IWeb- website text appears thick or blurry

Hi--When creating my website (web.mac.com/cadirect) the text looks nice and clean in iWeb, but viewed on-line (from my MacBook OR other computers...) the text looks thicker and/or a bit blurry or fuzzy. Any suggestions?

Ok, then that's because of the way Safari renders text as opposed to the Windows browsers. The one that looks the way you expect it to on all browsers is because it's an image and images are generally displayed the same everywhere.
While the text looks like you want it to when converted to an image, it ends up taking longer to download. Plus, if the user wants to enlarge the font on a page using the browser's controls, they won't be able to because it's an image. So it's really a matter of how you want it to look. There's a way to force iWeb to render text as an image but your site will be slower. You can have the text currently displaying as an image display as text, but it will look different depending on the browser you use.
This isn't a new thing, either. That browsers display content differently has been something driving web designers crazy for years upon years. Welcome to their world

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I have tested my website on my laptop using web-kit browsers, IE and Firefox but Firefox alone displays text to be slightly bigger than the rest of the browsers. It has same rendering effects when it comes to images. I tried defining these elements using %, em, px etc but all in vain.
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pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee help
</body>
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Identical in Firefox 31 as in IE8.
Try resetting the Zoom level while viewing that page.
'''{ Ctrl + 0 }'''
[Ctrl plus the '''zero''' keys]

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Here's a screen cap of what I normally see: http://i41.tinypic.com/4tq52a.jpg
I can see websites that appear like that on Chrome as they should appear, but for some reason Firefox gives me all of that mess. It happens a lot on blogs, if that makes a difference. Also, I tried disabling my add-ons, but to no avail. Anyone got any ideas?

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*Use the Filter bar at to top of the about:config page to locate a preference more easily.
*Preferences that have been modified show as bold (user set).
*Preferences can be reset to the default via the right-click context menu if they are user set
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http://www.davidetcoraline.com/
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FrenchDavid wrote:
Is there something I can do to allow that zoom command to work properly ?
David ~ I don't know, but you may be able to find something in the many threads on the topic — click HERE.
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Could something has been brought over that is causing the issue?
Yes! Definitely. I was just getting ready to ask if you had used the MA.
From the Safari Menu click File/Export Bookmarks. Save that file to an external source.
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I have a form produced in Live Cycle Designer ES3 and a website in which we insert test results for our company to a MySql database.
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Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum, so go easy scoundrels..
I've been having this problem for a while - basically, when I view certain pages on safari the text appears all bunched up with disregard to what lines or spacing there should be...
Now, it didn't bother me too much, because it doesn't happen on very many sites (a notable one is imdb.com), but I've recently bought dreamweaver for mac, and previewing sites has become a nightmare, as much of the text doesn't work - and it does when I use dreamweaver preview on other computers... so it must be a fault with my computer, rather than a fault with the websites...
Here is a screengrab of what it looks like - any ideas would be massively appreciated...
http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1hd3.png
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Welcome to Apple Discussions
The two fonts that seem to adversely affect Safari are Helvetica Fractions and Times Phonetic.
Open Font Book in your Applications folder. Enter either of these names in the spotlight panel. If either appears, disable it via the Edit menu.
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I've made a number of iWeb websites. I notice that I can't "Command +" the text larger or smaller. Is this a function of an iWeb site .. or is there something I'm missing?
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http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7152/blurry.jpg
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IWeb- website text appears thick or blurry

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