My 1st web site, needs checking?

hi
Ive built my 1st web site and its for a driving school, the problem ive got is for some unknown reason on a friends pc his default font takes over and pushes it all out of size, i have used times new roman on my html style sheets and it all looks good on other friends browsers.

could you please have a look if you have the time and post if it looks ok,

kind regards
Manny

link taken down now, once again thanks for the advise and feedback

Looks blooming fine to me mate :slight_smile:

looks ok to me ( using Firefox ) :wink:

Looks fine to me Manny.

What is your friend using for his browser?

Looks fine to me, but no Trucknetuk on the links page?!?!■■

Thanks people

Good to see its ok on firefox, colingl he is using IE, dont know what hes done but the font comes up ariel size 3 realy strange.

smcaul there is i link to trucknet on the links page plus its mentioned on the home page aswell.

Anyway thanks for taking the time to have a look.

Regards

Manny

As the rest have said it looks goodd manny :smiley: .

manny:
smcaul there is i link to trucknet on the links page plus its mentioned on the home page aswell.

Anyway thanks for taking the time to have a look.

Regards

Manny

Oops, sorry, missed it, Very professional looking site though. :smiley:

That’s a very clean site - nice one!

Once thing you might consider doing on future websites is to make your style-sheet external - don’t embed the styles into every page. That way you can change the whole look of a site simply by changing one or two external style-sheets, rather than the laborious task of editing the styles on every page.

Regarding your friend’s font problem. It could be something simple, like he’s missing Times New Roman on his PC - although that is unlikely. You should always provide alternative fonts in any style-sheet, just in case a viewer doesn’t have the font on their PC. CSS will drop down to the next font, and the next and so on - until finally using the browser/PCs default.

Also, when specifying a font size it’s sometimes better to explicitly specify pixels, points, Etc. Rather than the more obscure size=2 you have used. Points being the “standard” choice here.

So, taking a simple style-controlled line from your HTML:

<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#333366 size=2>At Alan's 
            Driving School we believe that you deserve the highest 
            possible
   standard of training. That's why all our 
            courses are tailored to your
   individual needs from 
            start to finish. </FONT></P>

You can add some measures to ensure smooth transition to other fonts should the viewer not have the initial font, and also specifying a point based font-size by doing:

<P><FONT face="Times New Roman,Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Geneva,MS Sans Serif" color=#333366 size=10pt>At Alan's Driving School we believe that you deserve the highest 
            possible
   standard of training. That's why all our 
            courses are tailored to your
   individual needs from 
            start to finish. </FONT></P>

This way you safeguard against viewers not having your initial choice of font - as their browser will gracefully step to the next font, and the next and so on. The choice of fonts I’ve given here is quite wide, and should be available on 99% of PCs - certainly if they are running MS Windows.

Using explicit point sizes (in this example 10pt) is cleaner and more flexible too - and 10pt is equivalent to the more obscure size=2 you originally used.

Now you can see the benefits in using a single external style-sheet! One change would do your whole site - and external style-sheets are more powerful than embedded ones too! :wink:

Hope that helps a little.

Manny, there are settings for fonts in IE properties. I would look to see if his langauge script is set to Latin Based, that should include Times New Roman.

cheers colin i’ll have a look when im there next.

Once again thanks to all that had a look and thanks for the advise and the sample code.

Kind regards

Manny