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Chris Walker

Posts: 3
Member since: 9/26/2008

consistent fonts

I am using Verdana as my primary font throoughout my site (tglchome.com) however, when I visit my site on someone else's computer, it reverts to Times New Roman. On my nav bar I have mouseover that changes color and is underlined. When I mouseover on someone else's computer it rolls over to verdana at a larger size.

Any advise is greatly appreciated to help me get a standardized font no matter who's PC it is viewed on. I might be wrong but isn't Verdana a standard font on most PC's?

Report Abuse | Date: 9/26/2008 11:58:57 AM

d a v e

Posts: 867
Member since: 9/24/2002
From: Finland

RE: consistent fonts (in reply to Chris Walker)

verdana is pretty much standard, yes ;)

that's some nasty coding you have there in that page!!!

you need to remove all those inline styles and ugly things like this:

<a href="amenities.htm" id="id17" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onclick="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id17',1,'style.fontFamily','Verdana','style.fontSize','8pt','style.color','#FFFF00','style.textDecoration','underline')">
	<font color="#FFFFFF">
	<span style="text-decoration: none" id="id24" onmouseout="FP_changePropRestore()" onmouseover="FP_changeProp(/*id*/'id24',1,'style.textDecoration','underline','style.color','#FFFF00','style.fontFamily','Verdana','style.fontSize','8pt')">
	amenities</span></font></a>

and use a simple link and style all your text and links through a stylesheet, NOT using points (which are only for print) instead use percentages and when you define a font family you need something like

font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

all that text is waaaay too small too!

here's a couple of places to start
http://htmldog.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/ (specifically the html and css sections)

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Report Abuse | Date: 9/26/2008 12:14:40 PM

Chris Walker

Posts: 3
Member since: 9/26/2008

RE: consistent fonts (in reply to d a v e)

Thanks for your reply dave. I appreciate the feedback. I kept reading about css and I figured that was what I needed to do but I never expiremented with it. I will give it another shot.

-cw

Report Abuse | Date: 9/26/2008 10:30:01 PM

Chris Walker

Posts: 3
Member since: 9/26/2008

RE: consistent fonts (in reply to d a v e)

Dave, I tried messin around with CSS and I think I am on the way. I do have a couple of questions perhaps you can answer: you mentioned getting rid of inline styles and ugly things, how exactly do I do that. (Sorry if that sounds elementary, I am new at this stuff, if you couldn't tell already). Also, when you say to change the text size, you also mentioned not using points, what recommendation do you have for legible font size?

As always, I appreciate your feedback, thansk alot.

-cw

Report Abuse | Date: 9/30/2008 12:00:23 AM

Corey Bryant

Posts: 1656
Member since: 9/24/2002
From: Castle Rock, CO

RE: consistent fonts (in reply to Chris Walker)

Frontpage was notorious for putting the now deprecated <font> tag every time you decided to change something. It's not your fault at all.

	<font size="1">Ever wonder how some people always keep organized, never miss 
	a workout at the gym, or pass on a night out on the town and keep a picture 
	perfect home? The secret to having more time is simple: Don't do it, 
	DELEGATE IT!</font>

Here, you are say font size one for your text. I would say get rid of all of the font size one and closing font tags. Usually somewhere in CSS, you might specify the size of the font, something like

font-size: 1.0em;

Even though this is using a few different ideas, create a page and put in

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>Untitled 2</title>
<style type="text/css">
body
{margin-left: 5% } 
.m1 {font-size: 1em } 
.m12 {font-size: 1.2em } 
.m15 {font-size: 1.5em } 
.m2 {font-size: 2em } 
.m1p {font-size: 100% } 
.m12p {font-size: 120% } 
.m15p {font-size: 150% } 
.m2p {font-size: 200% } 

</style>
</head>

<body>
<p class="m1">testing</p>
<p class="m12">testing</p>
<p class="m12p">testing</p>
<p class="m15">testing</p>
<p class="m15p">testing</p>
<p class="m1p">testing</p>
<p class="m2">testing</p>
<p class="m2p">testing</p>
</body>

</html>

upload it and view it. Now you can use you browser to increase the size if you are unable to read it or if it is too large. Try now to use your browser on your website to increase / decrease you font and see what what happens.

CSS (cascading) means that anything inline (html or CSS)

<font color="#0000FF" id="font1" size="3">

will override the internal / external style sheet.

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Report Abuse | Date: 9/30/2008 2:59:58 AM

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