A final note on the subject of font-size, which I wrote about previously: Felix Miata, came up with an article on physical screen font size which goes much deeper than usual in describing browser defaults. He raises an interesting point, in which he explains that most of the web’s visitors actually have their default font-size set to 12 points (not 16 pixels), which equates to 1/6″. Read the rest of this entry »

I entered a slip-road to the information superhighway in 1994, and I learned terms like Archie, Veronica, Gopher, Jughead, and Usenet. Today, Usenet is the only one of these Internet phenomena I still use. Or should I say ‘used’? Read the rest of this entry »

Last summer, I read a great book by Dan Cederholm, called Bulletproof Web Design. It was great because it opened my eyes to a new method of developing using HTML and CSS, which involved getting back to my roots…

When I read my first HTML book, in 1996, web pages were simple things, fitting on a single side of A5. A few years later, they were behemoths of nested layout tables. Then, I started to use CSS to replace font and layout markup, and life became even more complicated. Read the rest of this entry »