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Comment by chris11 | Hacker News Reader

The site seems interesting, and from the brief glance I got I think that the design is clean and works well. But I noticed that the font for most of the subsections is really small and basically illegible. For example, the text for http://uberessay.com/about/about-uberessay/ is a whole lot smaller than the About Us text above the search bar. It seems like you have a good selection of articles though for being up such a short period.

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Yes, agreed. I've got very good eyes, but the text on the sub-pages (like the about one) was too tiny for me to read. Screenshot in Firefox 3.5: http://i27.tinypic.com/ws7eip.png

Edit: they've fixed the text size now (see below) -- good work.

Also, on the about->reading page, you say, "All essays accepted and posted on this website are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. This means that they are not yours to copy."

But isn't the whole point of CC that you are free to "copy, distribute, and transmit the work" as long as you attribute (and don't use it for business or alter it, in this case). See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

The home page/logo/etc looks really nice, but the other thing was that it took me (a computer-savvy user) ages to figure out where to actually read an essay. This is partly because the text was too small and I physically couldn't read the download link. The PDF image should definitely be clickable and link to the PDF. And perhaps even better: a big "Click here to Read PDF" at the top of each essay page.

Ah, that's better already -- somebody fixed that text size problem quickly! :-)

I apologize for the small text; while trying to change the slider at the top I accidentally changed the wrong class in the CSS. It should be back up now. I apologize for the inconvenience!

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