I need web design help

[RedRoseSAI]

I'm fairly certain there are some advanced web designers here on GC. If that's you, I'm working on a project right now and am running into two issues that are driving me crazy:

a) I use Cascading Style Sheets to format the text of all pages. They look great in IE. In a Mozilla browser (such as Firefox, which I love very much) the text is teeny. Is there a CSS command that tells Mozilla pages to make the text bigger? I'm aiming for font size 2 across the board. BTW, most of my text is placed within layers.

b) Instead of saving the navigation bar on each individual page, I've decided to make it a Server Side Include. Suddenly, the navigation bar isn't showing up on any of the pages. If someone would be so kind as to help, I'll PM you the URL so you can take a look at my code. Hopefully I'm just screwing up some minor detail.

Thank you very much!

[aephi alum]

Is there something IE-specific in your CSS?

[RedRoseSAI]

I don't think so. Here's what I have:

<STYLE>

<!--

A{text-decoration:none}

BODY{font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;}

a:link { color: #FF9933}

a:visited { color: #666666}

-->

</STYLE>

[aephi alum]

Mozilla and IE have slightly different ideas about what "font-size: x-small;" means. Does it help if you specify your font size in pixels?

[ms_gwyn]

I haven't done CSS in a while (getting back into the game)

But I do know that it is best to specify font size such as 8 or 9 since you want it extra small and not use the generic tag.

The other stuff, I am unsure of and would have to look at code...but not sure if I can help with that one.

[RedRoseSAI]

Hey lookit that - "font-size: 12px" worked! Thanks guys!

ms_gwyn, I'll send you the URL as soon as I finish up a few things here. I forgot to transfer the nav bar graphics, so even if I WAS doing the SSI correctly, there would be nothing to see.

[Rudey]

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/7972

-Rudey

[ms_gwyn]

Originally posted by Rudey
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/7972

-Rudey

Yes I primarily use firefox now, back in the beginning I was all about netscape, but they fell off, then I turned to IE, but discovered firefox in july 05 (?) and have been using it since, slowly breaking out of the MS chains

[Rudey]

Originally posted by ms_gwyn
Yes I primarily use firefox now, back in the beginning I was all about netscape, but they fell off, then I turned to IE, but discovered firefox in july 05 (?) and have been using it since, slowly breaking out of the MS chains

The page has links to mozilla/firefox commands.

-Rudey

[RedRoseSAI]

Where is the link to commands?

ETA - nevermind, I found it. Interesting that these are all mozilla-only commands. I'm not a huge fan of browser-specific commands, but it might be fun to play with. Thanks!

[Rudey]

Originally posted by RedRoseSAI
Where is the link to commands?

ETA - nevermind, I found it. Interesting that these are all mozilla-only commands. I'm not a huge fan of browser-specific commands, but it might be fun to play with. Thanks!

"command that tells Mozilla" so I thought that's what you were looking for.

-Rudey

[ms_gwyn]

Mozilla Commands

here is a list of specific commands

yea, I'm going to play with it, if I need specific commands, but I also like using "universal" commands

[Sistermadly]

One thing you can do is to not use pixels or relative sizes (x-small) at all - use percentages.

Play around with some text and set the font size thus:

font-size: {100%}

and just increase and decrease at will. It's a bit more reliable -- and flexible -- than using fixed pixel width/sizes.

[RedRoseSAI]

ms_gwyn, I sent you a PM.