I'm rebuilding the site because some of my changes to the template need to have the entries reset before they work right. Steve's post below looks good, but pessimist's post under that is still looking at the old template.
Posted by Mary at October 9, 2005 06:38 PMMary, are you going to tweak the kerning a little bit?
Posted by Toby Petzold at October 9, 2005 06:42 PMAny suggestions on how to go about doing that would be great. I'm still learning how to work with CSS.
Posted by Mary at October 9, 2005 06:53 PMMary the changes look great... thanks! The kerning looks fine too... tell TP that Buckhead checked it out and said so. Now how bout that delete button.... that would certainly that would come in handy ;~P .
Posted by emal at October 9, 2005 07:25 PMHuh?
I've always been able to resize the font size here with my browser, what's new?
Is there an option for choosing alternate style sheets on the main page that I'm missing or something?
Posted by fly at October 9, 2005 07:50 PMfly - the problem is the browser. Some support resizing the text and others (IE) don't. Now you can resize despite your browser.
And no, the main page has only one stylesheet. The big change is the individual (extended entry) page.
Posted by Mary at October 9, 2005 08:01 PMOh, coulda fooled me.
Mac IE always allowed users to sesize the type. I'm pretty much using FireFox all the time now though.
Posted by fly at October 9, 2005 08:12 PMYes, Mary, the kerning thing was a joke. Everything's looking pretty good, although I was surprised to see y'all go for wider line spacing over a larger font size, which I still think the new column width calls for.
But the font size is larger on the full-length post Steve made when I went to it directly from Eschaton.
Anyway, I'm still glad to see the changes. The old column widths were just too strippy. This way is more essayish. Not to be too technical about it.
Posted by Toby Petzold at October 9, 2005 08:28 PMWhatever you did, it's no longer necessary for me to re-adjust my text size in order to begin reading. Way to go.
Posted by Sonoma at October 9, 2005 08:29 PMMary:
Whatever the comments may be, you, as always, have done a great job at TLC. Thanks from all of us.
Posted by tempus at October 9, 2005 08:59 PMMary: When I first clicked onto site this am, I said, wow, this is beautiful. So much easier to read and navigate and love spaces before posting names, comments etc. But, If I may ask a silly question, what is kerning? (we have only been online a few months, so still at learning stage...)
Posted by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse at October 10, 2005 07:25 AMHi,
Thanks for some great political insights :-)
I have only this comment for the new flexible layout:
Flexible layouts make a better use of horizontal space, but struggle to maintain usable line-lengths. Usability experts have told us that there are just so many words you should put on a line. Between 8 and 12 words seems to be the ideal line length.
From aListApart.
Posted by Bo Arlind, Denmark at October 10, 2005 04:33 PMPatriot, kerning is the adjustment of letters to so that they are not evenly spaced in a line. For instance, an "I" takes less space than a "B" and a font that has kerning would squeeze the letters around the "I" closer. Here's a page that has a nice example. This font does a reasonable job of kerning.
Posted by Mary at October 10, 2005 10:02 PM