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Using tables may cause bodily harm

Go to site. Look at design. Not bad is it? Quite alright. Model’s quite alright too and doesn’t dis­tract from the products too much.

Bodily Harm

Now increase text size. (use ctrl + plus or ctrl + scroll wheel up) Ignoring the fact that most of the text remains at exactly the same size, look what it’s done to the model!

So beware: using tables may cause bod­ily harm.

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5 Responses to “Using tables may cause bodily harm”

  1. wslaat says:

    Thank you :) I start using Div rather than table, can I get the same problem!

  2. lm says:

    well we put model in flash and set her sizes in em

  3. AkaXakA says:

    Wslaat: You’ll only get the same prob­lem if you don’t treat the div’s tenderly ;)

  4. Dylan says:

    Haha, thats pretty funny. If you quickly bump the text size up and down repeatedly, it looks like she’s talking…:P

  5. Dylan says:

    Mmm, sorry to leave a second com­ment, but that site has major acess­ib­il­ity issues. No alt text on any images, any­where, the text in those images is pretty damn small as well, and the only non-image text is that count­down. Oh my.

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