[Pro] tried it all. bold type persists. please, somebody

Hi Peeps,

I have read so many solutions to the problem of persistent bold styling on type specified as normal in styles palette. I understand that H tags are initially bold, and have tried implementing the changes to Extended dialogue box (e.g font-weight:normal), also I have checked for any overriding styles accorded to master page etc. I’m at a complete loss here. Perhaps I’ve not understood the differences between class styles and tags.

Desperately
James Morrison


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Can you check (by selecting your suspect text) that you don’t have more than one style applied?

This might be where the problem lies.

If you’re using Freeway Pro, look in the inspector palette and it can quickly show what styles are applied to an object or run of text.

One way is to select your text and apply no style and re-apply your style from your style sheet.

David

On 5 Jan 2011, at 21:06, “james morrison” email@hidden wrote:

Hi Peeps,

I have read so many solutions to the problem of persistent bold styling on type specified as normal in styles palette. I understand that H tags are initially bold, and have tried implementing the changes to Extended dialogue box (e.g font-weight:normal), also I have checked for any overriding styles accorded to master page etc. I’m at a complete loss here. Perhaps I’ve not understood the differences between class styles and tags.

Desperately
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Yes I just checked that and there is nothing other than what I have specified. The strange thing is that it appears as verdana in the program, and as helvetica (which is the intended font family) once previewed. Will happily run through any proposed troubleshoots as soon as they are suggested.


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Hi James, is it live anywhere so people can look at your css
ps it would also help if you have external style sheets turned on too

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Also check that any amended styles are in fact publishing. One way of doing this is to empty and re-publish.

Is this style something you created as a style in the styles palette? Or ad hoc styling using just menus (usually ending in a jumble of styles)

Removing all styles and then adding a definitive style from the style palette can help.

David Owen

On 5 Jan 2011, at 21:52, “james morrison” email@hidden wrote:

Yes I just checked that and there is nothing other than what I have specified. The strange thing is that it appears as verdana in the program, and as helvetica (which is the intended font family) once previewed. Will happily run through any proposed troubleshoots as soon as they are suggested.


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Is it just in your published Freeway site? Are other sites you visit in bold too? Perhaps italicized?


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Hi Max, I have just managed to host this temporarily on a friend’s hosting account and here the specified text actually appears sans bold, exactly as intended. I find this strange but it seems to be some issue with preview. I plan to arrange my own account in the next two days and so will return to ask about proper protocol for generating style palettes etc then as I still find this awkward. Please find the link below, step right up step right up to watch at the freak type doing it’s thing:

Thanks for the rapid response people

James

On 5 Jan 2011, 8:58 pm, max wrote:

Hi James, is it live anywhere so people can look at your css
ps it would also help if you have external style sheets turned on too

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James

If you need some Freeway Friendly web hosting you could try here:

David

On 5 Jan 2011, at 22:57, “james morrison” email@hidden wrote:

I plan to arrange my own account in the next two days


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Are you using any kind of font managers on your Mac there?


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Ok, I now have my own account, thanks David, I have used ineedwebhosting previously and happily returned to it for this site. It seems the problem is still here. I’ll gladly turn external style sheets on if this helps,not sure how though. In the meantime:

http://79.170.44.156/udio.co.uk/

This links to the rough page with the culprit text. This is driving me crazy


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Hi James

Nice speaking to you this morning.

Looks like your style ~ h2.TargetLink has font-weight:bold

You could create a style with font-weight: normal (in the extended section of the styles palette then apply it to the surrounding div called: item2

Just out interest, your block of text on the right is set to use a H2 tag ~ these should ideally not be used for large runs of text, only headings. H “heading” tags are wanting to use bold as its a heading.

This is my MAIN PAGE heading to explain the following Page

this is my Page text into blah.. blah... blah...

This is my sub-heading to explain the following body text

this is my body text to this sub heading blah.. blah... blah...

This method help to give “weight” to important parts of the page for the search engines.

David Owen

On 6 Jan 2011, at 10:24, james morrison wrote:

Ok, I now have my own account, thanks David, I have used ineedwebhosting previously and happily returned to it for this site. It seems the problem is still here. I’ll gladly turn external style sheets on if this helps,not sure how though. In the meantime:

http://79.170.44.156/udio.co.uk/

This links to the rough page with the culprit text. This is driving me crazy


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I don’t use either font, but Freeway automatically substitutes Helvetica Regular with Arial Regular.

I created a web page in Freeway and drew an html box with only one line of type. Helvetica was specified in the inspector and the page previewed in Safari. In the source, this was the code for the style:

‘style3 { font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:150% }’

It seems that Freeway substitutes Helvetica for Arial. I managed to get Helvetica working by messing about in Edit>Font Sets, but it’s not ideal.


I’m not bothered about Helvetica/Arial, but I would like to use Tahoma. It’s a very legible font and ideal for web pages, but it can’t be used in Freeway sites because it doesn’t appear in Freeway’s Font menu. I’m guessing it’s an encoding problem. I could probably work round this by opening Tahoma in Fontographer and generating a new font, but again, it’s not ideal.


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Remember that Helvetica is not a Web Safe font - it may be pretty ubiquitous on Macs but not so on PCs

Yes Editing Font sets is a feature which should be used and there are ‘standard’ font sets available when you open a new document. You can create and specify your own.

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Make a new font set called Tahoma and make that the first choice but add substitutes in case the visitor doesn’t have Tahoma, like Tahoma, Verdana, Ariel.

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