Text overlap problem

[Lee]

HI everyone!
Thanks to the help I have received on this board, I have no complaints with my search engine placement. But I have just found out about a strange problem that I hope someone can help me with.

It seems that some visitors to my site are finding a text overlap problem even when using the same browser and screen resolution size that I am using. Someone suggested that the problem could possibly be that some people are using the large Windows font size instead of the default. I tried changing to the large size and indeed it does cause the text to overlap badly. Could this be the problem? Is there a way I can fix this?

I have had the diagnostics run by Net Mechanic and it doesn't show a problem...but this was mentioned by another customer today, so I know something is going on. Today my customer viewed the site with IE 5.5 and 600x800. She then visited her fiance's home to show him and the text was jumbled even though he was running the same version of IE and the same monitor resolution.

Does anyone have any ideas???

[ihelpyou]

Hi Lee! You stranger you. :)

I could not view your link because it said it was not online.

If you are using the "default" font, try specifing the font size in your code. This would over-rule a visitor's default font settings. You can put the font size in a css file or simply do it at the point of the code as in:

<font size="2">

[Lee]

Hi Doug.....yes, I've been been a bad girl in staying away.....I've been super busy.

I just noticed that the sig file you fixed for me is wrong. It should read http://www.RSVP-etc.com

Sorry, I didn't notice that before

I make my pages with Dreamweaver and I specify the font size there, is that what you mean?

What was mentioned to me was that it could possibly be that the user has set their Windows font size to be large. Would your solution overide that? Maybe you can take a look now and see if you can see a problem.

[ihelpyou]

oops! :)

You are using lots of laying, etc. I am not sure what could be wrong.

You may be right that your visitor has purposely set their browser setting to a bigger font. Nothing you can do about that. My default setting views your page just fine. (medium)

[JuniorHarris]

The site appeared fine with my default browser settings as well, however when I increased the font size I did indeed see the overlaying text.

[Blue]

Hi Lee!

Great to hear about your SE placements.

I do believe the problem lies with the use of layers. They're very tricky and can produce unwanted results.

I highly suggest you switch to plain old tables. It takes some forethought, but you can achieve the same "page placement" results without the problems in using layers.

You could try using Dreamweavers "Modify - Convert - Tables to Layers" feature, but this doesn't always produce the results you were looking for. Although sometimes I've been able to use the "convert" function and then a lot of tweaking. But the best bet is a redesign using tables.

Also, you could ask the "experts" here (http://www.macromedia.com/support/forums/) (click on the "Dreamweaver" link).

Good luck and let us know how it turns out,

[Lee]

Thank you everyone!

Looks like I'm going to be redoing my site in tables! I'm getting ready to do a major redo of the copy so I guess this will be the perfect time to learn how to do tables too!!!

Thanks for the Dreamweaver link Blue....I'm sure I'll be using it a lot!

Thanks again everyone, you've been a big help...as always!

Lee:cheers: