One particular design element of the Boidem that is clearly visible to the reader is the change that seems to have taken place in the font size of the columns. I admit, I prefer the smaller font size that appears from column No. 23. But that change wasn't really the result of a design decision. Over the course of the Boidem I've used a number of different browsers for viewing, and generating, the columns. I think that the first columns were prepared on a Macintosh with Netscape 3.0 Gold. Since then both a Macintosh with Netscape 4.0 and PCs with Netscape 4.0 and 4.5 have been used. Each of these displays fonts in a slightly different manner, and may or may not have been set to different font displays. The major, identifiable change in font size (from the 23rd column) came along with the intensive use of a different computer. Upon noticing the different display, I chose a small font size in my main column template. I almost changed things back when I worked at yet another computer for a while, but I realized that font size on the World Wide Web is, after all, in the hands of the reader. Readers are free to choose the font size that best suits them. Other than minor changes on how graphics are displayed on the screen - something I tried to attend to at one point but found not worth the effort - different font sizes have no effect on the Boidem.

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