Changed Font

[ivanmax]

Hi everybody!

 

Let´s see if any of you knowledgable people can give me a hand with this.

 

I have two different fonts in my web, "DOTUM" and "BANK GOTHIC LT". I see it fine in my computer but when I have a look to my web from any other computer everything is in "TIMES NEW ROMAN" which by the way I don´t like at all.

 

www.pedaldoc.com

 

Why is this?

 

I suppose it is because I got this fonts in my computer and other computers don´t. Is it a way of solving this?

 

Please somebody give me a hand with this.

 

Thanks a lot in advance!!!

 

Iván

[TCH-Andy]

As you say, it's because those fonts are not installed in the other computer you are viewing it with ...

 

In your code you have

>font-family: Dotum;

if you are happy to use alternatives that the user may have then you can list them in order

>font-family: Dotum,'Brush Script MT',Phyllis,'Lucida Handwriting',cursive;

or whatever you think are the ones you would like the user to see.

[chatbug]

It would be good to check if any of the "web-safe" fonts suits your tastes. Those are fonts that almost all browser will display correctly, such as Arial, Georgia, Tahoma, Times New Roman, and Verdana... Of course, by all means, list "Dotum" as your first preference. Though it would be nice to list web-safe alternatives so that for those people who don't have the "Doctum" font installed on their computer, their computer will show your website using a font that you think is acceptable, rather than the default font set in the browser.

[Samrc]

As mentioned, there are specific websafe fonts that all of us can see.

 

But if you want certain elements in your pages to have that specific font, you could make an IMAGE of the written text and post it. This can be effective for headers, separators, etc. then all the visitors can see your specialty font.

 

And note that some web building software lets you choose the size of font like word processing (sizes 2 - 60) but in reality the sizes range from 1 to 7.

[chatbug]

A possible solution is to use Flash, which can embed any font you like... but it comes with its share of problems. Personally, I'm not too big a fan of Flash sites. Checkout this site:

http://www.search-this.com/website_design/...ever_die_1.aspx

[ivanmax]

Thanks a lot to everybody. I think I will list Arial as second choice as I liked it quite a lot. I am not using flash for sure. Actually I am substituying my flash buttons for Html to avoid the problems that that package has given me from day one. After the microsoft update I am not using flash for anything else ever.

 

Thanks to everybody again!

 

Iván.

[Deverill]

Another option is to make the words graphics (.jpg for instance). It's not necessarily a good one because it can lead to serious page size bloat and the search engines can't "read" it. Besides, Flash is cool but not globally available installed either.

 

It's best if one can stick with standard fonts and use the optional degrading font verbage so if they don't have the first font it will try the 2nd and so on.

Edited May 1, 2006 by Deverill

[abinidi]

If you aren't using it in may places (a headline for example), you can do what I do on my blog: I use headline images so I get the font that I want as a title for the blog post. But then after the image tag, I have a span of text that isn't displayed, but has the title (making it search engine friendly.).

 

For example, the code for the headline image of my most recent blog post is as follows:

 

><a href="http://blog.<mysite>.com/2006/04/27/15-in-10-min/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to $15 in 10 min"><img src="/wp-content/headlines/af[...]63.png" alt="$15 in 10 min" height="29" width="152"><span style="display: none;">$15 in 10 min</span></a>

 

I have a plugin that does this automatically for my blog. I have the font installed on the server, and each time a post is requested, the blog checks a cached images folder to see if an image for that post already exists. If it does, it pulls the image. If it doesn't, it creates an image, stores it in the cached images folder and sends the image to the browser.

 

It's a pretty slick plugin. And I get to use text in images on my site, and the search engines can still view my blog and understand my post titles.