I’ve almost finished a redesign of a previous site I did…www.bogabainfarm.com
The redesign has been done with Pro5 as a pose to the original with Express4, meaning that I can have html text over graphics. I’ve noticed that some of the text is showing quite pixelated (ie. on the home page with the intro text and the text in the ‘Email List’ box). Does anyone know why this is happening? I am using WebYep on the site but some of the text that is unclear has not been added via it…
Are you talking about the headers like “Email List” and “Latest News”…it’s because they’re being outputted as JPEG’s. You can adjust the slider in the Inspector to adjust the quality of them.
TBH, I think that the site could clean itself up a bit and really utilize the use of HTML color fills. I know you didn’t quite have the flexibility of Pro since you created the whole thing in Express originally, but I’m sure some house-cleaning would be beneficial to the overall crispness to the already pleasing design.
Also, way at the bottom of the site (bottom of the browser window) is a random image of something that doesn’t look like it’s supposed to be there.
Are you talking about the headers like “Email List” and “Latest
News”…it’s because they’re being outputted as JPEG’s. You can
adjust the slider in the Inspector to adjust the quality of them.
… and as they’re text, they should of course be GIFs.
Dan: No I was talking about the actual HTML text, thought I do need to do that to the graphic text too! See this screenshot (http://www.cairngormagency.com/work/bogbain/Picture%202.png) of the text on the home page, that’s what it looked like in my browser, and what I meant by fuzzy text. With regards to the use of colour fills, I’m actually meaningfully avoiding that in some places - trying to achieve a more simple and child-like design and this was the re-design, hence the faults in places. The old design can be seen at http://www.cairngormagency.com/work/bogbain/oldbogbainsite.png
I see it in the PNG links, but I don’t see it on the site itself. You have a span class style (.style56) attached to that text and that style is safe when it comes to typical installed fonts for Mac and PC.
As I said, I don’t see it and I’m on a 23 inch Cinema HD Display.
Perhaps you’re just seeing normal text antialiasing? That’s what it
looks like to me. If that text is slelectable HTML text in your
browser then the effect you’re seeing is standard text rendering
behaviour.
The only way to change that is to use a larger type size. Many
Windows-using visitors will not see that antialiasing at all, but
they may see the Windows variation on that theme.
