I made some changes to a site that I created a while back. The site updated the few changes I made, but now the font is all out of place. I have some little red bullets going down a couple of pages, and now they do not line up with the words no matter what I try. The spacing is odd on the Internet, but it looks fine on my computer.

I tried changing all of the font from Verdana to Tahoma and finally to Times. I reinstalled VSD. I deleted all of the bullets, uploaded the site without them and then put them back and uploaded.

Any ideas about how I can fix that?

Here is the site:

jimbills.net

Thanks for any input

Try putting each line in it's own text box. Those extra hard turns are probably the problem.

Thanks, Eric. I just did that. It helped, but the spacing is still odd, and the type does not appear as it does in VSD. I cannot push the lines any closer in VSD, and when I upload the site, the font is smaller and the spacing is wider between the sentences.

There will always be a little difference between what you see in VSD and the live site. I usually do what I have to to make it correct on the live site and not worry that it looks wrong in VSD. You may want to code this with an html box if it still doesn't render correctly.

You could also select each bullet and its line of text then group them to help keep them lined up.

If you built the site originally with VSDv5.xx, maybe v6.xx, this is a problem that is most easily remedied by starting over. I hate to say it, but I've done just that on a couple of sites and it does clear up "some" of the issues. DO NOT cut and paste the old text to try and reconfigure it in VSDv7. You will develop brain damage.

Try to use the more common (standard) type faces (arial) and use common typeface sizes. Changing typefaces and picas of existing text is not good. If possible retype. You will still have to manually justify lines of text and paragraphs to make the end result properly legible on the end users side. Once you get used to making the adjustments you'll begin incorporating them during your initial build process and things will go much smoother. If it's manuscript text (a manifesto type document) then try using different sized text and different widths of galleys before you retype. This is an incident where It'd be nice to have full justification available like a word processor. If you want to reproduce your same text cut & paste it into a simple utility Word Processor like Notepad ( it renders in unformatted basic text). Re-Paste it into your VSDv7 website and then format the typefaces and picas

It's frustrating I know. I have a couple of pages on a site I'm working on now that look perfect once rendered online, however at first glance of the raw image in VSD you'd think there is no way this will ever reproduce correctly. I'm talking about integrated graphics in a page background that have to be offset about 2 inches to make them appear correctly live.

The real trick is adjusting them so they render in ALL the more common ( and not so common) flavors of browsers.

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