Comments on: Considering During Design

By: matt northam

matt northam — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:33:15 +0000

nice… i liked the bit about using ems for font sizes combined with saying 12px was the best size for a font

really tho’, good stuff.

By: robert days’ website » Document » Design 2.0

robert days’ website » Document » Design 2.0 — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:07:34 +0000

[...] We have all heard of Web 2.0, and after seeing this post on Devlounge, this post explains what I believe are now the industry standards in Web Design and Development. Although most screens are now 1024×768, if you cater for 800×600, you cater for most Online Users. As seen on the picture above, the font size can make or break a website. If it is too big, it looks ugly. Too small, you cannot read a thing. 12px is just about right for everything, although you should use ‘.em’ . Also don’t choose a flashy font, you want a clean readable font, such as: Helvetica, Arial. But whatever you choose, don’t use Jokerman or Comic Sans MS. [...]

By: Egor

Egor — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:31:00 +0000

Some great tip in there, but comments in your second to last paragraph really make me wonder…

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=393445

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:03:58 +0000

Neat article — let’s keep in mind that the number of users who still use 800 x 600 resolution is quite high: about 20% of all web users. (source: thecounter.com, websidestory, w3schools).

By: Zolkos.com : Web Design Considerations

Zolkos.com : Web Design Considerations — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:55:14 +0000

[...] Posted by Robert Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:55:08 GMT This blog post from Devlounge goes through some of the considerations one must think about when designing a website. I must agree with most of the points in the article. The only things I would stress is use CSS in a separate stylesheet file. It makes your sites so much easier to maintain. Comments [...]