The Lecture
This weeks went a lot better (it couldn't go any worse could it?) Even my mate Matt had a smile on his face although it may be down to his lovelife changing for the better (True Love).
So lets move on to another set of small characters - Fonts.
Daniel this week spoke to us about fonts and their design and useage.
We learned about weights, width, thickness, length and ones with curly ends. It sounds like an interview for a porno film doesn't it (calm down Nia and Natalie!!!)
Long gone are the days when you had only Times New Roman or Courier to use. Now you have thousands of different font designs available.
You have also different classes of font each with subtle variations that can produce markedly different effects and designs. Fonts can display anger, movement, funny, shouting, script and many other emotions too. You can even get 'Relational Fonts'
I wonder then if you can get Gay Fonts? and if you can would it look like this.
There thats my first font design done. I named it Blue Oyster Bar 18 pt.
And before anyone starts accusing me of being a homophobe, Im not. I know loads of gay people and at least one of them is ok!
Anyway back to the plot. Fonts need to be structured on the page sensibly. Their alignment needs to be pleasing to the eye and easy to read. Too much crammed in will simply push the viewer to hit the home button. Likewise too little, making the viewer constantly scroll down or to the next page.
I have viewed some really bad sites in my time and it is no coincidence that none of these are in my favourites folder.
A valid point though is that not everyones machine may have the font you are using. I have spent hours in the past making a page look good in a document only for an older machine to take my hard work and reproduce it in a dinosaur font like Suckass 10 pt!
We as developers need to consider where our designs are going to and make sure that we can happily port them onto everyones machines.
The Tutorial.
More Dreamweaver again this week. We used our layout tools and Css styles to create a pseudo web page with a heading 'Here is some Lovely Content' There was nothing lovely about my content though. And i had to remap my drive space again as it had dissapeared!
I have downloaded (legally honest!) a dreamweaver dummies guide which i am going to read chapter by chapter until i get it right. I would like also to have access to this space from my home based pc. This will enable me to carry on with the tutorial in the house.
For the past 2 weeks no-one in the class has been able to finish the worksheet in the 1 hour time slot. This is a real ball ache as i cant then finish it at home as i cant access my drive space. Help please. If i need to set this up please tell me as i will do it.
The reflection.
After the tutorial i did a little test with different fonts in the house.
I made a picture containing words made of fonts that would appeal to children and adults alike. My daughter Paige then came and had a look at them and told me which ones she liked.
My Observations
- The scripty curly ones were boring.
- The thick ones were boring too.
Then i asked my wifes opinion.
- She didn't like the thick ones (a female thing - avoid all things fat)
- She liked the scripty curly fonts as it maked the text look important and sophisticated.
- Psycho Bitch italic 12 pt
- You aint getting any tonight 14 pt extra bold.
Even the dog had a look, but she was more interested in the custard cream on my mousemat.
I'm glad my daughter takes after me, although i dont know where she gets her cheek from?
See u next week as i'm off to produce some brown curly fonts of my own in the bog.
Oi ..........where's my f****** biscuit gone? .............Bastard dog!!!!
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