Font-sizes and Categories

Design update of the day - 4/26/04

I had to clean up the look of the site a little, I just couldn't stand waiting until I had my plan in place.

Font-sizing

Today I moved all of the fonts in the stylesheet to "em"s. There are many options for font-sizing on the web:Keyword Based, Pixel Based, Picas, Points, you get the idea.

My favorite technique as of late is prescribed by Owen Briggs, that calls for setting the body element to a percentage (76% is his recommendation after testing 276 configurations of platforms and browsers), and using em units in CSS to define all of the font-sizes on the page. I like how it changes uniformly with the text-size setting in the browser. I've also starting to use ems for my margin settings.

Categories

I've never actually used this function of MovableType before, so there is more work to be done, but I've created a list on the left hand for Categories, and have started using them for my entries.

Next Up

I still need to get a plan up here, even a very informal one, but I think the next step will be defining document structures for all parts of my site and adding some very important content to the homepage (namely Internet Radio).

Till next time...