With the changes at MicroSoft and the advances in hardware technology, I recently had to shelve my old PC. I have a newer home-built now with a high-def video card and HD monitor and am using Win7. Imagine my shock when I first visited my Rusk County site and couldn't read the text because I'm staring 60 in the face and didn't own a pair of reading glasses. I spent three days redecorating because I didn't know what I was doing when I started using CSS so I'll probably spend a couple of weeks rebuilding the site this summer. I think I managed to change the text size on all the pages and to use text colors with more contrast. I also used W3C to check the whole site and found a LOT of bad links. Today I would like to challenge everyone to really LOOK at their counties and make sure that visitors can SEE them and find what they are seeking. I have to say that the last few USGenWeb counties I visited, I was sorely disappointed that I had to 1. use Google to find anything because the site had broken links (from a move over a year ago) 2. use the enlarger to read the information (Ctrl+) 3. give up and go look elsewhere because I clicked on four links and still hadn't found the cemetery list that was promised on the front page There are a lot of interesting articles on designing web sites scattered across the Internet. I read about font size, page length, and "excerpts" (using a short excerpt from an article instead of a link). I didn't bother with excerpts, I think our society has become too blog-oriented but I learned a few tricks to use with font size and page length. If you're using CSS, set your main font to 1em or 100%, then use percentages in other areas to make the font bigger or smaller. Either one of those settings will set the font size to whatever your visitor has set in his browser. Using 12px or 14pt may look good on your monitor but hard-coding 10px on your page means that I can't read it. 16pt is the default in most browsers. Page length is very important. I think newspapers use the term "below the fold" to refer to items on the bottom half. People don't like to scroll and pay less attention to items they have to scroll to see. That means most of my site is not getting the attention it deserves. I would really appreciate comments from the surfers for Armstrong and Rusk. Tell me when my site has issues. I promise to accept criticisms gracefully, I'm not a diva who will get hysterical if you tell me my site is ugly or hard to navigate. Is anyone else having issues with the new Yahoo changing font sizes every time you hit the Enter key? Gina Heffernan Rusk Co, Texas http://www.cnocandoire.com/