Where the 'x' is, put the size. For example, replacing the 'x' w/ "12pt" will give you 12-point font. I don't recall offhand all the formats it can be in, or whether you can use the 1-7 "font size" scheme, or the +/- system.
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Okay, another puzzle. I'm making a new page, and I figured I'd try and make it W3C compliant. But, it doesn't seem to like me using the link to a CSS tag and <div...> tags. Also, it doesn't like the <p> and <dl> tags I have in there, either. What's up with that?
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I closed the div tag. I closed the dl tag. I closed the p tag.
When I close the link tag, it still complains about that and then says that the body tag is invalid. It still complains about the div, p, and dl tags. Even though they're all closed.
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First, listing your font as "Swiss 721 Light BT" will leave everyone stuck reading your site with either Times or Arial (or whatever their default is) -- I don't think that Swiss one is one of the commonly available ones (I don't have it, at least). I would suggest picking something common (and cross-platform ) like Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Times...
I don't think that you need to specify the alignment for a horizontal rule, if you want it centered -- I'm pretty sure that's the default.
All HTML tags are supposed to be lower case. (Check the image tag, for one.)
Using "em" and "strong" instead of the old italics and bold tags would be a bit more forward-thinking, but not required.
And finally, as Charles pointed out, all of your "dd" and "dt" tags need to be closed.
Caveat: I'm hardly an expert in HTML; most of this is what I've picked up from working with Dreamweaver and doing a bit of hand-coding to tweak things. I may be wrong on a few of the suggestions above.
But overall, that's a decent start. I know that MY first web page looked pretty horrible. And I didn't even learn a single tag of HTML until two years after I made that page. (Y'know how I got the LCARS appearance? The graphic was the background, and I just had blank paragraph tags to shift the text down, and used a blockquote to shift it over. Pretty bad... )
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"The graphic was the background, and I just had blank paragraph tags to shift the text down, and used a blockquote to shift it over. Pretty bad..."
No, pretty creative (LCARS interfaces, yegh).
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Well, see, that's the thing: I don't like the default fonts. So, I use Swiss 721. I'm going to put a link to download it somewhere. Anyways. As it stands now, all the tags on that page are closed. But no one seems to be able to tell me why it doesn't like the link and div tags...
Aww... Lookit that. Danny's first page. When did you make the switch to Dan? And you used that horrible, horrible, TNG monitors font... *shudder*
As for my first page, well, I forget what it was to tell you the truth. It's long since gone, though, as it was on GeoCities before The Big Takeover, and I've forgotten the area and number block of Area51 it was in, along with username and password. I have a rather old version of my (used to be) main page somewhere... Aha. Okay, Here's a version of FSP from a few years ago... Forget when. Don't click on any links, 'cause you'll only get 404s. The version I had on VirtualAve is still there (WARNING! Dangerous popups ahead. Enter at own risk). Then I moved to my ISP's server. I haven't done much with that page since, though.
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quote:Originally posted by Topher: Aww... Lookit that. Danny's first page. When did you make the switch to Dan? And you used that horrible, horrible, TNG monitors font... *shudder*
I used that horrible "TNG Monitors Plain" font because that was the only one I could find in my limited Internet forays at that time. (It was 1997, after all... )
And the story behind my change of nicknames is actually kind of interesting. I was always called Danny for the first eighteen years of my life. I never planned on changing it. But when I moved into my dorm on the first day of college, I put "Dan" on my nametag instead -- without thinking too much about it. Since then, I've always introduced myself as Dan, although plenty of my family still call me Danny since that's what they're used to.
Back on topic...
Regarding the fonts, what I'd suggest you do is specify the Swiss font first, and then specify at least one backup font (since a great many of your visitors won't go to the trouble of downloading and installing a whole new font just for your web page). All you have to do is list the two fonts like so:
That will tell browsers to use the Swiss font if it's available, then try Arial, and finally any sans-serif style font. It gives you more control over the presentation.
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BTW, a separate CSS file linked with [link href="url" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"] is a lot easier than using that FONT tag over and over again, or using inline CSS everytime. Topher, instead of putting the HR inside a div with inline CSS, you could use: hr { text-align: center; }
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And mine, actually. Remember my site? It don't work in Mozilla. I also use Javascript and iframes, but the Javascript seems to work, so I'm guessing that's not it. Any clues?
And I don't suppose anyone can give me tips for embedded fonts? They may be more trouble than they're worth, but I'd really like for people to be able to see my sites in Tempus Sans ITC.
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Well, actually, I seem to have fixed it. Amazing, what happens when you fix about a hundred mistakes found by a validator...
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