A guide for the first-timer. A new trick for the size-conscious designer. And a bit of a giggle. Three pleasures await you in triple-thick Issue 223 of A List Apart, for people who make websites:
- The ALA Primer: A Guide for New Readers
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by Erin Lynch
New to A List Apart? Welcome! ALA’s own Erin Lynch has picked out a selection of articles that you may want to start with.
- Text-Resize Detection
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by Lawrence Carvalho and Christian Heilmann
It’s still hard to create page layouts that don’t break if the user increases the type size by more than a few settings. Chris Heilmann and Lawrence Carvalho serve up a way to detect your visitor’s font size settings using JavaScript.
- A Standardista’s Alphabet
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by Jack Pickard
“A is for Aaron, who fell down the stairs. K is for Kevin, menaced by bears.” No wait, those are just the notes from our last staff meeting. Jack Pickard offers a lighter look at the world of web standards.
[tags]design, a list apart, alistapart, textsize[/tags]
