About This Website
Latest update: March 16, 2004
Page menu: Standards | Font sizes | Browsers
Standards
This website has been made with the user in mind. Its main focus - apart from its contents - is usability. This includes speed of downloading, employment of World Wide Web standards and the lack of graphics that are just for show.
Of course I have tried to make the site aesthetically pleasing but hopefully not to the detriment of the above.
If you use a good browser, the menu on the right should be visible the whole time, i.e. not scroll with the page content.
The site has no <table> tags (except for actual tables), only <div>s. This makes the code clearer/cleaner and also make it easier for blind people to have the page read aloud to them. Virtually all formatting is done with CSS.
It should also be readable on various small-screen devices with limited or no CSS support.
Font sizes
Some people might think that the fonts are too large on this web site. I have not set them this way, your browsers has. A lot of sites use a fixed font size which makes it very hard to read pages if you are running a high screen resolution of if you have less-than-perfect eyesight. The basic font size (what you are reading now) has been set to "default" size on this website.
This means that you can easily decide which font size you prefer. To set the font size you want, please do the following:
Browser |
Action |
| Internet Explorer 6 | View > Text Size > Smaller, Small, Normal, Large, Larger |
| Firefox (Mozilla/Netscape 7) | View > Increase Text Size, Decrease Text Size |
| Opera | View > Zoom > % |
Browsers
This page has been designed for standards and not for any particular browser. Although most people use Microsoft Internet Explorer, this browser is actually not the best of currently available browsers when it comes to presenting information via CSS.
Hence, viewing this website is actually better in other browsers than IE, not because it's designed for these browsers, but because it's been designed for standards. You can read more about the shortcomings of the CSS-implementation in IE and other browsers here.
To get the most out of CSS-heavy sites, you could try a browser like Opera (Windows, MacOS, Linux) or Firefox (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Sun, Solaris). Or Safari on the Mac.
