Re: www.debian.org Web Design

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Raúl Fuenzalida (lancer2@tie.cl) [051018 14:56]:
> Now, there is only one:
> 
> http://www.lancer2.tie.cl/
> 
> It's simplest than before

The layout is fine. However, I cannot read it on the system here.

The CSS contains:
 body { padding: 0; font: normal 11px verdana; color: #222; text-align: left; }
which is wrong for a couple of different reasons:

* You force all people to use a certain type - what, if the people don't
  have that available? (That's like the people who write Arial there -
  not everyone has the same font.) It's easy possible to write
  "verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif, *" - or whatever else suites you.
  
* The second is worse: You set the font size to 11px. This can be *way*
  *wrong*. Please don't do that. If someone set a high font size, the
  person probably has reasons for this. Please respect that.

  For the "normal size", really the users decisisions should be taken.
  If you need something for e.g. h1-tags or so, 110% exists.

Please see e.g.
http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2001-August/004138.html for
some "why it is wrong".

Please see also http://en.selfhtml.org/css/eigenschaften/schrift.htm for
more details.

So, I propose to use
 body { padding: 0; font: verdana,helvetica,arial, sans-serif, *; color: #222; text-align: left; }
 
 

Cheers,
Andi