Dear Pravin, I had forwarded you mail to an acquintance who use FOSS tools to do accomplice his web development work. Here is his reply:
I hope we can solve the issues with the solutions given below. *I need tips on how to test a site from perspective of different screen resolutions in Ubuntu, to verify if a site renders same everywhere. I have used em as sizing unit instead of pixel * * * *I use Firefox addon "webdeveloper" toolbar to check the layout issues. there is an option for "resize" the browser, so we can check different screen resolutions with this. * * * *What font family should be used so that windows, apple and linux users do not find font sizing issues. On my screen the fonts look fine, but on some other systems the font shrink (is it an EM related issue?)* * * *There are lots of font kits available (we can get one from www.fontsquirrel.com) use one to embed fonts, I have never experienced problems with different OS in normal situation I think "EM" is not making problems but we can use a "reset" style in our CSS to override vendor prefixes. Use this reset : ** http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/* * * *Should I really bother whether my website looks proper on IE 9? If yes, how legal is installing Wine and IE on GNU/Linux (I guess IE is only legal on Windows, and not sure if installing wine needs Windows license)** * * * *Adobe "browserlab" is a best solution for cross browser testing. its free and we can check our site online in various browsers. Especially the onion skin option is best for checking the alignments.* *"EM" size is best for font size. If we need fluid layout, give units in "percentage". otherwise no problem with "px" units.* * * * * rgds Anish On 11 November 2012 12:47, Pravin Dhayfule <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have started a new venture from scratch for providing FOSS based IT > solutions and Support. For this I have just released a website that is > built using HTML5/CSS3, JQuery, PHP, GIMP and InkScape. The website is > available at http://www.cybrent.biz > I made this website for portraying as an example to my designer on how > GIMP and InkScape can be used for professional web design work. As per them > they had never seen any professional grade application of GIMP and InkScape > in Web designing. > > My only problem is: > > - I need tips on how to test a site from perspective of different > screen resolutions in Ubuntu, to verify if a site renders same everywhere. > I have used em as sizing unit instead of pixel > - What font family should be used so that windows, apple and linux > users do not find font sizing issues. On my screen the fonts look fine, but > on some other systems the font shrink (is it an EM related issue?) > - Should I really bother whether my website looks proper on IE 9? If > yes, how legal is installing Wine and IE on GNU/Linux (I guess IE is only > legal on Windows, and not sure if installing wine needs Windows license) > > Till these days I was providing solutions as Part Time biz, however now I > have entered as a full time. I need both support as well as tips from the > FOSS community for moving ahead as a full time FOSS Business Solutions > Provider. > > Regards > > -- > Pravin Balaji Dhayfule > www.dhayfule.com > > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > > -- "This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew." - Goethe
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