Re: CSS-P ? Is it really any good for SERPS ?

On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 22:08:50 GMT, Carol W <from_you@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>Speaking of font sizes, does anyone else use fixed pixel sizes for
>>menus and % for content?
>
>I don't use it for menus; used fixed text size for one element in a
>site but had it sized at like 16px or something like that in size. I
>know, I am just so daring ...

You rebel :-)

>>An example is the site in the sig, resize in IE and the menu doesn't
>>resize, content does. I hate to see a menu link wrap, I'll loose
>>keywords to stop it wrapping!
>
>But you have also specified the div sizes in pixels also - so
>naturally they won't resize, which forces the contents to word-wrap
>else flow over/under each other. I understand why you spedcified div
>widths in pixels due to the graphic selections but you limited the
>contents from the get-go that way too.

The design is a lot to do with getting the div floats working
correctly so content is served above the menu with the ability to use
the same basic template on lots of sites with little development work
(use it on a lot of different types of sites), if I put a little more
time into it I could get it to be more fluid and still easy to adapt
to other situations. Thinking of changing the look of that site soon,
so will take a crack at it then.

>A little playing in photoshop or paintshop may allow you to work
>around that limitation, presented by the graphic images, so you can
>use em, ex, or % on the divs versus fixed sizing through pixels, then
>the divs can resize with the text.

Yep.

>>Doesn't work in Firefox and similar browsers that over ride fixed
>>sizing, but since most visitors use IE. most see it as intended.
>
>They may see it as intended, in terms of appearance, but can they read
>the text? I mean - if someone needs to override the text size in
>Firefox or other browsers, is there a feeling that people using IE
>magically don't?
>
>I think people needing to resize text kind of know some sites may have
>word-wrapping or such appear ... as long as they can read it, without
>the contents wrapping over and under each other, mainly what they care
>about though - not if a one-line item in a menu becomes 2 lines.

When you put it that way it would be preferable to use % for the menu
even if it does look terrible when resized larger, so I changed it.

>
>Carol

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