To Em Or Not To Em
To Em Or Not To Em
I have been absent from these pages for over a week now. This is largely because I have been completing the latest version of my forum plugin. It’s not the problems, little bugs and support that ends up taking the most time; it’s actually all the good ideas that people keep coming up with, so many of which I can’t resist. But at the same time I have been tiring of the ‘blue’ look to the site and felt it needed a refresh. Which also tied in nicely with one of the reasons I started this site in the first place.
Originally I just used it as a learning device. I was new to php, css, xhtml, rss and lots of other acronyms and wanted to learn. I wont say I have conquered them but at least I now know what they all mean and how they all work. So the next challenge I wanted to have a go at was scalability and to swap from blue to red.
It’s not perfect and there is still some CSS to tweak and little things to alter but the goal was to create a theme that still worked when a user hits the control + (or, for us Mac users, the Apple +). So wherever possible, although not complete yet, I have eradicated fixed pixel widths in favour of ‘ems’, fixed font sizes in favour of percentages and on the whole it is hanging together as planned. Even, I believe, in Internet Explorer 6. Well, almost.