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Warm regards,
Joseph J. Baranauskas
CEO

www.senior-clique.com
PH: 888.332.4442

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Warm regards,
Joseph J. Baranauskas
CEO

www.senior-clique.com
PH: 888.332.4442

Same problem here, so I tried it in IE and it worked. Not a good idea to just ignore the FireFox community. :-) I wonder what happens on a Mac?

The site works in IE, but it`s problematic in that the font size is very small for senior eyes. You might want to set your size in a relative unit (maybe "em" sizes) so that the browser maintains a relative size for each viewer.

It`s a great idea, that`s for sure! The growing senior population is clearly a target demographic for all sorts of reasons. I`m thinking you might want to consider some Tutorials to go along with the site. "How to Make a Blog," "How to Email," and so on, to help people who missed the technology revolution.

Your news feed could do better by focusing more closely on targeted (relevant) news. Anyone can find out the headlines with no problem. But it`s not that easy to find stories that directly affect seniors. Social Security, Medicare, Health Issues, Nutrition studies, and so on, all would make more sense.

I see you do have the tabs that focus on pertinent topics, and that`ll work. But I`m thinking more of your landing page. That`s your main attractor and selling point. If people like that, they`ll explore the rest of the site.

All in all it`s a good concept, but the site seems to run slow. The color scheme is a bit weird, but maybe that`s only my own taste. I`m thinking it`s a bit dark and gloomy and if senior citizens are wishing to be lively and zesty, that`s a bit of a contradiction, don`t you think?

Hi Craig,

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Warm regards,
Joseph J. Baranauskas
CEO

www.senior-clique.com
PH: 888.332.4442

I have a 19" LCD panel at 1280x1024. I`m accustomed to compensating for small fonts, and routinely compare what I see with Kathy`s 17" CRT at 1024x768. I used to use "small" and "medium" as my relative font sizes, but that wasn`t as easy to control as "em" sizes. Nowadays, I`m using 1.0em for the lead paragraph, then 0.85em for main content.

I`m also using 140% line spacing, and that seems to work nicely on either monitor. Easy enough to change in the CSS sheets. Oh, and I boosted the after-paragraph spacing a bit to cover the additional line spacing.

Regarding the 10-12 additional hours, I believe you can purchase Daylight Carbon Credits from many sources that use fewer hours in a day. Banks and real estate companies right now have an abundance of these credits. Do some research, and I`m sure you`ll be able to work out a decent exchange rate.

I do get the idea, though of being the one-man show. It`s a trick bag. All you can do is just take it one step at a time, and try not to have an absolute time set for your "go live" moment. As the brilliant philosopher, Anonymous, once said: "If you really want to give God a belly laugh, just make a plan!" :-)

Later, when you have the site running comfortably, keep in mind video tutorials. They`re going to be a lot easier for seniors to deal with, I suspect. If they`re done well, they wouldn`t be expensive to do either.

Ya with Firefox 3.0 successful launch, you have to adapt or lose users.

Personally with me Mash-Up sites are getting old real fast. You should start adding your own content fast, because all that news can be found on the sites that actually create it and they are usually the ones that have all the web traffic and keep them.

Just out of curiosity .... why use functions that only one browser can handle, then have to find a work around for other browsers? Are the functions that important to the site to create that much additional work, testing, and potential issues?





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M Hall
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