New looks

Last Updated on Saturday, 27 February 2010 10:49 Written by Thomas Saturday, 27 February 2010 10:13

Made some changes to the design of the website this morning, mainly in the font department. We are now using Calibri as the main font for all content instead of Arial which is rather ugly and not very legible on-screen. Calibri is in my opinion a beautiful font and has excellent legibility.

Calibri was introduced with Microsoft Office 2007 and Vista, so XP users who do not have Office 2007 will not have this font. The fallback font in the style sheet for those without Calibri is now Trebuchet, which is also a good screen font but slightly bulkier. Installing the free PowerPoint 2007 Viewer will install Calibri.

The website is made up of several components with a number of style sheets that interact. I am trying to eliminate conflicts as much as possible by overriding "local" styles with my main CSS set, but sometimes I overlook this when updating a component and a part of the website suddenly looks horrible. Please let me know if you find something that looks... well, wrong. ;)

/Tom