[pianotech] My Website

[Richard W. Bushey]

One additional reason to not go "hog wild" with specialty fonts is that, to 
my understanding, there are only a few families of fonts that are "web safe" 
fonts, meaning that most browsers can view them properly.  I tried 
downloading a new font that I used on my truck for advertising, but when I 
went to use it on my website, I found that even though it viewed great on my 
computer (because I had the font installed), that others were having issues 
viewing it.  Their computer reverted to some other font, like Times New 
Roman, or Arial, or something that it could deal with.

Someone more knowledgeable than I could correct me on this if I'm wrong, but 
from what I understand, the person viewing your site must have the same font 
installed on their computer for your page to view correctly as you designed 
it. Times New Roman is likely to be installed on most if not all computers 
and is likely one of the safest to use.  If I download a cool new font, or I 
have a newer computer with nice neat new fonts on it...if I use one of those 
for my website, then the person viewing my website must also have that font 
installed on their computer already.  If they don't, then their computer has 
to fall back on something else.  The problem with that is that every font 
has different size and spacing issues, so when their computer converts it, 
it may mess up all the formatting on the page and your website looks like 
junk to them...text out of place, throws pictures out of line, etc, etc. 
So, it is best....from what I've heard and experienced, to stick with pretty 
common fonts that most everybody would have.

I personally have used Arial for all sites I've build and have not had 
issues....that I know of anyway.




The following is from a webpage I found that describes this.

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http://webdesign.about.com/od/fonts/qt/web-safe-fonts.htm
If you are trying to create a website with fonts that appear on a large 
percentage of computers, then you need to use a "web safe font". While there 
are only a few fonts that are found on virtually every computer out there, 
if you use these fonts in your font stacks, your web pages will look 
correct.

Sans Serif Web Safe Fonts
Here are your best bets for sans serif fonts. If you include these in your 
font stacks, most people will see the page correctly.

  a.. Arial
  b.. Arial Black
  c.. Tahoma
  d.. Trebuchet MS
  e.. Verdana
And some other choices that will give you good coverage, but might miss some 
computers, so include a more common one as a backup in your font stack.

  a.. Century Gothic
  b.. Geneva
  c.. Lucida
  d.. Lucida Sans
  e.. Lucida Grande
Serif Web Safe Fonts
Here are some of your best bets for serif fonts.

  a.. Courier
  b.. Courier New
  c.. Georgia
  d.. Times
  e.. Times New Roman
And here are some other choices that will give you some coverage, but you 
should include a more common one as a backup.

  a.. MS Serif
  b.. New York
  c.. Palatino
  d.. Palatino Linotype
Monospace Fonts
There are not as many monospace fonts that have wide acceptance across 
platforms. These are your best bets:

  a.. Courier
  b.. Courier New
And these fonts have some coverage.

  a.. Lucida Console
  b.. Monaco
Cursive and Fantasy Fonts
There is only one cursive font that is available on Windows and Macintosh, 
but not on Linux: Comic Sans MS. There are no fantasy fonts that have good 
coverage across browsers and operating systems.

Smart Phones and Mobile Devices
If you are designing pages for mobile devices, you have even fewer choices. 
I could find no common fonts for Android devices - instead you should use 
the @font-face tag to import the fonts you want to use. And for iPhone, 
iPod, and iPad devices, the common fonts include:

  a.. Arial
  b.. Courier
  c.. Courier New
  d.. Georgia
  e.. Helvetica
  f.. Palatino
  g.. Times New Roman
  h.. Trebuchet MS
  i.. Verdana
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Richard W. Bushey
Richard's Piano Service
www.RichardsPianoService.com
www.RichardsPianoService.com/blog
Rbushey at RichardsPianoService.com

573-765-9903



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett at earthlink.net>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] My Website


> John F. said:
> "One thing you might think about is changing the font. Times New Roman is
> somewhat antiquated for the web. IMHO, of course. :-)
>
> Unless you're wanting to keep the font for style reasons. I.e., "Old World
> Craftsmanship.""
>
> John,
> It does convey that, in my mind. And, that is exactly what I want it too. 
> A
> lot of these fancy smancy fonts, etc., tend to detract from the message
> intended on a website. I want to have the potential client read my
> information in comfort.<G>
> Thanks for the input. Much appreciated.
> Best,
> Joe
>
>
> Joe Garrett, R.P.T.
> Captain of the Tool Police
> Squares R I
> 


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