Redesign of Python site

Sun Sep 7 08:57:19 EDT 2003

"Stephan Diehl" <stephan.diehl at gmx.net> wrote in message
news:bjf60f$iqc$07$1 at news.t-online.com...
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> >
> > The current site is, for me, one of the most readable sites aronnd.
> > The text colors work and it lets Internet Explorer adjust the text
> > size.
> >
> > The pollenation site is one of the worst I have seen.  The mockup page
> > has teeny type that IE will not enlarge.  (Telling me to use another
> > browser is besides the point.  Lots of people will continue to visit
> > with IE even if I do switch.)  The comments page has barely readable
> > dark-brown gray type on a lighter brown-gray background..  These pages
> > should only be used as examples of what not to do and how not to spoil
> > what we already have.
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> It is absolutely beyond me, how IE should display the mockpage any
> differently than other browsers.
> On Mozilla, the page loads as:
>
> <body>
> <img src="python-web6.png" />
> </body>

It loads the same on IE. The problem that Terry is complaining
about results from it being a mockup: you're displaying a PNG, so it's
understandable that attempts to resize the type or change the
foreground or background colors won't work.

John Roth
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> Stephan
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