I agree completely that most web sites are poorly formatted with columns that are too wide to scan, the site cluttered with animated ads, and/or improper gutter

I agree completely that most web sites are poorly formatted with columns that are too wide to scan, the site cluttered with animated ads, and/or improper guttering that allows text to collide with the actual window frame. It is a known problem and one that the majority of sites obviously don't care about even though they should. The referenced page though, as an example of proper design, is not a good solution. When resizing the window, column widths jump erratically so it is hard to keep your place; and at a comfortable column width, there is so little text it takes but a few seconds to read, and then one has to scroll. Having to scroll every couple of seconds sucks big time, even worse than dealing with small font. Furthermore, he has done something to sabotage the font resizing buttons so when I try to make the text less gargantuan, it retains the text size but inexplicably shrinks the column size. As ghastly and infuriating as sites that make me disable javascript before I can copy text. I am sure his gargantuan text looks nice on his iPhone or whatever high density display device he is using, but it is way too big on a normal screen. Unfortunately, screens are now tied into film aspect ratios (as if this is what you spend most of your hours on), windows for non-film watching applications resize most easily to fill the screen to these film dimensions, toolbars are crammed on top and bottom of applications, using up even more vertical space, and HTML has no flowing multi-column support whatsoever, making good solutions impossible and small font the least worst among many terrible choices.