Posted by Newbie on 07/23/06 14:07

Ok you mean I should select 'verdana, hevetica, arial, sans serif'
option in all of my style classes, right?

Should I not really uses verdana on its own in a site then? And how can
I preview what the site will look like in hevetica/arial?



> Many thanks Jonathan
>
> At the risk of being the most annoying new user in the world... how do
> I provide an alternate font for each style class and a generic
> font-family? I have spent most of the morning with my head in a very
> un-userfriendly dreamweaver book trying to find out about this.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Anne
>
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
> > Newbie wrote:
> > > Sorry if this is really obvious... this is my first attempt to build a
> > > website using dreamweaver!
> > >
> > > The site is available to view at
> > > http://www.atregoning.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.htm
> > >
> > > It views ok in IE and in Firefox on my PC, but the font is defaulting
> > > to another (Times New Roman we think) on a firends PC using Firefox.
> > >
> > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong
> >
> > Your friend does not have Verdana on his system and many of your CSS
> > classes do not provide alternate font, nor a generic font-family
> > "sans-serif"
> >
> >
> > .lefttext {
> > font-family: Verdana;
> > ...
> >
> > Such as this one from your stylesheet, if Verdana is not installed the
> > browser will use the default font which is normally a serf Roman font.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Take care,
> >
> > Jonathan
> > -------------------
> > LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
> > http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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