I only have a very few selected fonts available to me in my front page program. All of my other windows programs currently run have scores of them. Any idea how I can add these fonts?
Thanks for any help.
Shannon:flower:
copy the font files in the font filder in the windows folder…
If that is not the solution, you should explain your question another time…
Shannon,
The Net and fonts are not the best bed buddies. In fact, it’s downright confusicating! (Ju like my englich?)
The main problems with fonts and your website is that, Yes, FrontPage allows you to use any old font you want ON YOUR COMPUTER!
But, (and that’s a BIG BUT like my Aunt Tiny’s) your user (or surfer, or viewer,…whatever. The person who is viewing your site on the net) MUST HAVE THE SAME FONT INSTALLED ON THEIR COMPUTER TOO!
Sorry for shouting.
Remember how HTML renders text. As text. No fonts, no styles, no rendering, just text. Ssssoooooo, no matter what font you put into your FP document, the html will only tell your site visitors browser, Netscape, AOL’s (which I think is still based on IE,) Mozilla, Opera, and IE, that there is text in such and such location. The browser will use it’s own default font if it does not contain the font you specified.
Okay, sorry to be so longwinded, but I’m gonna learn ya something.
There are two families of fonts
Serif - which has sticky things at the ends of the letter forms. Times New Roman is a Serif.
and
Sans-serif - which has no accents or decorations to the letter forms. Arial is a Sans-Serif.
So in FrontPage, what your real question is whether you want to design using a Serif or a Sans-Serif.
Once you’ve made that decision, then use a font-family. A font family is two to three fonts in order of preference that you, the badass designer, choose. The browser will then go down the list of the fonts you have chosen for your design. If it doesn’t have the first, then it will choose the second. If it doesn’t have the second, and so on down the line. Your last choice in the font family should be Serif or Sans-Serif. That way the browser will choose the computers default Serif or Sans-Serif font for rendering the text. There is a way to force FP to use font families.
Your two most common font families are
Verdana, Arial, Garamond, Sans-Serif
or
Times New Roman, Times, Garamond, Serif
When you specify your first font in the font pull down menu, click on the field until you blinking curser appears next to the font. Type the other two fonts and the font style, with comma’s like above, right in that sucker. The font field will only display your first choice, and your text on the page will appear as your first choice, but if you look at your HTML, your font family is in there!
Yahoo! Whippee! He’s almost finished!
Okay. That’s for HTML text.
If you gotta, gotta, have to have a specific font in your layout, sorry darlin, but you gotta make it an image like a .gif.
Tell me how you do.
Thanks for all the help. I’m still working on doing more indepth fonts but I have a basic set up figured out for now.
