Use A Large Font
July 6th, 2006Not all blog readers are young and have perfect 20/20 eyesight. Consider your readers, use a large font for your main text or at least make the text adjustable so your readers can increase the font based on their browser preferences.
To test whether your blog has adjustable fonts in your browser there is a font size setting. In Internet Explorer and FireFox it is under the “View -> Text Size” option where you can increase or decrease the font. If you do this and your blog’s text doesn’t change that means you have hard coded pixel values for your font settings. You may have to switch this to emphasis values using the “em” font size setting or use good old traditional font tags. If this sort of HTML and stylesheet coding is beyond you, enlist the help of your local web monkey or ask your friend who is a web monkey.
If you are absolutely determined to use a fixed font since any other font sizes totally wrecks your blog design consider making it big, not huge, but big enough so that any human can read it. You wouldn’t want to lose readers because they can’t read your blog entries would you?