There is nothing like screwing around with 15 different ‘font-family’s or ‘line-heights’ to try to find the right one that looks great. Seriously it all comes down to what I like and want to present to the world. Of course if I offered a unsupported font in a very small size I wouldn’t attract much visitors would I? Not that I do currently but that is neither here nor there.

I read in many different places how ‘px’ is better over ‘em’ whereas ‘pt’ is better but can only be used for this and that, seriously when did it become a big cluster fuck of “hey my fonts better”? Quite honestly, I just want a smooth font that looks the same in browsers everywhere. Regardless if I pull it up on my iPhone or I pull it up on a 27 inch Wide Screen monitor, I want the site to look the same in all browsers and devices. You will never get it exactly alike but to get them all relatively the same is my goal which I think I have accomplished.

The only difference so far is the rounded edges on the sides of the posts and the menu area elements. I used the new CSS3 standards that are going to be coming out sooner or later. It uses the border-radius tag to create rounded corners effortlessly with only a line of code. Every browser will show it correctly except IE. Here’s the example:

IE (internet explorer) is the last to adopt anything that makes web designers jobs easier, so you basically have to always live with that. I didn’t want to go the whole route of creating 4 corners then jig rigging it to show them correctly in the code and make it so heavy. I opted for the ‘You should be using Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome’ to view my site in its full glory, if you use IE it doesn’t fall apart but doesn’t look as aesthetically pleasing as it does in the others. I’ll live, but if I was designing for a major site other then my own personal blog then it wouldn’t be an option to use these not fully adopted CSS standards.

Regardless I fixed all the code on the site for quicker load times as well as less code and cleaner CSS so the browser doesn’t choke at all, not like it was anyways to begin with. Welp, back to the books to turn out some other great stuff over at dirtydalerz.com as well.

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