provided you
> > > don't have an image with a set pixel width as your "title".
> > 
> > Are we talking table title or top-of-the-page title?  For
> > top-of-the-page, I don't see the problem.  Of course, I have the general
> > problem (as alluded to above) with images of text rather than text
> > itself.
> If you have a page that is set up as a table, and as the "title" for the
> page you use a graphic that blends in with the sidebar to have
> something like this:
> 
> -------
> |
> |
> |
> 
> You have to be very careful--if the screen is too big, you lose cohesion
> (i.e., you have this big blank space between the image that you created
> and the sidebar) 

I'm not entirely clear on what you are describing, but I think it can
be avoided.

If you have a fixed-width menu bar an unspecified-width main page (which
would size up with the browser), you can just set it up so that the
title image justifies itself with whatever you are lining it up with.

Maybe if you describe better what you see as the problem...


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