Okay, first foray into making a custom header and it's not going well. I imported a font, no problem, and created the test header. Screenshot attached.
I saved this to my desktop as "test" and then tried the preview function. Firefox couldn't find the file, so I had to manually "open file" and navigate to the test.html. That did not display the font correctly. Screenshot attached.
I zipped up the test files for your perusal. What am I not doing correctly that I'm having all this difficulty? I won't even get into trying to import this into VSD, one problem at a time.
Thanks in advance!
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Spinny
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Spinny
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Here is the browser view; I have to upload these one at a time, it seems.
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -- Frank Zappa
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Spinny
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Okay, in the past couple of hours while the site was unavailable, I did some more digging. I uploaded the files to this URL:
http://www.spinland.biz/test/test.html
I was going to upload them here but even though it was in a .zip archive the uploader here rejected it as not being a .zip format. Odd.
The line displays correctly in IE, but in Firefox there's a very fast blink and then just a white screen. If I open the test.html file locally it displays in IE but in FF it displays the text but in the default font. Very odd, and that still doesn't explain why the "preview" feature of the application doesn't work.
Any ideas? "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -- Frank Zappa
Visit Spinland Studios: http://www.spinland.biz
http://www.spinland.biz/test/test.html
I was going to upload them here but even though it was in a .zip archive the uploader here rejected it as not being a .zip format. Odd.
The line displays correctly in IE, but in Firefox there's a very fast blink and then just a white screen. If I open the test.html file locally it displays in IE but in FF it displays the text but in the default font. Very odd, and that still doesn't explain why the "preview" feature of the application doesn't work.
Any ideas? "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -- Frank Zappa
Visit Spinland Studios: http://www.spinland.biz
Bruzer
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SIte was down grrrr!
check out this tutorial Spinny. this will explain how to view Website Font / install it into VSD. For previewing in VSD the files must be added using the "Add Files" option under settings. kind of tricky... OOPs! website font can't be viewed other then online.... "It's A Smart Person That Asks"
check out this tutorial Spinny. this will explain how to view Website Font / install it into VSD. For previewing in VSD the files must be added using the "Add Files" option under settings. kind of tricky... OOPs! website font can't be viewed other then online.... "It's A Smart Person That Asks"
Cary
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The link to your test page works fine for me (shows the flash font) in FF 2 and 3.
Bruzer
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here's what Cary and I see!
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Spinny
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How strange. Okay, so I gather you can't see the flash font unless you upload it to a server? I can live with that. I wonder whether some of the security plug-ins on my Firefox are blocking the flash? Still, I made test pages with a photo album and a video player and imported them into VSD and my Firefox showed them just fine. I wonder why the problem with just the font? I'll have to go through that tutorial when I have time and look for clues. Thanks!
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -- Frank Zappa
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Bruzer
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I'm not sure, but I would think it would pop up a window saying windows firewall blocked it and you have a choice you allow or not. are you using the current version of FF? 3.0.5
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Spinny
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It wouldn't be a firewall issue, no, because IE shows it fine. I have the latest FF, yes, but also have ScriptBlocker and some other security FF plug-ins installed. One of them might be causing trouble. I think I'll uninstall them temporarily and see whether anything changes.
"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -- Frank Zappa
Visit Spinland Studios: http://www.spinland.biz
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Cary
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ScriptBlocker? Do you mean NoScript? That shouldn't be a problem if you are allowing the scripts on your page. I'm using it with your page without any trouble, but your suspicions are probably correct about an add-on being the culprit.
Instead of fiddling with disabling the add-ons, just go to the Mozilla Firefox folder in your start menu. You should see the launch icon, "Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode)". This should run Firefox without any extensions active. If the page works you'll know its an add-on problem, and then you can try disabling them to see which is causing the problem.
Instead of fiddling with disabling the add-ons, just go to the Mozilla Firefox folder in your start menu. You should see the launch icon, "Mozilla Firefox (Safe Mode)". This should run Firefox without any extensions active. If the page works you'll know its an add-on problem, and then you can try disabling them to see which is causing the problem.
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