The web page you see on your computer will not look identical on other people’s computers

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The majority of people who use the internet have a computer screen width the size of the blue rectangle below— 800 pixels wide (picture elements = dots).

The blue rectangle will completely fill a standard screen side to side.

When fighting for the real estate on
a computer screen, browser always wins

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Text on a website. Very few people know how to change their text size display, so they live with what they have— never increasing or decreasing their screen-display font sizes.

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Considerations in deciding what you want your website pages to look like:

Other people’s computer screens do not look like yours.

You cannot efficiently control how your text will appear on other computers, or even which font your page will use on someone else’s screen.

On another screen, your type may look like this or this or this.

What looks like a complete, full page on your computer screen will look like a half page with the bottom cut off on others’ screens, or may appear to them to be a complete page that takes up only two-thirds of their screen. What extends beyond the page margin of your screen, may or may not extend beyond the edge of another screen.

When someone prints one of your website pages, you have no way of predicting whether their printer will break your page into one page, two pages, or three or even more.

Yes, there is a way to get around these problems, but it is a long ways from perfect. Please click NEXT