One last question: what's the identifier for the text that we type in the post box? That's the last thing that I can't seem to make bigger.

So if I put font-family: times new roman; in my custom css box, all the font will show as Times New Roman?

Literalist, here.

Everything looks groovy and just as it should, except for font size. I've been reading about the css, even clicked over to the page with the css stuff on it, and honestly, I can't tell what I'm supposed to do. Sorry.

Everything is great with being where it's supposed to be, so, huge and grateful thanks to ita and Jon and DX and anybody else who worked on that. What I've been doing until I figure out how to change things permanently is changing text size in "View" (Firefox) for message center, to get it large enough to read, then changing it back in-thread to get it un-bolded.

If someone can give me step by step to change font size *either* in message center *or* in-thread, that would be all I'd need. And sorry for the dim.

what's the identifier for the text that we type in the post box?

It should be .formpost when you're typing a new post, and .editpost if you're editing an existing post.

So if I put font-family: times new roman; in my custom css box, all the font will show as Times New Roman?

I haven't tested this, but

body {
  font-family: "Times New Roman";
}

should do the trick.

It should be .formpost when you're typing a new post, and .editpost if you're editing an existing post.

I see that in the default CSS, but it doesn't have a "font size = whatever" line where I can change the font size (I've been bumping everything up by ~10%, and it works great for my horrible eyesight). Can I just put that in a line that says "Font size = 90%", or will that make the Internet explode?

For space at the bottom of the post, you need to change the padding-bottom parameter of the .post class. It's currently set to 1.5em, so

.post {
  padding-bottom: 1em;
}

will make it a little less blanky.

Teppy, this should do the trick:

.formpost, .editpost {
  font-size: 90%;
}

What I mean is this part:

.formpost, .editpost {
width: 505px;
height: 175px;
}

Is there a place in there I can indicate that the font needs to be bigger? Because what I'm typing right now looks like it's about 6 pt., and it's killing my eyes.

Funny -- I really think everything looks pretty much exactly the same as before. When I first came on this morning, I was expecting the posts in here to end up with saying we were switching back to the old style.

I haven't tested this, but

body { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }

should do the trick.

Worked terrific, thanks. Serif fonts look much nicer to my eyes.