default font size

[Marty]

Hi,

Sometimes it's the smallest and most simple tasks that I am ignorant to.

When a user views a page on their IE browser they may can choose to 'View' 'Text Size' small, medium or large. On some sites no matter what size I choose the page remains the same.

How can I make my font on my pages stay the same size using frontpage?

Thanks in advance
Marty

[Arthur]

You can do that by setting the font size in a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). Here are a few sites where you can learn more about CSS;
http://www.richinstyle.com/
http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/css/
http://chris.croome.net/css/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
http://css.nu/

HTH,
Arthur

[PaulKroll]

Now, whether you should or not is a big question. Some of the folks setting fonts to a larger size are simply not able to see smaller fonts, and some are on very-hi-res monitors where small fonts are, well, tiny little things that look more like legalese than real text. :)

Be aware that CSS is, as you might guess, Slightly Different between Netscape (and mozilla) and IE.

Users can tell IE to ignore your style sheets: it's in the accessibility tab of Internet Options, since folks with vision problems are the most likely to need a consistent, large font. Not likely to be chosen by the average kid, but more likely as folks get older... what's the demographic on people traveling all over the world? :)

Keep in mind that graphic designers almost always have better vision than The Average Joe, and thus, what looks like a fine font to them may be too small for "us". Nevermind the 10% of the male population (and much smaller part of the female population) that's colorblind or color-impaired. (Like me!)