Re: text-heavy site- ideas?

Good Morning Folks:

It was asked regarding width of the page:

> Any suggestions on how wide this should be?

My own opinion - if you're printing out on an 8-1/2 X 11 sheet, I would leave 
at least a 1/2" margin left and right for safety.  So I would keep your text 
columns at somewhere around 540 px.  

Print the page out and check it for "readability" based on your layout and 
type face/size.  There was some discussion back about how long a sentence 
should be - 
again, my own opinion, no more than 2 - 2-1/2 times the width of the letters 
of the alphabet in that face/size.

Just a couple of thoughts from this aging proofreader.....  :-)

- Jeff K.

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