Thread: Font size

Two different people have told me that my index page title Picture Frames Made Special is messed up on their pc. The word special is on the next line down and hidden behind another group of words. What would make this happen?? Is it a setting on their pc?
Beth

Probably not. It is messed up when I look at it with IE7 too.
Looks like you have made a shape and a text box and placed it over your header, and it is opaque and blocks the header from being seen.

Wow thats frustrating because I don't know how to fix it when I can't see what it is doing??? Can you also tell me what you do see that's lined up right?

http://www.makingreatstuff.com

WEll sionce I don't know how things are supposed to be it is hard to sayu. But, at the header I see 3 textboses:
Making Great Stuff
Picture Frames Made
and Perfect frames made for you boy or ....

The last one is sitting on top of what looks like the word 'Special', not in a text box, on your header.
Does this help?

One way to find out if you ahve accidentally layered something is to rig***lick on the thing and move it back, so see if something else comes forward when you do.. Follow me?

yes I do follow. I'm using firefox and I just checked it using IE7 and it's ok on both. Picture frames made special is all on the same line and it is sitting inside the shape box just like the other 2 text boxes........if the work special has fallen down to the next line on yours and not mine I wonder if it has something to do with whether or not you have on your pc the same font that I used and if not, then it's being substituted with another font automatically and the size is too big?? let me check what I am using to see it you have it...........
Beth

I'm using Bradley Hand ITC size 48..............

Man I can't believe I didn't think of that! You MUST use a web-friendly font or this will undoubtedly happen again and again, as only the people with your font installed will see it right..
Do a forum search as I know there are posts o nthis topic.
Alternatively, you can make a banner using a paint program of some kind (paint.net is good and free download) , use whatever font and image you wantsave it as a jpeg and that will work.

i'm going in now and changing it. will you check again in just a couple of minutes and let me know how it has showed up this time???? thanks
Beth

ok it's done....now how does it look??? thanks for working this out with me.
Beth

Beth It Works!

yippee!!!!! who would have thought that something as simple as that and I've been thinking about it for a while............now I can move onto something else.
Beth

Waahhooooooo!! good detecting!
Good Luck!

ok I just made the box and text into a picture using Microsoft paint....that way you can see the pretty font that I like. haha
does it look ok???
Beth

yes I like that one. but you now have 3 textboxes with three different fonts?

no I have to fix the last text box to match. It matches on mine because it is the bradley hand ITC. It will match soon..........thanks for noticing and bringing it up.
Beth

but am I seeing things or are the makingreatstuff and the #2 box different?

No your not seeing things. The font on MakinGreatStuff is what I always use when I use the term MakingreatStuff. It's the one for my official logo so I try to compliiment it with this other one. Why, don't you think it looks ok?
Beth

Looks good. Just thought I was seeing things. And you are right , theses two fonts are complimentry.
NIce.

thanks bunches. Did you wonder through my web site? It's new and no sales yet so I am open to all suggestions.
Beth

Looked through some, not all, but here are some initial observations..
Lots of stuff on this site, and seems it is easy to find and order things.

Your products show well, and the gallery style thumbnails with click to enlarge is good.

Your headers are different on each page - I get the thematic approach, and agree, but maybe a same logo throughout, on the same place on every page could tie it together.

I have alittle issue with the buttons. First some don't work, and I wish I could be more helpful here but I didn't write all down, only for instance on baby girl page the sports button didn't work for me, and a pet button didn't work somewhere else, too, sorry don't remember where.

And on the front page it says children, and other places, young kids

The dropdown style was easier for me; clicking categories is tidier looking than listing, though I know drop downs aren't so good for SE's.

On the cartoon page the white writing is hard to read on some of the colors, for my tired eyes, anyway.

I know nothing about optimising sites for search engines, or keywords and metatags and like that (my sites are non sale sites) but there are lots of people on this forum who know alot about this. Do a forum search on SEO and read especially Bethers posts; she is aces at this.

Okay that's my nickel's worth..
Good luck.

thank you very much....keywords and meta tags are really complicated. there are varying opinions. I will reread your thoughts and see what changes I should make and I will fix those darn broken links............have a fun day
Beth

Beth
The link in your profile has 2 .. after the www.
http://www..makingreatstuff.com
so it doesnt open.

thanks I just fixed it...............
Beth

Beth,
I'm sorry - when we discussed this before, I didn't even thing that you weren't using an image for your header. If you want to have a header with fancy font (which most of us do) you need to make an image to use for it. If you're happy with making it from text, then yep, you need the friendly fonts.

Should have realized this myself! Sorry.

If you need help with the titles, descriptions, keywords - let me know.

It looks like this!

Your page is not centered. Right click on an empty area and select "Page Properties"
Tick the "Center in Browser" box.