[Year 12 IT Apps] Jeb - bad president or bad font?

[Mark]

The page I admired may not render in its full glory on phones or tablets or
other computers with limited fonts.

Imagine the body text as six point italic Lucida Calligraphy... a florid
handwritten script. You might then appreciate its beauty.

Sometimes webmasters should thank font substitution!

On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, Mark <mark at vceit.com> wrote:

> Hi, web-designers
>
> Here's another page I admire <http://pageantstyle.tripod.com/index.htm> -
> especially for its typeface choice. At 400% zoom, it's *quite* readable.
>
> It's quite a shame that webmasters of such sites rapidly re-design them
> when they become objects of misguided public derision and mockery.
>
> Thank heaven for Wayback Machine <http://archive.org/web/> - which
> archives every horrible design decision... for eternity.
>
> Even the inchoate vceit.com when it was IPM Lecture Notes
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20050221191027/http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/la/it/ipmnotes/> site
> in 2005.
>
> Mark
>
> On 17 June 2015 at 16:21, Mark <mark at vceit.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark at vceit.com');>> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 17 June 2015 at 15:23, Laurie Savage <08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','08327998 at pvgc.vic.edu.au');>> wrote:
>>
>>> I promise not to show this to my year 9 Systems class, They'd love it
>>> too much. I still have a teacher who insists on building sites with frames
>>> and Flash.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> WHAT? Now you don't even like Flash??
>>
>> I'd argue for another five minutes, but now I must go and investigate
>> this new and exciting Geocities thing I've heard so much about.
>>
>>
>> Mark Kelly
>>
>> http://vceit.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> >> Witty sig goes HERE <<
>
> Mark Kelly
>
> http://vceit.com
>


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