font questions 1

[trent101]

Hello,

i have a question about using a fonts in my webpage. I would like to use a nice font that i have in photoshop, however this is not a standard font.

Im just wondering what is the deal, if i use this font on my website but someone viewing my site doesnt have the font installed, will they see a default font instead? If so is there anyway I can automaticaly make them download the font, or something similar, so that I can use these special fonts and everybody will see them?
thanks for your help.

cheers.

 

[cLFlaVA]

create images or flash. i recommend neither.



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[Foamcow]

Go with images and use proper alt attributes on them.

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[trent101]

Yeh I was thinking of doing that.. However I have just read alot of articles that say text links are sooo much better to use for seo purposes...

any ideas?

 

[traingamer]

If so is there anyway I can automaticaly make them download the font...

No, and we're all very happy about that.

If it is absolutely imperative that you use the font, make optimized images and use them.

I would simply use CSS to specify a series of fonts. e.g. p {font-family: "gill sans", "new baskerville", sans-serif;} which would display your particular font if present, then the next font on the list, etc. You are not limited to three entries, but use good judgment.


Greg
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[Foamcow]

If you want to get clever then you can use a server side language to deploy an image replacement technique.

Go to

http://www.targetgroup.co.uk

See the "handwritten" text used in the headings on the section links?

Look at the markup. They are just plain <h1> tags.

This was done with PHP, some javascript and a font file located on the server.
You may see the "plain" text load first and then get replaced with images. To all intents and purposes the headings are still plain text.

Take a look at

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynatext/

(as well as some other articles there).

Also Google for "Fahrner Image Replacement".

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[cLFlaVA]

that is probably the coolest thing i've seen since "ajax" was (and still is) all the rage.



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[Foamcow]

Hey, I was just standing on the shoulders of a giant.

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