Posted by Newbie on 07/23/06 14:21

Jonathan

I'm hoping you're still there?

Have changed the font in the style classes and now I can't see any of
the pages in design view... help!


Newbie wrote:

> 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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