Fonts and FrontPage

[sol]

How does FrontPage use fonts? Let's say I use a font "Font1" and published
my site. What happens if someone opens that site and they don't have the
font "Font1" in their system?

For text this is no problem, I assume their browser would use the default
font. But I am using a decorative font for design purposes and changing that
font to default would look ugly.

How do designers deal with this problem? The font is on a layer over a
picture. Is it better if I create the picture and the type as one JPG
picture in Photoshop?

Another question. I chose "absolute positioning" for both the picture and
the type. Will the positioning remain same in different browsers?

Thanks. I hope this is not off-topic for this group.

 

[Ronx]

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How does FrontPage use fonts? Let's say I use a font "Font1" and published
my site. What happens if someone opens that site and they don't have the
font "Font1" in their system?

For text this is no problem, I assume their browser would use the default
font.

Correct, usually Times or Times New Roman. But the user can change this.

But I am using a decorative font for design purposes and changing that
font to default would look ugly.

How do designers deal with this problem? The font is on a layer over a
picture. Is it better if I create the picture and the type as one JPG
picture in Photoshop?

Designers normally make gif images of special fonts used for Headings or
very small amounts of text. Incorporating the text into a *copy* of your
image (keep the original image, you'll probably need it) is another
solution.

Another question. I chose "absolute positioning" for both the picture and
the type. Will the positioning remain same in different browsers?

Usually yes - but the rest of the page may move around depending on browser
window size, users preference for font sizes etc., thus making the
positioning appear to be wrong. It depends on the browser, and how the
positioning is applied. Some browsers are worse than others.

 

[E. T. Culling]

Here's a great article:
http://www.interlacken.com/winnt/tips/tipshow.aspx?tip=29
Eleanor

 

[E. T. Culling]

Here's an example of 'font gifs' on my home page (two for each link). They
were made with Fireworks but many image editing programs can accomplish the
same thing.
http://www.eleanorstravels.com/index.html
Eleanor

 

[Murray]

Here's a wonderfully interesting alternative, Eleanor -

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr

 

[E. T. Culling]

Thanks ... I had seen that but for many that sort of CSS is a bit over the
top! I know it is for me ... along with CSS-P. I love the readability
choices over on the right side!
Eleanor

 

[Murray]

It's actually quite simple, Eleanor. As I understand it, there are some
Dreamweaver extensions being developed that will add a UI to the whole
process.... 8)

 

[E. T. Culling]

Then I'd probably enjoy the possibilities.
Eleanor

 

[Andrew Murray]

1) yes, the default font would be used for plain text on a user system without
that font you're using.

2) yes, if you have a particular font, then use it in a graphics program and save
the content, heading, banner etc as a gif or jpg.

3) Absolute positioning is not a good idea, since few browsers support it, and I
think only MSIE browsers at best.

 

[Murray]

Andrew:

3) Absolute positioning is not a good idea, since few browsers support it,
and I
think only MSIE browsers at best.

This is completely wrong. Please visit my site at
http://www.great-web-sights.com in your various browsers to see how well it
does work. All modern browsers (i.e., not NN4x, but all other v4+) will
support this just fine.

 

[sol]

Great photographs! Beautiful site.

I decided to use gif graphics for the fonts too. That works.

Thanks.