Today’s post features the third Cascading Style Sheet(CSS) Video Tutorial on font usage. The video is just over 4 minutes in length.
One important aspect of web publishing is effectively applying font treatments to make text more readable. With a few adjustments to fonts, the readership of a site will find it easier to assimilate the important information shared with them.
The tutorial shows how to apply several different font attributes to create a more unique and design centered presentation. While the web has some built-in limitations, these techniques will free you from the constraints of the default templates common in many blog applications.
Font Treatment – CSS Video Tutorial #3
Web Safe Fonts
As mentioned in the video, the following is a short list of some basic fonts to choose for a website:
- Arial, Arial Black
- Comic Sans MS
- Courier
- Georgia
- Impact
- Lucida Console
- Palatino,Book Antigua
- Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif
- Times New Roman, Times, serif
- Trebuchet MS,Helvetica,Verdana
- Symbol,Webdings
- Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats
Let me know if this tutorial is helpful. If you have any other questions about fonts, leave a comment as well and I’ll do what I can to answer them as efficiently as possible. You can take styles in many directions and make simple changes that will spruce-up your site. At the same time they can get very complex especially when tweaking an existing style sheet. Go for it, just be patient with yourself as it takes a while to get the hang of it.
One important tip: before beginning tweaks to a stylesheet, copy and paste the style sheet into Notepad and save to your desktop. Each time you make significant changes and it works well, save another copy. This way if you muck it up, it won’t take you but a minute to reverse it and then wait until a later time to try again.
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