Suzanne — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 00:45:45 +0000

Using graphics for text will, thankfully, seriously harm your rankings in search engines.

Don't use px, don't use graphics, just code better. Using px is less painful than graphics, and again thankfully, only affects IE users -- every other 5.x+ browser out there resizes pixels as well.

What you're messing with is thinking the web is print and not thinking of the zillions of ways a user can access the content (from cellphones to different operating systems and browsers), and not realizing that your audience is not made up only of people with perfect vision and similar preferences to your own. Accessibility, printing, readability are all compromised when designer ego takes precedence above user requirements.

If you post your sites, we can help explain how to make your sites work properly at various text sizes.

mjs416 — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:45:15 +0000

Another method I have seen on a couple sites is to use a graphic for your text. For example, instead of having a paragraph with Verdana, size 1 text, you could write the paragraph in Photoshop and save it as a GIF or JPEG and simply insert the pic into a desired cell. I really dont want to use that approach as it makes updating and editing the site a pain in the butt, and it adds to the total download time which can really suck if you are on low connection speed dial up.

Busy — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:34:48 +0000

I believe your talking about using px size fonts which dont like to be resized in IE, but does in other browsers.

Try find another way around this, instead of gluing your fonts, try make use of justify or something as many many people have eye/vision problems and need the ability to increase font size. Ideally not using any font tags (html or CSS) is easier to control as it's similar in most browsers.
CSS is cross browser compatible to a degree and is getting better everyday.