Comment by jc4p | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jc4p | Hacker News Reader

I'm having a really difficult time reading the text on the website without zooming in and ruining the design. Am I just getting old faster or does anyone else think the text is small?

Other notes:

> Quick ‘n easy “Getting Started” guide — devs don’t want to read thru all that documentation!

Really wish the real spelling of through was used there.

For some reason when I read

> Favorite selects from freelance work (flickr)

I thought clicking the images would take me to the big version of them on Flickr, like the instagram pictures them of them do, rather than taking me to the respective freelance client's website.

Overall: Beautiful design and great application that shows the creator really follows the company they're trying to score a gig at. The only thing I would change (other than making everything bigger for my bad eyes) would be removing the "available for freelance work" text at the very bottom of the application.

P.S. Funny to run in on a person I've heard of on here (wesleyzhao), I went to Sammamish, how was your time at Interlake? :)

I wish all designers would read this regarding the size of body text: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-co...

It argues that body text should be at least 16 pixels in size.

Unfortunately 'normal' sized text isn't trendy. I hope one day it will be.

Yeah, the orange header on the light blue text is borderline unreadable for me. The CSS says it's "font-weight: bold" but it isn't displaying like that- same weight as the body text.

I'm using Chrome on Windows, if that matters.

EDIT: A screenshot - http://imgur.com/KJPL4

I think Chrome on Windows has a problem with ClearType or something similar if I remember correctly. Here's what that same section looks like on Chrome for Mac, it looks nicer but it still pretty small font-size wise for my eyes:

http://i.imgur.com/MxuVe.png

I'm using Safari on Mac and it looks good for me. I believe there are some problems with Chrome's font handling on Windows.

Not disagreeing with that, but if you're applying for a job on the basis of your HTML/CSS skills then, well, you should probably have some kind of fallback there.

Point taken. Currently in class, let me run out and fix this.

Another Bellevue person on HN? Rare occurence. Email me! wesley.zhao@gmail.com

Looks fine for me, but I usually hear a similar complaint from people who have +23" screens. What sort of setup are you using?

15" display at 1680x1050.

This is what the page I was having the hardest time looks like:

http://i.imgur.com/aqtgT.png

Hmmmm thanks for the screenshot - let me try upping the font-size a little bit.

(I'm the creator of this page, Wesley was nice enough to post it! haha)

Great job overall though, it's definitely one of the better website-as-cover-letter-thingies I've seen in a while, specially now that they're getting pretty popular.

Thanks!

Are there any other great ones that you've noticed in the past? I've seen a few pop up here and there.

(unrelated but sort of related note: I was in Seattle/Redmond this past summer! Loved the location)

This is the only successful one I know of off the top of my head: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3557941

The location's fantastic! I'm currently in upstate New York and freezing.

I'm having a hard time reading it too. My eyesight is not the best and I have a hard time reading this on my 21" monitor. I don't think its just the size though, I think the blue background obscures the text for me too, though I can read it fine just a little zoomed in without affecting the design too much.

Having said that, it does look very pretty.

>does anyone else think the text is small? //

That's how you know they're a "designer" isn't it!?

What a strange misconception you have..

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