[WEB4LIB] FW: Sanity and web page creation

[cruby]

For what it's worth, I agree with Charles.  I use IE here and it looks fine.
I tend to be a bit visually impaired so have chose to so if I look at a Web
page and have trouble reading it I go to View, Fonts, and choose a larger
size than my default of medium.  Perhaps your customers just need some
educating on how to change font sizes?  If they are having trouble with your
page which is nice and clean they are going to have a real problem with
sites like Yahoo!

Just my $.02 worth...

Carolyn

Carolyn Ruby
Micron Technology Library
MS 552
P.O. Box 6
8000 S. Federal Way
Boise, ID 83707
phone: 208-368-4257
fax: 208-368-3393
e-mail: cruby at micron.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Gimon, Charles A [mailto:CAGimon at mpls.lib.mn.us]
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 10:12 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: Sanity and web page creation


To make what smaller/larger? Fonts? Table layout?
 
Whatever it is, I bet it's something they can adjust themselves in their
browser rather than hassling you about it. You put a proper DTD at the top,
it validates, you used percentages in WIDTH attributes, and it behaves
nicely when I play around with the "Increase Font" and "Decrease Font" in
Netscape.
 
There are things involving color, graphics, etc. that I would do
differently--but that's just me. As far as your HTML goes, it looks to me to
be excellent. My impression is that the people who are throwing those
requests at you are, how can I put this nicely... not very well-informed. 
 
--Charles Gimon
  Web Coordinator
  Minneapolis Public Library
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Zalben [mailto:robin.zalben at alverno.edu] 
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 10:47 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Sanity and web page creation


Yesterday was the day I started doubting the possibility of creating a web
page that works in both 
Netscape and Internet Explorer.
 
Our campus is evenly split--students use netscape faculty/staff IE.
 
I get requests from the Netscape users to make it bigger, and the IE users
to make it smaller.  No two things can be coded the same way! I'm just
trying to make a simple page for our library! Sigh!!!!
 
Excuse my venting, but I know you people understand.
 
If anyone has suggestions or comments, feel free to take a look at 
http://depts.alverno.edu/library <http://depts.alverno.edu/library> 
 
(things are changing on it daily)
 
Robin
 
  
Robin Zalben
Automation Librarian/PC Specialist
Alverno College