Sathyaish,
Those are excellent questions you're asking, and you're in luck -- there is
a wealth of information on the internet about just these issues. Here are
just a few resources:
CSS-D listserve & wiki (cumulative knowledge archive):
http://www.css-discuss.org/
re: Font-size:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FontSize
Care With Font Size by W3C
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size
CSS Design: Size Matters by Todd Fahrner
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sizematters/
Elastic Design by Patrick Griffiths
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/elastic/
How to size text using ems by clagnut
http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/
Web pages aren't printed on paper by John Allsopp
http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/good_oil/not_paper/
Ideal line length for content by Maxdesign
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/em/
Finally, I should point out that this 'multiweb' listserve specifically
addresses multi-lingual issues in web design, so your posting is
off-topic. I strongly recommend the above-referenced CSS-D listserve,
moderated by Eric Meyer, for excellent discussion & advice on CSS
issues. Also, the WSG (Web Standards Group) listserve at
http://webstandardsgroup.org/
Regards,
Paul
At 03:19 AM 5/19/2005, Sathyaish wrote:
>I have two questions:
>(1) When designing applications for the Web, could you please point out
>how does one take into account screen resolutions? What should be the
>base that I must take for a start when I build the website?
>One thing that comes to mind is to design on the lowest resolution that
>the target users will have and then provide percentages for every CSS
>units in all CSS selectors. Is this the right thing?
>(2) How do you control font sizes? Mostly all websites I see will
>resize their font if I select a different font size from the IE View ->
>Text Size menu or by changing the size in Firefox.
>However, some websites have their fonts fixed and they don't change
>their font size no matter what you adjust your browser's font size
>setting to. That is a pain in the ass, especially when their font sizes
>are tiny arials. I do not want that to happen to my website. How do I
>stop that? I used to think the fixed size comes from specifying an
>absolute size in CSS units, like 11px or 1.05in etc. and the adjustable
>font size comes from specifying a percentage or a relative CSS units
>such as 1.2em, or 3ex or 40% or 'smaller' etc.
>What gives?
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