Saw Saturn with £20 scope

JRS: In article ,
dated Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:08:33, seen in news:uk.sci.astronomy, mike
ring posted :
Robert Geake wrote in
:

You are the first person to actual give an opinion about the site! I
did wonder if the back ground was too much, color blind you see

In a Web site, the opening page at least should have no more than a
plain pastel background, and its text should be black or some other
well-contrasting colour. That page should include the information (E-
address) needed to complain about the site; there's no point in risking
an illegible complaints-about-legibility mechanism.


Could you increase the text size, too, please?

Wrong recommendation ! You mean "stop decreasing".

The text size should be left at the preference set by the browser, never
specified in points or equivalent. Except that if a main font is
selected (another bad move, since the user will have chosen a font that
he likes to read), and it is a font that for its nominal size looks
either smaller or larger than usual, then the text size can be set as a
percentage to compensate for that.

Changes of size should also be by percentage, or by big /small or
similar; never absolute.

One step down from standard size should be legible, but only used for
footnote-class material; two steps down, and it's still just OK if the
font is undecorated.

An opening page should load reasonably quickly, and restrained in its
use of graphics. Remember that those who want to find Fred's latest
picture of Saturn will not necessarily at that time want to fetch
detailed pictures of Fred's dome, cat, telescope, garden, etc.

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