HGWells

looks nice, but the html and the css dont validate.

meandcat site checks technically is for sites that are 'finished' and that is taken to mean that they are validated and checked through for errors, there are a few in your markup at the moment , fairly minor to clear up!

From the forum intro:
"If you think your site is ready for release then post a link here and we will check it out. Make sure you validate your code and check it in as many browsers as you can first."

It looks good though

One of my biggest gripes about fluid design is what happens with fonts when scaled to extremely large or small. I've seen solutions to this out there somewhere, but I don't recall where.

Consider this:

Your fonts are unreadable at the smallest setting for IE 6 and look at the attached image for what it looks like at largest. Obviously the menu system is hard to use at that scale.

I'd recommend that you set the navigation to pixel based fonts or adjust the css so that if they do scale to largest on IE your menu is still workable. but I do think I recall seeing something out there about preventing the overlarge and oversmall scaling for fonts.

Hope that helps,

LokiLoks

I think lokiloks' "solution" to the font size question is even worse than the one you've chosen. Scaling a font in pixels makes it un-resizeable without contortions in IE6. Anyone who is using the smallest fonts available in IE6 will presumably be doing so for a reason on the other hand. But you should set the base font size to 1em or 100%, not 90% or .9em.

Your design is also quite brittle to font resizing in Firefox, the menu layout in particular breaking after a couple of size increases.

I have my default font size in firefox to a set to a size that reflects my ageing eyes and my wide viewport, and forcing it to 90% of that makes in close to unreadable for me, though it's not too bad.

Set your base font to 100% and design it so it looks good at that size. You are wasting a good deal of perfectly useable screen space with the present design.

But why go out of your way to offend people? That makes them likely to leave your site and not come back.

unreadable fonts at smallest settings is the reason that you see 100.1% as body default size often as that prevents IE downsizing fonts to the point of unreadability.

I believe you, but I don't understand the reasoning. Is this because of some strange IE bug?

Hi, guys.

Thanks for the suggestions. But I got some problems in the css when I have to use css trick but not passed the css validate. What can I do ? If I remove some of the trick the site will look mass.