Spike opened this issue on Jan 28, 2004 ยท 167 posts
randym77 posted Fri, 30 January 2004 at 11:53 AM
I think I'd spend more time at Rendervisions, Sixus1, PoserPros, DAZ, etc., except for they all use those darned php message boards. They use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to set text sizes. CSS earned itself a featured mention at WebPagesThatSuck.com, because it overrides whatever the user might have set his or her text size to. This often creates problems, since one size never fits all. Someone with a small monitor and low-res video card will see the text as huge, while someone with a large monitor and high-res video card sees the text as microfilm. With my 19" monitor and video card set to Poser standard, the text on php boards is so small I can't read it comfortably for long. (I'm not even going to get into the weird color schemes some boards have, like black on green.) Rosity, OTOH, uses fairly basic HTML coding. You can set the text to any size you want, just with View -> Text Size. And it's black text on a white background. (There's a reason books have been published with that color scheme for centuries.) I have to say, the site general layout is one thing Rosity does right. (I suspect I'd spend a lot more money at 3DCommune if their navigation weren't so darned awkward. All those java windows. Ack!)