Viewing Fonts/Text
Fonts/Text
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User: Yelena 13 years ago
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Some Fonts do not work. For example I am trying to use Helvetica Neue. It works if I choose Regular or Bold but does not if I choose Light, Ultra Light,Medium,etc... And also, the size of the letters changes when published, it looks larger than inside the EasyWeb page. When Highlighting text - I can't just choose part of the word, it highlights either the entire word or paragraph. When published original spacing that I see in EasyWeb changes. ------------------------------- Yelena MacBook Pro OS X 10.10.3 IMac 21" OS X 10.10.3 |
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User: Roddy 13 years ago
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The text selection issue is being discussed in this topic... viewtopic.php?f=4...t=58 I'm still getting the same issue. If you highlight the whole phrase or sentence, click off it in the text box and the click again you can select part of a word. Until you do that, you can't see the insert point cursor flashing so there is definitely a problem. As far as the font is concerned, Helvetica Neue isn't a web-safe one. I wonder if EasyWeb is stopping you doing something you shouldn't be doing in the first place? ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Yelena 13 years ago
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Thank you for clarifying the highlighting issue... [quote:24mwulgk][size=150:24mwulgk]As far as the font is concerned, Helvetica Neue isn't a web-safe one. I wonder if EasyWeb is stopping you doing something you shouldn't be doing in the first place?[/size:24mwulgk][/quote:24mwulgk] That seems like it limits the font options severely.... I have used all these varieties of Fonts in IWeb with no problem...It applies to other Fonts where you have more options than just Regular,Bold and Italic. ------------------------------- Yelena MacBook Pro OS X 10.10.3 IMac 21" OS X 10.10.3 |
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User: Roddy 13 years ago
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The problem with apps like iWeb is that they are more like DTP than Web Design apps. Just because you can use a fancy font doesn't mean that you should! In CSS the font family property usually contains the desired font, a fallback font and the generic group like this... font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif; I understand that EasyWeb is aiming to be able to add a fallback font when an inexperienced user unwittingly tries to specify a non web-safe one. CSS only allows for normal, italic and oblique in the font style property. Options like regular, bold etc are not recognized. These are achieved by using the font-weight property. This is all very confusing for the beginner in web design since they are trying to use (and being encouraged by apps like iWeb) print media terminology out of context. The exciting thing about EasyWeb is that we can easily use hosted fonts since we can add the links to them in the head code of the HTML doc. You can either use the fonts hosted by Google or download them your self from somewhere like Font Squirrel and host them yourself. Here's an example of using a Google hosted font - in this case "jura" - which is appropriate for a slideshow of Scotland since Jura is a remote island famous for its malt whiskey... http://ezmacwebdesign.com/Demo/shadowbox/shadowbox-scot.html ------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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User: Yelena 13 years ago
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Thank you, Roddy... It sort of clarifies the problem for me...:) I am not a technical person, so there are many things I don't understand but I get it - if it doesn't work in EasyWeb don't use it...:) I do have have some Google Fonts in my Font collection and yes, they do work better although also not all of them. But that is something I can deal with...Thank you. ------------------------------- Yelena MacBook Pro OS X 10.10.3 IMac 21" OS X 10.10.3 |
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User: Roddy 13 years ago
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Once the HTML widget and code entry are working properly it will be easy to add hosted fonts. This is an example of one done in EasyWeb Beta-3...
------------------------------- Roddy Website: http://everwebwidgets.com Contact: http://everwebwidgets.com/ewWidgets-home/contact.html NOTE: I am an EverWeb user and NOT affiliated with EverWeb! Any opinions expressed in this forum are my own. |
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