April 7, 200818 yr Hi Crazy Bunnies, I'm really struggling with how to layout text on websites. I've read up a lot on CSS and general layouts. And in general I know I still have a lot of exploring to do in terms of the page layout, which will only come with time. However at the moment when it comes to text the most comments I've read are "make sure it's easy to read" or along those lines. Does anyone know of a good site they can reference to help with how to structure text efficiently, or does anyone themselves have wise words to add on the subject? My preferred layout I'm working towards is something professional. And colour wise the page I'm designing has to revolve around dark green. So what I've done is made the titles white and the text itself dark green and then any key words, or important words, I make white so they stand out among the green. Oh and each paragraph is in it's own div box with a light green background and the background of the entire body area is whitish. Cari.
April 7, 200818 yr Reading time! http://webtypography.net/ http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/23/typography/ http://webstyleguide.com/type/index.html http://ilovetypography.com/2007/09/19/15-e...web-typography/ http://ilovetypography.com http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/text/webtypography.html To summarise... 1) Keep things simple. Stick to as few fonts as possible, and make sure they're fonts most people are going to have. Georgia, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, etc. etc... 2) CONTRAST IS GOOD. #000 on #FFF is a bit harsh, so try #333 instead, etc. etc... 3) Don't size your text in pixels. Users like to be able to resize the text themselves if it's too small / too big, but IE6 users cannot resize text in pixels.
April 7, 200818 yr I think of all the things I have read which really helped me get to grips with text layout or typography there are two things which explained the most and improved my designs the most: 1. WDF Thread on Typography - in particular the first posted link is great 2. WDF Thread on Vertical Rhythm
April 7, 200818 yr Author Awesome Thanks, I'll have a read through all of these sites. Lots of homework for me tonight. I'm quite embarrassed to admit this; I didn't realise until now that it is called typography Cari.
April 7, 200818 yr That's alright. You can't be expected to know words until you've learned them. But now you know about typography, hopefully this will help any googling be more successful. To find the links that I posted, I searched for "typography for the web".
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