Making your blog easier to read via the web |
Yowsa, finally some needed site maintenance time. Here’s a brief synopsis:
- changed font type and size for entries and headings on web view
- added (optional) to email address on comment form
I have been unhappy with the font used by this blog for quite some time because I thought it was kind of hard to read (too small). I’ve changed the font to Georgia and increased the font size, so please comment and let me know if it looks better and is easier to read in your browsers. I checked in Firefox and IE and it looks much more readable in both browsers. I also added an “(optional)” to the comments form for emaill. If you don’t leave your email please realize that there is no guarantee that I can respond to you if you say something interesting. There is JavaScript code that protects email addresses left, but there is no 100% guaranteed safety for email addresses that are human viewable on the web (even when scrambled by JavaScript) because some spammers pay people to manually harvest email addresses.
This article will help you view several different web font possibilities. Be sure to use fonts that most people actually have installed unless you can get your readers to use your custom font. The Georgia font used here comes with Internet Explorer, so I’m reasonably certain that 70%+ of surfer audience will see this blog on the web as intended. I also fixed the broken heading.
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Although a new user, this is better than what I found yesterday and sure is more readable. If I can take the liberty to suggest you something more, I would say that “comments” section on the side is too distracting too, due to different fonts and styles used in it. What would be your reasons to keep that section?
Comment by Tejas Patel — August 16, 2004 @ 8:51 pm PST
I meant a new reader.
Comment by Tejas Patel — August 16, 2004 @ 8:51 pm PST
Probably the only major reason for keeping that is self-motivated — it’s how I see who has commented recently so that I can reply. I get emails too, but my email bin is horrific (I receive thousands of emails). I suppose I could wrap that in some special PHP code so that only I see the comments and nobody else does. I do notice, however, that whatever threads are commented on there seem to get read a little more (more clickthrus) so it does serve some site purpose. Thank you for the feedback.
Comment by TDavid — August 17, 2004 @ 9:42 am PST