XXP4 and web safe fonts

[BobMoyer]

I have just finished creating my website with XXP4. I am sure that some of the fonts used are deemed NOT to be web safe. However, I used them in graphics and then saved them/used them as .png graphics. Does that allow visitors to view them as I had intended - even though they may not have that font installed on their system? Thanks.

Bob

PS. Since I used XXP4 and I will have more questions before I upload this site, is this still the proper forum in which to ask my questions?

[Egg Bramhill]

If I understand you correctly Bob what your saying is correct.

If you export a page and use Times New Roman for text it can be read by 99% of viewers.

If you export a page that uses "BobMoyer" font for text as an example very few visitors will have that font so the browser will substitute it for a more common browser font, which will probably mess up your web page in a right royal fashion.

So to avoid this you can turn the text to a group in XX which forces XX to export it as a bitmap and so no font conflict occurs. But be aware that once converted to a bitmap it becomes just that, an image and search engines can't include it in their database.

[instinctive.de]

I use the following file as a reference for choosing fonts for web site design:

http://pub.instinctive.de/WindowsMacFonts.html

(temporary, please save)

[Daniel]

(temporary, please save)

Or just visit the updated original, where all the links work....

http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

[BobMoyer]

Egg-
The fonts that I had used were in buttons/icons that I saved as .pngs. I was just concerned that they may not show up properly if not installed on the end-user's computer. For all of the plain text that appears I tried to use normal(?) fonts.

Thank you all for your help. I saved the web-font information for future use.

Bob

[instinctive.de]

Or just visit the updated original, where all the links work....

http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

Hehe. Even though it might seem so, there was no intention to 'steal' anything I just had this file for ages and I didn't know anymore where I got it in the first place...

[amoore]

The fonts that I had used were in buttons/icons that I saved as .pngs. I was just concerned that they may not show up properly if not installed on the end-user's computer.

Hi Bob

If you saved the images as pngs, there won't be a font problem on the end-user's computer. Pngs are bitmaps. IOW, they're a flat grid of pixels — nothing more. Once you've made the png, the text is just like any other part of the picture. It can't be changed because it's no longer text.

The font will only be factor when you want to update or recreate the png, and that will happen on your computer, not the end-user's.

[visual-net]

Hi Bob

If you saved the images as pngs, there won't be a font problem on the end-user's computer.

Hi,

images are good for corporate design, but are not so good for search engines.
It is much more better to have a H1 Heading instead of a well designed Heading because of google.

Michael

[steve.ledger]

This is where the ALT and TITLE attributes for the IMG tag help. Search engines use them.

eg;
<img src=images/heading.gif ALT=Corporate Image name TITLE=My Business name>

[visual-net]

Yes,

of course you are right, but H1 headings are for google more important then img-alt-tags.
So if the graphic do not content real important information for the search-engines they can be used, but if search engine ranking is very important for the one who creates the site i always reccomend to use H1 and H2 headings.
It also depends on what your cometitor has (competitor of the google top 10 ranking) - if he has no H1 heading then it is not so important, but if he does then you are better of to use this H1 headings...

Michael