Browsing And Design Issues

It's always interesting (and a little embarrassing) to see who is reading and writing about one's website.

There's a comment on a Silicon Investor message board that I would like to respond to, but unfortunately the free membership there does not confer message privileges. The user basically is complaining about the non-scalable fonts used here, and a number of other users offer helpful suggestions.

But really, the user is right (which is the message I would hope someone could pass along). I had reasons for using non-scalable (i.e. set pixel size) fonts on the site during the last redesign, and the reasons were not simply personal vanity. But the reasons I did it that way aren't really great reasons any more, and I should probably tinker with the stylesheet to switch to scalable fonts. It's also about time for a major redesign, so it may get put off until then.

I also need to tinker with Reductio a bit (which I should also switch to scalable fonts, I suppose). I'm told that it does not render properly in PDAs using AvantGo, which is not entirely surprising (it uses tables). I haven't taken the time to test that, but it does render decently enough on my Visor Deluxe using EudoraWeb and a wireless connection. If any of you are using PDAs as browsers on the go, could you email me your experiences? I plan to set up a pda-friendly page that cuts down the number of entries and cuts out tabular columns entirely, but I could use some feedback.

[Posted at 10:57 CST on 03/30/02] [Link]