[WEB4LIB] HTML assistance needed

[John C Harvey]

Robin L Zalben wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on our new library web page, and I have some questions
> regarding fonts and images.
>
> I'm the "coder" and someone else has been doing designing using Word. (I
> hand code)  She would like to use Trebuchet MS as the font for one of
> the pages.  Is this a common enough font to use, is there a way I can
> find out the best options of fonts to use?  What is the Mac equivalent
> etc....  The other option would be to make this text into jpgs, but I
> know that will slow down the page.

I suppose you could set up your <font> tag to say:

    <font face="Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">

And that would cover just about everyone.

> Secondly,  she has made a jpg for behind the text...I'm trying to figure
> out how to insert a picture behind a table.  How can I make it go across
> the whole table.

Just add this to your <table> tag:

      background="filename.jpg"

----(Imagine a fancy inline graphic here.)----

John C Harvey
jharvey at irving.lib.tx.us

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