Please help my website has gone mad what settings do you use?

[midi25]

Hi i have made a little demo website and on my pc it looks fine and fits the screen fine. Its 800x600. When i had a look at it on my laptop the tables have shrunk and the text it unreadable. I think i may be having problems with the fonts on my pc too. When i select -7pt in golive it is still quite big when previewed in my browser, could this be a font error in my browser or on the pc itself. This is driving me mad as everything looks cool in my browser but very small in other peoples. the url is www.webzone.dingojunction.com please can someone look. On my 15" monitor it fills the whole page. What could be wrong could my browser be making my fonts too big on preview. Thanks

[pcguru333]

Try setting your sizes using px instead of pt. I believe that pt sizes can vary more than px sizes.

[brotherhood of LAN]

there was a very, VERY detailed discussion about font sizes a while back, discussing all font sizes, printing issues....and everything else

Im having probs finding old threads recently...so if someone who remembers it can post the link I guess that would help :) (I searched for "font sizes px pt"....thats the general topic of it :)

[ergophobe]

While brotherhood looks, you might want to try some of the articles at:

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/indexDesign.html

I'm not sure that's what you're really looking for, but it might get you started.

Tom

[martinibuster]

I dunno, but it looks to me that you're using css on an H6 tag to redefine it as zero points. And you specify a font that is probably uncommon (Concielian.)

Why don't you try verdana, arial, helvetica (sans-serif) at about 12px with spacing of about 25px. Very legible cross-platform cross-browser.

[midi25]

am just gonna use 12px ariel. spacing of 25px is this really nesecary?

[Son_House]

there was a very, VERY detailed discussion about font sizes a while back

Not sure if this is the one brotherhood_of_LAN is talking about, but it's a good one Font settings your preferences and why [webmasterworld.com]

[brotherhood of LAN]

thats the one son...cheers!

plenty of reading there...all good info