Web design questions.
Two questions I'd like to ask:
I like the font Gill Sans in web pages, unfortunately, not many systems carry it. (in my case, I only see it in Jaguar). The thing is: I use css to specify the font and font-family, if a particular font is not available
this looks like
BODY { font-family: 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif;}
What I wanted to ask : is there a way to force systems to, for instance, download some font to display your page properly? Is Gill Sans freeware? How do I do this? (I know one solution would be to make gif images of all your text, but this IMO I do not consider a valid solution).
Second question:
Sometimes, I put a link behind an image (<A href=""><IMG src="" alt=""></A> ). Now, in explorer this is okay, even more so since I tend to hard-code the style I wish my links to have in CSS (with the A:link, A:visited, A:active, ... selectors).
However, in Navigator (chimera) and in many browsers for windows, every image I use as a link comes with an ugly blue square round them. (because the browser wishes to give away the linkness of the image).
Even if I hardcode the style of the link to have a border of zero pixels, and white, or whatever color is background, the square appears, being a pain in my ass.
How can I solve this?
If you don't really understand it, but think you might know, do ask me some more questions.
I like the font Gill Sans in web pages, unfortunately, not many systems carry it. (in my case, I only see it in Jaguar). The thing is: I use css to specify the font and font-family, if a particular font is not available
this looks like
BODY { font-family: 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif;}
What I wanted to ask : is there a way to force systems to, for instance, download some font to display your page properly? Is Gill Sans freeware? How do I do this? (I know one solution would be to make gif images of all your text, but this IMO I do not consider a valid solution).
Second question:
Sometimes, I put a link behind an image (<A href=""><IMG src="" alt=""></A> ). Now, in explorer this is okay, even more so since I tend to hard-code the style I wish my links to have in CSS (with the A:link, A:visited, A:active, ... selectors).
However, in Navigator (chimera) and in many browsers for windows, every image I use as a link comes with an ugly blue square round them. (because the browser wishes to give away the linkness of the image).
Even if I hardcode the style of the link to have a border of zero pixels, and white, or whatever color is background, the square appears, being a pain in my ass.
How can I solve this?
If you don't really understand it, but think you might know, do ask me some more questions.
Comments
<strong>What I wanted to ask : is there a way to force systems to, for instance, download some font to display your page properly?</strong><hr></blockquote>Nope. Your best shot would be to put the font on your page and politely ask users to install it. Somehow I doubt that will work well.
[quote]<strong>Sometimes, I put a link behind an image (<A href=""><IMG src="" alt=""></A> ). Now, in explorer this is okay, even more so since I tend to hard-code the style I wish my links to have in CSS (with the A:link, A:visited, A:active, ... selectors).
However, in Navigator (chimera) and in many browsers for windows, every image I use as a link comes with an ugly blue square round them. (because the browser wishes to give away the linkness of the image).
Even if I hardcode the style of the link to have a border of zero pixels, and white, or whatever color is background, the square appears, being a pain in my ass.</strong><hr></blockquote>Inside your img tag, adding border="0" should hide the border fine. It's worked fine like this for me for years. That goes in the img tag, NOT the a tag.
[ 11-01-2002: Message edited by: Brad ]</p>
2) I don't really know the between CSS and image maps, but I used imagemaps on my site, there are no borders around the pictures. Don't know if that helps, but if you can, convert the pages.
[ 11-01-2002: Message edited by: Ebby ]</p>
wait, I'll try now, ......
and YES, it works. Brad reaches new levels of geniusdom in my eyes. (oh, and I might be the first, but here goes: congrats on your 4000 posts :eek:
Ebby, I guess the problem with image maps is that you have to hard-code the coordinates of your link-areas, whereas putting a link around an image allows your page to resize to fit in the browser windows of smaller-screened peoples.
About the font, I'll guess it'll do for now.
anyhow, brad, thanksalot mister.
<strong>Nope. Your best shot would be to put the font on your page and politely ask users to install it. Somehow I doubt that will work well.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Actually, it is possible, it's just really horrendous and probably not worth the effort.
Embedded fonts are a huge pain in the ass. Internet Explorer and Netscape support different standards. Well, some versions of Netscape. Some don't support embedded fonts at all.
If you're willing to put yourself through a great deal of suffering, Google for "embedded fonts." Don't say I didn't warn you.