We are working with digital signage software that is pretty much based on HTML. I have generated a code for date and time from free time and date site, which is nice, and it has our language (serbian) supported.
However, there are a few fonts that are predefined which can we chose, none of which is pretty font. I wanted to know if its possible to add a code into it which can call a custom font which i uploaded on our personal storage. Im not that good with HTML, and seeing that this might be the best site for HTML problems on internet i thought that i might ask here
Here is the code:
<iframe src="http://free.timeanddate.com/clock/i4c0bglr/n3395/tlrs36/fn10/fs36/tct/pct/tt0/tb4" frameborder="0" width="504" height="86" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
thnx in advance
Yes, you can add custom fonts to your CSS.
It's a little bit tricky to get it right, because you need to convert your font file to 5 different file-types, and you then have to get your font-declarations just right. There are tools for this, but I haven't found one that does everything exactly right yet. Here is one.
If you are, as you say, not good with HTML, I would personally recommend Google Web Fonts. It's the easiest way of getting the results that you need fast.
EDIT:
Pure HTML font selection:
<font face="Helvetica">Text text text</font>
(only system fonts)
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I'm looking for a way to practice CSS and HTML without worrying about whether the backend works or not, or whether or not I have to make the content. I've played around with javascript and node.js a bit, and although I feel like I have a (very) rudimentary understanding of it, I feel as if I should be learning HTML and CSS correctly before messing more with the backend.
Is there a good place to just write CSS and HTML? How did you learn them?
Is there a code editor I should be using (specifically for HTML layouts and CSS layouts) besides Sublime Text?
Well, first of all, you do not worry about how backend works if what you want is to practice CSS and HTML.
Easy steps to play around with HTML and CSS:
create a new file, say index.html. Then, just double click on that file or open with.. your favorite browsers (Chrome, Safari, Opera, Mozilla, or IE).
If you want CSS, you can attach it to the index.html by using <link rel="stylesheet" href="file.css">.
Note : You would only need Node.js when you are dealing with AJAX method like using XMLHttpRequest or $.ajax() method due to CORS (Cross Domain Policy. Other than that, just play around with HTML and CSS with the browser.
My Personal Journey to the Front End Web Development
About me
I am currently working as a full time Front End Web Developer and I self-studied coding for 2 years now (I started this in June 2012) from almost zero knowledge about coding. When I started this, HTML5 and CSS3 were briefly introduced to the public so I learned HTML4 beforehand.
Web is fairly a big topic if we talk about the full stack integration (from the browser to the server to the database). If you are into the front end (HTML/CSS/Javascript), start off with some online tutorials (link below), then try to create your own web product (it could be a website or a web app). Try to improve a bit by a bit, and if you ever get stuck, you can always google search your problem and try to find the solution online (usually StackOverflow).
About Text Editor
I think the best way to learn is to get your hands dirty with minimal code help as possible. This will force you to remember most of the syntax and in turn increase your productivity. I was using Notepad++ but then switched to Sublime Text (Currently Sublime Text 3), and is my favorite text editor up until now. I know my co-worker is using emacs or vim that has a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Personally, Sublime Text is good enough to write HTML and CSS. Link: http://www.sublimetext.com/3
I started learning HTML and CSS from these links:
Paid
http://www.codeschool.com
Free
http://www.codeacademy.com
http://code.org
Hope it helps,
Yanuar Wibisono
Have you looked at w3schools html and CSS tutorials ?
They have a very handy "Try it yourself" button which allows you to try out your own code and see the results very quickly. The tutorials themselves are also well written with plenty of example code.
For HTML and CSS, I would recommend the text editor Microsoft WebMatrix, which is a standard program for Windows. For learning HTML and CSS, check out http://codeacademy.com. It's one of the best places to learn HTML, CSS and a bunch of other coding languages.
I have a Windows 7 with service pack 1, and Internet Explorer 10. And I have my site, http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/ . It looks great on Chrome, Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer. For starters, I wanted to test how my site looks using IETester, and it's a mess (please compare by clicking the link above):
The thing is, I think that maybe the issue could be that IE8 doesn't load well from <object> tags, is that it? I use three object tags to load the three white parts: header, vertical menu, and "site log" (you can see them here: http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/header.html , http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/verticalmenu.html , http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/thesitelog.html)
To load those three sites, I use the following code:
This one for the header, <object type="text/html" data="http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/header.html" width="100%" height=185></object>
This one for the menu, <object type="text/html" data="http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/verticalmenu.html" height=484 width=100%></object>
And this one for the log, <center><object type="text/html" data="http://www.gfcf14greendream.com/thesitelog.html" height=600 width="90%"></object></center>
Please let me know if anyone has any ideas concerning this "mess". Thank you!!
This isn't a real answer (It's a quick and careless answer at best, so don't take it too seriously)
But I just thought I'd mention that the the W3C markup validator might be useful to you if you don't already know about it.. It catches bad markup practices or errors on your page and can give you more information on how to fix them. At the time of writing, your front page alone has 10 errors and 3 warnings on it. Maybe this could point you in the right direction?
upon a quick skim of your page you don't seem to be utilising CSS properly. That is to say, that I see you are using css but you have elements on your page (use of <center> HTML tags, inline styling and things like that) that go against the grain of why CSS was invented.
If you haven't already seen the CSS zen garden, take a quick read/look at it. It should set you right on why we use CSS instead of tables and alignment tags.
(People sometimes don't get this immediately, but , click the links on the right in the zen garden. The same HTML and page content are completely restyled using one html file and seperate CSS sheets)
Good luck!
Edit:
Oh, I almost forgot to mention that internet explorer 8 doesn't have much (if at all) HTML5 compatibility. If you want to develop websites and web apps in HTML5 you'll be hard pressed to serve your I.E 8 visitors and may end up spending more time fixing bugs than you are developing the content.
Some developers are already boycotting I.E 8 entirely to usher in the new era of the web with HTML5 and CSS 3. There are a few js compatibility libraries out there (like excanvas for the new <canvas> element for example) but they don't work flawlessly and you will eventually have to draw the line somewhere. (lol. canvas.. draw line.. get it?) That being said, i did find this article and this may be useful to you:
turn-on-html5-in-ie8-or-lower
Not every website requires HTML5 and it's new technologies, but if you plan on using it for things like the <canvas> tag, Id suggest (from my own personal opinion) you forget about I.E 8 and concentrate on browsers that utilise it.
Remember that you can make checks in your HTML to see what browser version your visitor is using.
You can see if they are using an incompatible browser, and if so, you can then alert them that their software is out of date and suggest to them alternatives (such as chrome or firefox)
There's a bunch of tutorials on-line about this, here's the first decent looking one I found in a quick Google search this article covers using this technique for seperate CSS sheets but there are others that talk about the problem I mentioned in more depth and I'm sure you can probably figure out how to do it anyway once you read the article.
Either way, I'd say you've got a little bit of reading ahead of you to understand why your humble website does not work in an increasingly obsolete browser.
Again, good luck to you in your future endeavours.
Edit was too harsh:
Having looked a the site I would start by suggesting in future you think about design from a users perspective - the colour scheme you're using isn't very friendly on the eye, the red text against the green is particular troublesome to people with red/green color blindness, you also should consider how your content is presented.
End Edit:
However, regarding your IE issues.
First things first, with any work is getting a firm plan of what you hope to achieve and setting a good groundwork before starting. With HTML that means leveling the playing field with regard to browser quirks, and to achieve that, you use a reset css file.
This ensures that all browsers (as close as possible) behave in more or less the same way, regarding padding, spacing, line heights etc, and can go along way to prevent these sort of problems from happening, and allow you to achieve consitancy.
There's more info at the link below.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
Secondly your HTML version - your declaring HTML5 but then use HTML4 values and attributes - basically your site (as pointed out above) is not valid markup.
I inherited a webpage to manage at work. I needed to add a new button so simply edited the existing jpeg to include the button and added a hyperlink to the jpg to open the link.
In Chrome, Firefox etc. all is well but now I get a weird formatting on IE.
I am NOT a web developer and am perplexed.
Thank you in advance for your help and advice.
The website is www.kimberleyjackson.com.
Sincerely,
Jason
That page is not really HTML, it's using Word-generated VML which as you see is ancient and deprecated technique.
The only thing I can suggest is to rewrite the page using "pure" HTML without all this fancy and deprecated stuff.
As you're not a web developer I fear you'll have to hire one - web page should be developed by web developer, not by document processing software.
Like above people have said, this is not going to be an easy page to maintain. That being said... is your new image the same size as the old image? If not, that may be causing misalignment. What changes exactly did you make?
I stumbled on a site yesterday and forgot to bookmark the url. I'm stumped though because google is not helping me trace my steps. The site was basically a text to image converter for preserving your specific fonts in the browser. What made this one unique was that the text was fully selectable, however what was being displayed was the image that was generated using the desired font.
They required a subscription to their service so I disregarded it and moved on. Turns out I left too quickly and I'm interested in trying the product now. Does anyone know what website I stumbled upon, and if they have experience with it?
BTW, I'd recognize the link if I saw it. It was something like freemefont.com or something like that.
Thanks
You may mean cufón: Take a look here. It's at least something like you describe, you upload fonts, and it generates javascript to render the same or as close as possible I guess, as those fonts would.
I'm using TypeKit for that - they don't really create images, but rather supply a font via CSS.
Here's a list of commercial webfont service:
fontspring
kernest
typekit
typefront
typotheque
if it's not one of these you stumbled on you can try the free alternatives (harder to setup) listed in the other answers.
Ill add to the (free) ones already proposed a php based one:
PCDTR
Do you mean Facelift? http://facelift.mawhorter.net/
Another alternative, which I'm pretty sure you don't mean, is sIFR: http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/
these links should help you out
link1
link2
(Beginner to HTML)
I have made a Photoshop mock-up of the website I want to make, but the text I have used in the mock-up looks different when viewed in Firefox. The text is Arial font, size 18pt and regular weight, and I have implemented this into HTML code, but it looks different.
Is there a way to make the font look the same in HTML as it does in Photoshop?
Thanks in advance :)
The short answer is "no". Photoshop has a lot more font functionality than a web browser. It applies all kinds of smoothing algorithms, and you can control kerning, tracking and spacing much better.
Each browser and OS has a distinct rendering engine as well, so even if you could get it the same in one browser/OS combination, it would look different in another.
However, check out all the CSS properties for text to see if you can get something you're able to live with. If not, your best bet is to just make an image out of your text and add it to your page with good "alt" text and such.
I'm not sure what OS you're on, but Windows and Macintosh have different font systems.
This post by Joel Spolsky points out that the font rendering is based on philosophical differences.
Is that what you're seeing? Please post images so we can see what you're talking about.
Fonts are something you simply can't get right on the web. If you absolutely have to control the look of fonts, then you have to use images (and get beaten for it, rightly so). It's simply not possible to achieve pixel-perfect text display in HTML. This starts with differences in fonts the operating system has and ends with differences in browser layout engines.
There are two ways to do it:
Take an image of that font and use it in the layout.
Use a custom font creation tool like SIFR or FLIR. This is a tricky option b/c you need to own Adobe Flash and you need to have the distribution rights to the font (similar to books, music, etc.).
Basically, if you want to have it look exactly the same and still stay standards compliant, this is really almost impossible.
If you're looking for how to turn Adobe Photoshop mockups into HTML documents, you should check out the screencast series on CSS-tricks.com, run by Chris Coyier, a very talented designer (no it's not me :) ).
Another thing that you will have to understand is that it is the people with the Web browsers that ultimately control how your page will look. So no matter how much fiddling you do to get a website the way you want to see it, it will view differently on someone else's computer
If you need perfect, crystal clear font matches you can use flash... but that comes with a whole boatload of downsides.