Please help! Everyone in Dreamweaver Forum is sleeping! My webiste is not viewable in Internet Explorer.

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

it’s not a setting issue – your fonts work ok in some because safari is playing nicer with your os, however you can’t just declare a font to use in your web app and have it show in that font. for example, chancery works for me on my mac but none of the others work because i don’t have them installed on my machine – and on my pc, none of them work because i don’t have those fonts…

fonts on the web are limited to a very few common fonts that all users have installed*** – these are basically arial, helvetica, times, verdana and georgia…but you can learn more here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=web+safe+fonts

so you’ll need to use one of those in your site if you want it to show in a font that everybody has – you can declare multiple fonts in your family to catch everybody if you’d like:

https://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_font_font-family.asp

but you can’t use copperplate and expect your visitors to have it… :-/

sitruc

*** except in a corner case where you can force the user to download and install a font but please don’t do that – it’s not good because i can reject the install, which i would because i don’t know why your site would be making me install something to view it, and you really will end up ticking off visitors to your site, which is naturally not good…