Fonts and iweb

It works fine when I do the layout, but as soon as I publish it to a map, all the fonts have changed and the text is in different places!! what's wrong?

Arial
Arial Black
Comic Sans MS
Courier New
Georgia
Helvetica
Impact
Times
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Choose fonts from the above list. If you use any others, convert them to an image.

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Font and text handling in iWeb.

Hello, everyone.
How are fonts and text handled by iWeb ? I am now working on a website and have chosen to work with Gil Sans as one of my primary fonts.
Is this font included as default in a standard installation of Windows ? What about OS X ?
In case I create iWeb pages using this font what will happen when I publish these pages ? Will they be preserved as text ? In this case how will this font be handled by Windows and OS X ? Will the OS's replaced the absent font with another one ? What would the selection of a replacement be based on ?
Or will iWeb replace the text created in Gil Sans with an image of the text to ensure that the display of the web page follows my intended format ?
Thank you in advance,
Joseph

Here is a list of websafe fonts:
http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html
You might want to google 'web safe fonts' and compare other lists to that one just to check.
1. I think you're talking about ALT tags. You could do this as a workaround but it would still be slow loading, and search engines would index it as images, so your text would appear in Google images for example. You might also want to consider whether anyone might need to copy and paste any of your text at some point, and whether you'd ever need to print pages (they will be more ink-intensive and lower quality).
2. You can embed fonts in your webpage; however this only works on PCs and Macs running Windows: http://www.sean.co.uk/a/webdesign/embeddingfonts_inwebpages.shtm
Another way around it is to offer an install of the font (check it's shareware and don't forget to offer both Mac and PC versions) and recommend to your visitors that they install it.
Also remember that whichever font you use, a visitor may have altered their browser settings to display your text differently anyway.

Iweb 08 loosing fonts and images

I built my website and uploaded (published) from my laptop. I have begun to lose fonts and images associated with the website as each page comes up with these error messages. A search reveals that the files are still on my computer. Is there a logical explanation for this. Better yet, is there a fix?
Please advise.

The original iWeb turned all of your text into graphic images. That had the advantage that the person viewing the site did not need to have any of the fancy fonts you used to make an attractive web page. It also had the disadvantage of making your site a lot bigger and slower loading, and a lot less adaptable to different screen sizes.
The new iWeb 08 still uses graphic images if you make a shape with the shape tool and type your text into it. But if you use a text box it now puts real text on your site. As a result my site is now about a tenth as big as it used to be, and my friends who still have dial-up internet can use it. (If you want a really small site, avoid the themes that use an image for the background.)
The down side is exactly what you discovered. If you view the site from a computer that is missing a font you used in iWeb, the browser will substitute some other font that is a completely different size, and you end up with text overlapping other text and other ugliness.
My solution was to change all my fonts to either Verdana or Comic Sans MS. Every Windows computer has them, and so do most Macs. Text spacing for Mac and PC is close enough that if you leave a little space inside and around your text boxes they look fine.
I'm surprised that there was font substitution if you were running Mac Firefox on the same computer where you used Safari. Of course if it's a different computer it's doing exactly what I would expect.

Changing link navigation bar font and color

Is it possible to change the font and color on the links for each page on iWeb?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Yes, with the code and a HTML snippet that's described in this tutorial: #24 - How to Change the Basic, Rollover and Visited Color of an iWeb Navbar.
However, if you want to create a site that is more search engine friendly I suggest you create a text based navbar as described in this demo page: Text Based Navbar. If you don't have a lot of pages in your site it's not too difficult.
OT

How can I change the fonts and layout of the blog?

I would like to change the font and font size of my blog. How can I do that so that it stays that way for each new post?

I can't seem to find a way to change the font in the main blog page in iWeb itself... So that's how iWeb blogs normally behave... They don't take the font settings you put in in the entry and they display only one image.
The first (main) Blog page is thought of being an index page and not an actual page where people read the whole post. It's just a page that shows people how many and which entries there are. Then people choose to read the entry by clicking on it.
You might think of reducing the size of the pictures and the length of the text excerpts. So that people click to read more and see the whole entry with all images.
If you don't like the idea of the index blog page and people going into the entry to read you might think of using something else than iWeb to blog...
Regards,
Cédric

Missing font in iWeb template

I'm new to iWeb but am not new to Apple's. I've been experimenting with the Doodle template and whenever I launch iWeb an error message comes down saying that there is a Missing Font which is Handwriting-Dakota. The only option it gives me to resolve this is to find this font and put it in the font folder. My questions are these:
1. Where can I go to download and replace this font because apparently I've deleted it or something?
OR 2. Where do I need to get to inside iWeb to maybe replace the default font for that template?
Please help! I'm driving myself nuts.

I think it's still worth trying to figure out why the font disappeared in the first place. I've seen several posts on missing fonts but no one has yet to determine why they go missing. (at least, not in the threads I've read

Fonts and layout changes

Hi everyone,
tried everything I could think of, but to no avail. Could anyone have a look and tell me why the fonts, layout of the buttons and drop shadows change in a PC Internet Explorer? In Safari (Mac) it all looks ok. In Firefox (Mac) it looks ok, except for the logo placeholder. I'm using web safe fonts and colours. iWeb '09 (3.0.1) Hmmmmm..... Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Robert

IE is notoriously bad. See if the tips from Roddy's iWeb for Musicians site will help. See this page: How to get your iWeb Site to load in Internet Explorer.
OT

Missing font in iweb 09

When I open a page in i web I get an error message saying 'substituted font' the font Cooper Black was substituted for the missing font CooperBlackMS.
It says to add missing fonts add them to your fonts folder and then quit and re open i web.
How do I add these fonts(where do I get them from) to add them to my fonts folder?
Thanks
sconna

Hi,
I suddenly started getting messages in iWeb that said the Font "ArialMT" is substituted for the missing font "Arial".. But it was only happening on new pages I had created.. Can't say what had changed much on my system for this to occur.. But had me baffled because FontBook HAD Arial and NO ArialMT..
Anyway to cut a long story short.. I didn't want Arial as the font anyway as we're changing over to Verdana.. It didn't matter if I selected all on the webpage and changed it all to Verdana, i'd still get the error message regarding ArialMT and Arial..
So my fix was to navigate to: ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/
1. Copy the file "Domain" somewhere else as a backup (desktop is good)
2. Right click on the "Domain" file inside ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/ and Show Package Contents
Now this is where many people say open index.xml.gz and look for the problem fonts.. Well in my experience index.xml doesn't have any code regarding fonts.. SO another folder caught my attention inside "Domain" called "domain-0B29016B-4545-4DC4-9DDB-74AA1E25AJ34.. If you have this folder it will probably have a different string of letters and numbers to mine..
3. Go into your "domain-xxx etc" folder and navigate down to the first compressed xml file you can fint.. I had like 30 because I have almost 30 blog type pages in my site (just the way its designed I guess).. Anyway if you uncompress the .xml.gz file you've found and open that in text edit you'll probably be able to find font information in there.
As I had many to have to find and replace on I found it easier, to select all the .gz files and open them all together which mass uncompressed them in their relative locations.. Then I had to go through and delete the original .gz files otherwise iWeb won't save and publish the code changes you make. In otherwords, you need to have ONLY .xml files left over and iWeb will recompress them when you save in iWeb next.. I also used dreamweaver to mass find and replace the code, but textedit can do it one by one.
Hope this helps anyone having this issue..
I know if I went and made a brand new page in iWeb it will get this font issue again on the new page.. So my next task is to find the original template files and change the font instances in it so new pages don't cause headaches..

Font issue iWeb 3.0.3

Dear all,
I have a problem with displaying some fonts in iWeb 2011.
The vast majority of the fonts in the menu shows the same error.
I have upgraded to a new MacBook Proo 2 months ago and to iLife 2011.
That issue was not occurring before.
I attach a picture below.
Thanks for your help,
Davide

Hi OT,
Thanks for your reply.
Deleting the com.apple.iWeb.plist file resulted into complete "vanishment" of the site.
When launched, iWeb asked me to start from scratch.
Putting back the file got things back to normal.
I have deleted the content in the Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder, but it did not help.
The file (Cache) is still in the bin and I don't know whether I should delete or put back in the folder.
Finally, the validation of the fonts didn't resulted in any improvement.
The font looks still as weird as before.
Looking for any other suggestion.
Best,
Davide

Struggling Between iWeb '06 and iWeb '08

I have had an incredible journey (awful) due to upgrading from iWeb '06 to '08. Suffice to say that I've been working for several weeks to make things work, as this site is for my business. I'm over the lack of information in the manual regarding backing up the Domain.sis file, and I'm over how incompatible the upgrade seemed to be with the previous version.
While I publish my site to .mac (http://web.mac.com/ralphandsarah/LifeCourseMinistries/Home.html), that is not the one I use for public viewing--http://lifecourse.org is the one people see. The .mac site is where a few editors and artists comment and counsel me. Lifecourse.org is for everyone to see and use.
Here's where I am now:
Most of my pages load properly, with two major exceptions: 1) I cannot ftp (Cyberduck) my audio teachings to my lifecourse.org site. I have made a work-around by sending viewers to the .mac site, where it loads properly. I have had to remove any menu bar on that .mac page as all links would keep my viewers within .mac. So I have given them only one choice--click on a Return to LifeCourse Home page link. Rather unprofessional, I would say. Further, for some reason, no audio and no pictures will load at lifecourse.org. I noticed that when publishing to a file from iWeb '08, virtually every file is saved as, for example, lifecourse.org/Home_files, or lifecourse.org/facttoface/html, etc. However, Downloads is saved as lifecourse.org/Downloads. There is no extension, but that's how iWeb '08 saves it to my file for publishing via the ftp program. When I ftp that file, it fails to show up.
2) When viewing my web site from the Firefox browser, there is a regular lack of shading on fonts and pictures and menu bars on all pages (except Speaking Topics); the title of our ministry, LifeCourse has no edge or shading, while Ministries does, even though both are formatted the same; formatting on the page, Who We Are, is terrible from about half-way down; formatting on the page, LifeNotes, is terrible; formatting on the page, What People Say, is terrible; the other pages load properly. View either address (http://lifecourse.org, or http://web.mac.com/ralphandsarah/LifeCourseMinistries/Home.html) with Firefox or Internet Explorer and the results are completely unacceptable. The lifecourse.org site looks fine via Safari, but not through anything else.
Obviously, this site is my business. I have had to discourage people from going to my web site(!), and have now included a link on the Home page for people to download Safari that few, if any, will follow. Frankly, they shouldn't have to. With iWeb '06, they didn't have to. With nearly eight out of ten people arriving to my site via a browser other than Safari, the results have been very discouraging. . .and costly.
What has happened?
What should I do?

Have you tested the integrity of your site by publishing to a folder on the desktop and launching it directly in the browser by double clicking the index.html file?
If this is OK then the problem is with FTP or on the server. Check that all the files in the desktop folder are present on the server.
Tom Gewecke has an excellent page about FTP that you may want to read ...
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebserver.html
I was referring to the time your site takes to download in IE - not Firefox. Once the page loads it sticks when you try to scroll. The main cause of this is page files that are too large and images are usually the biggest problem. Have a look here to see how you can reduce your image file sizes.
http://roddymckay.com/PhotoStuff/PhotoFile.html
I just tried loading the page "Life Notes" in the WWB (my code for IE - the world's worst browser").
The page loads eventually but, this time, it crashed IE when I tried to scroll.

Installed new version of Mac OS x and iWeb won't open

I installed new version of Mac OS x last night and iWeb won't open

I spent an exhausting night testing programs after updating. My iWeb works as expected after the update. No network problems whatsoever. You may want to see if you are connected to the internet. iWeb opens incredibly slowly when there is no connection. Try opening Safari and see if you are surfing normally.
Lion hides the Library folders, probably so users can't mess with them. I downloaded the latest beta of Onyx and was able to get the Library folders to show again.
The only problem I had were some font issues. Do you have a font manager installed? Lion installs its font program and it is set to automatically activate fonts. I turned all autoactivation off.
Lion has no Rosetta and Power PC programs are no longer supported. Do you have the newest version of iWeb installed? I also have been updating my Mac constantly. You may want to run software update and make sure all your programs are current.
Kurt

How do I change font and colors back to default?

I have changed the font and color of the text through the tools button and the options button and the content tab. I find nothing telling me how to change the font and colors back to default font and colors. Can you advise me? I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium OS. Thanks.

Hi Brenda19605,
You can use this article to set the fonts and colors: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-fonts-and-colors-websites-use?esab=a&s=font&r=0&as=s
The default settings for the font are in this article:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Some%20text%20shows%20up%20bold%20after%20upgrade
Unfortunately for the default colors has no good reference. But for text it is black (most lower left) color, background is white (most upper left color). Unvisited links is blue (column 8, row 5) and visited link is purple (column 9, row 5).
Let me know if you need anymore help!
Lordfreak

I am using Illustrator CS5. I am using a certain font and when I make a selection to use one of the letter options or a glyph, it does not take my selection; in other words, nothing changes.

I am using Illustrator CS5. I am using a certain font and when I make a selection to use one of the letter options or a glyph, it does not take my selection; in other words, nothing changes.

What font? What system? What Glyph? What language settings? Could be anything. Either way, ask in the AI forum. You'll get quicker answers there - if you provide all the required info.
Mylenium

Problem with fonts and appearance on firefox

Hello everyone, I have firefox 18 and for a few days Firefox is very unstable ... starts normal, but a second to another entire interface (colors, fonts and website) .. deforms everything .. and I've tried reinstalling the application to delete my session .. and always the same .... someone has an idea of what I can do?
Here a picture of how it looks
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a8wdeo4kpz2jd … 2%3A25.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/liuf8ryjf4c2f … 4%3A54.png
PD: The problem is only with firefox,Chrome is fine..
Last edited by armandopk (2013-01-22 22:41:05)

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How to change DEFAULT font and font size on new Pages document

When I open a new Page document, it always comes in with a default font and font size. I know how to change those settings on the open document.
I want to know how to change the ~default~ font and font size so that a new Page document always opens with those default settings.
-Thanks for your service to the community.

Hi Lionate
Welcome to the forum.
Make a document to your liking.
Change the Body style and any other styles in :
+Menu > Show Styles Drawer > click on the little triangle next to Body > redefine Style from Selection+
Capture the page:
+Menu > Format > Advanced > Capture Pages… > Name it > OK+
+Menu > Format > Advanced > Manage Pages… > Delete other Sections/Pages > OK+
Save as a template:
+Menu > File > Save as Template…+
+Menu > Pages > Preferences > General Preferences > For New Documents > click Use template: > Choose > browse to the template above+
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