My website font!

Hello all,

I recently changed my website font because the other font was a little to hard to read. lol! I have a new font and I want to know what you guys and gals think of it. Like, is it o.k., good, crap, need a different font, etc.....

Let me know your thoughts on my font please!  

Thanx

www.blockboyradio.com

The first snapshot "blockboyradio1.png" is the old font.

The second snapshot "font snapshot.png" is the new font.

While changing the fonts, you should be careful to choose a font thats available on all platforms by default. Otherwise this will make your pages render differently on different machines.

 Thanks for the answer. Did it show on your browser correctly? Actually, what do you mean by all platforms? I quietly don't understand what you mean by that.

Well, I guess this thread didn't help me out at all! Lmfao! I tried though and thanks.  

It doesn't display, because that is a font unavailable on any platform by default.  You're using an old and failed method of specifying a font only available on your machine.  You need to use CSS3 fonts, or a generic font, such as sans-serif.

Also, keep in mind that the font you want to use isn't the best for readability.  I recommend against using it for actual paragraph text, or something people actually need to read.

sorry for the report i hit the button on accident.

nathan thanx for the reply!

thats very true about my font its kind ok hard to read when its in para graph or any kind of text. i will keep that in mind. i am just goin to use a simple font for now 

thanx

Hello everyone

I just change my font to Arial black! I took the advice of Nathan Paton. Now I want to know what you all think of my new font? Is it better than the other font i had in my earlier post?

Just for fun! I like to know what ppl think lol!

My new font is in the attachment below. Check it out!

Arial Black isn't available on all platforms, so remember to also use the basic three as fall-backs:

font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 

Again, CSS3 web fonts would be the best approach, since any modern browser should be able to handle them.

Ok thanks Nathan! I am going to go do that now.

Actually how can I do that without changing the font I have now? lol I thought I knew, how too.

 does anybody know how to insert this without messing up the font i already have

thanks for the help

Sounds like you're just starting out so here are a few very very basic things for you to keep in mind. "Browser safe fonts" are fonts that will work and look the same no matter what computer system (mac or pc) your users are on and no matter what browser your users are using (firefox, opera, i.e., chrome, etc.). Here's a list & description along w/ images: http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

If you aren't sure how to code the font the way that Nathan told you, then you probably want to read up on some basic font css coding: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp (there are multiple chapters, I recommend them all... along w/ all of w3schools stuff!). The format he showed you allows you to have several font styles so that if one fails, the browser can default to the next in line. You'll put the font you want to show up first and then several alternate choices (as close in style to the first one) after. So you'd use Arial Black first if you want that to show up, then if that doesn't work it'll load Arial, then Helvetica, then standard sans-serif:

font-family: Arial Black, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 

Good luck.

Just add Arial Black before those.  The browser will load the font in that order, so if Arial Black doesn't exist, Arial (or an Arial replacement) will load, and so on.

Sounds good and simple.

Thank you all for the help!