Re: FLASH: Site Check: ITVerge.com

[Paul Kilgour]

David,


If you really want to justify the text, you might want to consider cojent

setting. If you're under 30 I'd better explain.


Deep in the dark old ages shortly after hot metal perished in the ice age, a

certain type of setting became briefly popular (at least in London anyway)

called Cojent. (Not sure if I have the spelling correct).


You have your justified text, but you set limits on the number of characters

in the line, for aesthetics. So, you have 3 measures. One being the max

width of the column, two being the minimum amount of characters, and three

being somewhere in-between. This, done skillfully gives you a kind of psuedo

justified text without the horrible gaps.


It's a tough job though, but worth it. I still do it occasionally.


Paul.


> David,

> Full-justification does not work if there are wide spaces between

> words.  It is generally considered poor design if text is not reader

> friendly.  Center justification for the text on your page would be

> superior to full for readability, although somewhat boring since

> everything on the page is centered.  You may want to work a little

> more with the design to make the site more interesting.  Right now,

> each thing competes with every other thing for attention.  You need to

> draw the viewers' attention to most important function of the site,

> supported with the other elements.

>

> Karin Christensen

> Scientific, Medical and Veterinary Illustration

> www.cosmoaccess.net/~ivyacres/

>

>>

>> I will work on the typography.

>>

>> Do you believe justifying a block of text is inappropriate? I think

> left and

>> center alignment are even worse.

>

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