After visiting Novelist in Training again this Thursday I was inspired to tweak my template a tad. I think her blog is beautiful. Everything looks so neat and tidy. Especially those menus in the sidebar; they’re so pretty!
I downloaded the image headlines attachment that turns your post titles into images so that you can use a fancy font, shadows, and you know there won’t be rendering problems. I have it installed but I didn’t insert it into the php because I thought that, for prettiness sake, it would be going a bit too far to generate images for every heading. I was going to make headings for the sidebar as well but that would mean that every time someone loaded my page they’d have to be downloading at least seventeen images, including the background, header, footer and headings. Talk about slow! Then I realised that you can do fancy fonts with CSS, the only problem is that they’ll only show up as fancy if the person looking at the page has that font loaded on their computer. The font I’m currently using is Dauphin, the same as the title in the header of the blog. I’d be very interested to know how many people actually have that font and see this page the way I do, or if it just comes out as Times New Roman. The problem with this system is that Dauphin is smaller than Times and other serif fonts so if you don’t have it the headings probably look too large.
Sorry, that was boring. Go visit these guys, they’re hilarious!
I’ve never been to this blog (until now). I really like your colors. :heart:
I love it, nice and clean!
Awww. Thank you. And thanks a ton for the link. I still love your template, though–especially the header. But then, I told you all that already!
As for the fancy font, it doesn’t show up as anything special. It’s not too big, though. At least, not distractingly so. I do like Dauphin, though. May have to go find it on a font downloads site. And here I thought I had all the fonts out there!
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This is my first visit, what a lovely site! Yes, I have Dauphin, it’s one of my favorite fonts :up:
That would explain why Novelist in Training’s blog took absolutely FOREVER to load, as I was strolling through Thursday Thirteen blogs. The actual part with the content I thought was never going to come up.
Yeah, I’m still one of those crazy people still on dialup.
I did wait around to see what she had to say because her blog title piqued my interest. It’s a great idea to render fonts as images as you mention, so that way people don’t have to have the font loaded, but it will take forever for some people to view and they may decide just to click off a blog instead of waiting around. You page loaded pretty fast. 🙂
You have the same “tweaking” itch syndrome. I am constantly tweaking my blog too. I think the Theme Switcher is a good idea, I might incorporate that into my site but with different color themes instead. Have to think about it. I have the Dauphin font, as I am seeing it as just you described.
Hey, Cass,
If you have a problem with a page loading, sometimes it’s good to let the blogger know that there’s an issue, because they might not be aware of it, and then they can look into it. It’s not always fun to point it out, but I’ve never met anyone who’s unappreciative of it. I will see what I can do to make things load faster. The page is pretty fast on my computer, but I do have DSL. 🙂
Kristarella, I hope you don’t mind me commenting on this!