To the webmonkeys out there

[karohemd]

I'm trying to throw together a basic website for Die Fabrik (no date yet but I can start on content) and would like to use a fancy font I found for the title and menus. As this is a font very few people will have, is there a way of hosting it on the site so the page will display correctly?
I guess otherwise I'll have to create buttons and graphics.

Cheers!

Comments

[naranek.livejournal.com]

I've always just used graphics - even if people have the font, there's no guarantee their web browser will render (or name) it correctly.

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

Have a look at this, and see if it makes sense.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*nods*
I thought that might be the case. Cheers.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

If you store the font on your server, you can have a script running in the header tags that will download it (like a flash plug in) when they go to the site. I would create a main style sheet, link it across and have a traditional back up font though, just in case the users decide not to go clicky :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*nods*
I'll stick to graphics, I think as I want to keep the site as simple as possible.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

Script + font will definitely increase page loading time. (Which is teh suck..)

What's the site for?

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

Script + font will definitely increase page loading time.

So will graphics, possibly by quite a bit more!

(OTOH graphics stands a better chance of working right now, but without trying it out you can't really tell whether the font option will fly.)

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

True that, I agree the graphics option will probably work better. Too many people are paranoid to download things from websites thanks to dirty, dirty spyware companies.

Fuckers, ruin it for the rest of us

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

The site is for Die Fabrik, an Industrial/Electro/Noise club night I'm setting up in Cambridge.

Thanks for your help, people!
Graphics it is.