You might notice that everything seems a little “bigger” on the site today. Last night I was messing around with the CSS files and the templates. One thing I noticed in there was that all the font-sizes and line-height definitions were in pixels, which are fixed. What I ended up doing was changing all those references from px to em. Ems are an elasticy font definition size. Im not a pro, and Im not a traditional print-media person, so I can't remember if Ems are an electronic/CSS type thing, or if it's a holdover from old printing press terminology, but what it means is that now you can control the size of the font on the screen.

Want to see what I mean? if you're using IE click on View>Text Size and then select another size. Everything scales. Want it smaller? choose smaller. Do you have a high-res screen that makes 11px font require a jeweller loup to read? Click Larger or Largest and bam, there ya go. I also changed the size of the margins and padding on the outsides of the page, so if you do happen to have a lower-res screen, there's more real estate for text.

Tomorrow should be interesting. Tune in tomorrow same Bat time, same Bat channel for a world-class rant.

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