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Freeway Reference: Styling Text

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Setting up Font Sets

You can add to the small list of Font Sets in Freeway. There are fonts that are used on other machines

that may not have been included in Freeway’s default set of font sets. To create a font set, you need to

do the following in Freeway Pro and Freeway Express.

If you want to create a font set that can be used in any document, you need to do the following with no

document open.

1. Select Font Sets from the Edit menu.

2. Click on the New… button (see screenshot below left).

3. In the dialogue that opens (see screenshot below right), give the font set a name. Select the screen

font in the drop down. Its name will appear in the text field below. You need to add some extra font

names yourself manually. These are fonts that will be used if your selected font is not available on

the client machine. Be sure to include fonts that are more likely to be available. In this case, we have

opted for Helvetica, Arial, Geneva, and sans-serif as the final fallback. Click OK.

4. Click OK. Your new font set will now be available to you in Freeway.

As the majority of visitors to your site will be running Windows in some form, it is worth checking on Microsoft’s site to see what fonts

Windows ships with before building a new font set.

To find out more about the core web fonts:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/default.aspx

http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html

Graphic styles

If you want to ensure text appears in a certain style, regardless of the fonts or browser settings specific to a particular user’s computer,

you can use a Graphic Style. There are some very good reasons to avoid excessive use of graphic text, for example:

• Not readable by assistive devices

• Not displayed by more primitive browsers (such as Lynx)

• Cannot be indexed by search engines

• Some browsers may have images switched off

Note: If you use the Inspector palette to supply useful Alt text for images,

some of these issues can be overcome (see page 99 for further details).

Freeway’s default styles

FW Pro only

Freeway will insert styles into your HTML at certain points. This is to ensure correct browser display and to preserve the WYSIWYG

model, and will not adversely affect your own styling of the page. These styles will start with an underscore (

–

) character, such as the

“_lp” style which is applied to the last paragraph of text.

HTML styles have meaning

HTML’s structural tags have a bearing on Styles. Freeway supports the creation of tag styles—when a site is output, any HTML text to

which they are applied will be enclosed in the HTML tag specified for the Style.

When you apply a tag style to a block of HTML text, you are doing two things. The most obvious thing you will see is a change in the

appearance of the text: color, size, weight, and so on. These changes will help your site’s visitors see any distinctions you care to make

when the page is being browsed, and hopefully will make reading the content easier.

The second change that is made is the way which the information being sent appears to the browser. By applying a heading style, you are

giving that text more importance than the normal paragraph text, and search engine bots (for example Google’s indexing system) will pick up

on that when your site is indexed.

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