note to web designer

[arethinn]

For gods' sake, please don't do whatever css-positioning or whatever thing is making this happen when I have my font size cranked up (which is 99% of the time, unless I absolutely need your site for some business transaction). I know that it's impossible to code for all possible extremes and any layout is breakable by some condition or other, but srsly, crap like this shouldn't be allowed to happen:



(In other words, don't try to tell me how to use my browser, whether expressed or implied.)

ETA: "div position = absolute" in px units is bad mmmkay?

Comments

[silvaerina-tael.livejournal.com]

That's just nasty...

[gothikfaerie.livejournal.com]

And it's even sadder coz from what i *can* make out, they're talking about Green Crown, who are AMAZING.. now i'm curious, coz i know a few of those people!

[digitalsidhe.livejournal.com]

WTF? It looks like they must have done position: absolute; on every single paragraph, then set them all to have explicitly declared locations on the page?

And I see that some of the text is colored differently... I suppose they wanted those paragraphs to rest on different-colored parts of the background image?

Can you give me the URL for this, so I can analyze further?

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

I can't seem to find the exact page again, but it was somewhere in http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/Psychedelicfolk.html (every other page I've looked at from that site exhibits the same thing). And yes, a quick glance at the source is revealing lots of

<div style="position: absolute; top: 2826px; left: 209px;....>

statements.

I see this on a lot of websites, actually, not just this one by any means. thanks a lot guys

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

It was somewhere in http://psychedelicfolk.homestead.com/Psychedelicfolk.html. I'm not finding the exact page again for some reason. It was one with a green background (all the ones I've clicked on so far are blue). Happy hunting.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Ah! I think it's http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/WICCAREVIEW2.html.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Ah! http://psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com/WICCAREVIEW2.html actually.

[billfl.livejournal.com]

If you scroll down to just the right spot and close one eye, you get a synopsis of the last Harry Potter book. Close the otehr eye and you get a yummy peanut butter fudge recipe.