"Dude, you need to reduce your font size".
For my aging eyes it looks just fine. However, most browsers have some type of font "normalizer" (probably more accurate to call it a "compressor") that forces larger fonts down, and smaller fonts up, to a preset size. It's usually hidden somewhere with a title like "accessibility settings".
Barring that, you may notice near the bottom of the page a section labeled "Adjust text size". I highly suggest you consider its use.
Suffice it to say, I have no intentions of altering my formatting, preset by Frontpage (in which my posts are composed) to 12 point, considered a "medium" font.
"...they're all resized to be the same!"
As I point out above, most browsers have some facility for doing just that. On most phones it's enabled by default.
Let me point out that I frequently post at four other stateside Beehive forums, and no one has ever complained.
"but your formatting overrides that!"
It shouldn't. I think that's either a bug, or a setting in Beehive that Matt has applied, forcing that override. (Maybe something in one of the CSSs is affecting things).
Matt, what say you?
Because, as best I can tell, it's not working that way at any of the stateside Beehive forums I frequent.
I just did a quick sanity check of my posts at some of those stateside forums, and I see only a slight difference in font size with IE, and a slightly exaggerated difference with Opera and Firefox.
But here, at Teh forum, there's a slightly greater difference with IE, but a HUGE difference with Firefox! (Opera was somewhere in the middle). So something here is screwing with the relative font sizes.
In any case, as a test, for this post, I have set the size attribute to "undefined". Which should let Teh forum's default settings control things.
Before I create a separate Frontpage template just for Teh forum, let me hear from several of you, as to what you're seeing.
"Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that".
Don't be. For what I'm doing, 99% of the time, Frontpage works just fine.
Looks fine on here now you've made that change (IE9).
Out of curiosity, what's wrong with the Message box for composing replies? What do you gain by switching to an entirely different application, writing out your post, copying, switching back again, and pasting?
I could maybe understand if it was for something specialised, but you imply that it's for every post.
Lovely stuff. :)
Much more readable, and now I don't need to get my windows* changed.
*Yorkshire term fo't specs.
"Out of curiosity, what's wrong with the Message box for composing replies?"
I just find the TinyMCE (the "message box" editor) applet clunky and annoying. In most cases it takes several iterations to get the formatting to look "just right". For the way I work, Frontpage allows for a faster/smoother workflow. With FP, I've managed to autopilot much of what I do.
"What do you gain by switching to an entirely different application, writing out your post, copying, switching back again, and pasting?
That's not the way things work here. I've created several scripts/macros that handle formatting, data import/export, and several other functions. When I'm done composing a post, I have a "shoot" button that manages all the copy, paste, and related functions. So there's none of the convoluted machinations that you presume.
I originally started using FP this way when I was responsible for managing several Community Server based forums, which have god awful response times. Since that time I've found it the quickest/easiest way to deal with most boards/blogs, while maintaining a consistent look.
"But it was a long time ago. All I remember is the pain. But, then again, I was trying to use it to make websites, not creating a post that can be done easily enough in the message dialogue box".
Recent versions are far less of a pain, and actually do reasonably well for creating W3C compliant XML, HTML/XHTML, and CSS.
As to using the "message dialogue box", see my above post.