Re: Conference Materials Site

Rasmus, This is a great idea! But some of your recommended practices present difficulties (read on)... > From: Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@linuxcare.com> > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Conference Materials Site > > Guys, in an effort to pool our resources and provide a single repository > for conference materials, I have created http://conf.php.net > > - Netscape Navigator 4.73 > > - Under File-Preferences-Font select Verdana-ttf for your variable > width font and Courier New for your fixed width font. Netscape will > show you a font size of 0 in the dialog, but type 12 into the text > box to force it to a 12pt default font. Never heard of this font face -- must be specific to PCs? It certainly does not appear in Netscape 4.72 on my Ultrabook or UltraSPARC 60. And 12 pt fonts are generally WAY too small for effective use in a conference setting. The fact that we are using computers instead of slides doesn't rewrite all the old rules for effective presentations -- one of which is to put no more than about 5 LINES of material per screen. I have been using HTML for presentations for about 8 years now, and always use 30 pt. fonts or greater. Yes, it looks ridiculous to the presenter, accustomed to using 12 pt. fonts when sitting alone directly in front of a workstation screen, but it's entirely appropriate for use in a group presentation. Think about all those poor souls in the back of the auditorium, or with impaired vision (like me)! Your 12 pt. font is effectively INVISIBLE to these folks. > > -Rasmus Cheerio, Rick Rodgers