Letters look ugly

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Harry Limey
Apr 27, 2006
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"bary" wrote in message
Can someone please look at mt site www.triplebit.com and advise what can I do to make the navigation bar letters look mor nice (especially the word "Home" at the right side)?

Thanks in advance for any reference.

Bary
The words need to be in editable text format (they are pictures of words at the moment – gif or jpg!) The same with Triplebit – they will be much sharper and clearer then – If you had applied some filter to enhance the way they look there would be some point in them being in graphic form!!
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John Rampling
Apr 27, 2006
Harry has answered your question but please note that your layout has bad errors viewed in Firefox although it’s OK in Internet Explorer. This is probably caused by incorrect code due to using Microsoft FrontPage. Use an HTML validator to correct it.

John

"bary" wrote in message
Can someone please look at mt site www.triplebit.com and advise what can I do to make the navigation bar letters look mor nice (especially the word "Home" at the right side)?

Thanks in advance for any reference.

Bary

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Kingdom
Apr 27, 2006
"John Rampling" wrote in
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Harry has answered your question but please note that your layout has bad errors viewed in Firefox although it’s OK in Internet Explorer. This is probably caused by incorrect code due to using Microsoft FrontPage. Use an HTML validator to correct it.

John

"bary" wrote in message
Can someone please look at mt site www.triplebit.com and advise what can I do to make the navigation bar letters look mor nice (especially the word "Home" at the right side)?

Thanks in advance for any reference.

Bary

To continue on from Johns advice using Frontpage as an html editor is a waste of time, Frontpage is designed to use its built in themes and uses its own propriotory coding, try adding in a theme instead of your nav bar or use another editor that produces standard html like Dreamweaver.

Re your navbar it’s just not made properly try google for photoshop tutorials buttons or nav bars

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bary
Apr 27, 2006
Can someone please look at mt site www.triplebit.com and advise what can I do to make the navigation bar letters look mor nice (especially the word "Home" at the right side)?

Thanks in advance for any reference.

Bary
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Tacit
Apr 27, 2006
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"bary" wrote:

Can someone please look at mt site www.triplebit.com and advise what can I do to make the navigation bar letters look mor nice (especially the word "Home" at the right side)?

It’s not absolutely necessary to set them as HTML text; it’s quite common for menu bar buttons and text to be a graphic, for example so that rollover buttons will work.

I don’t think that the letters are particularly ugly or particularly attractive. If you are dissatisfied with them, you might try using a different font, a different antialiasing setting in the Text palette, or both.

However, you are using Microsoft Front Page. While people like Front page because it is cheap and easy, you should be aware of the fact that you have chosen to use an inferior quality tool that is very, very infamous for writing crap HTML. You probably only look at your site using Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows, so you do not know about the problems it has. Many people who do not use Internet Explorer 9which includes anyone who is concerned about computer security and does not want to be overrun with computer viruses) do not use Internet Explorer. Those people will not see your site the way you designed it, because of the flaws in Front page and the fact that it writes poor HTML.

I strongly, strongly advise you to stop using Front Page.

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Nicholas Sherlock
Apr 27, 2006
bary wrote:
Can someone please look at mt site www.triplebit.com and advise what can I do to make the navigation bar letters look mor nice (especially the word "Home" at the right side)?

The problem is that your images are being resized by the HTML (Which gives terrible quality). Shown at their original sizes, they’d be just fine.

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Nicholas Sherlock

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roxy
May 4, 2006
Nicholas,

Can you clarify? How does the html get resized, and how can you previt it? And how, if you create a gif at a certain number of pixels, use absolute positioning, how does the browser change those pixels?

I’m confused, am also troubled by the lousy gif quality I get when I upload. If I use html only, everything looks great, except on netscape where the text doesn’t appear at all! I’m guessing it’s because I’m using the spacebar to separate the text to give it an inline look. I haven’t been able to create an inline list, which is probably what I should do, no?

I am using dreamweaver, is it as bad as frontpage? I’m writing a lot of my own code now, but have a looong way to go.

Thanks,
Roxy
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Nicholas Sherlock
May 4, 2006
roxy wrote:
Can you clarify? How does the html get resized, and how can you previt it?

The HTML has tags like <img width=89 height=50> (Made up example), but this is not the size of your image. This will result in your images being stretched by the browser, which looks terrible. Either set the width and height to the correct size of the images, resize the images to fit using an image editor, or remove the width/height values, which will show the images at their original size.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

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