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Hey there,
I see that you have installed the fonts, which is the most difficult task. As I often use chinese fonts in AE what I have found is that it often does not work to type them into AE directly. What you should do is type them into Photoshop (or in Word), which you already have done, and then copy the text that you typed. You can then go into AE and create a new text layer as you normally would to type it in, but then just paste it. This works for some reason even though simply typing it in often will just result in ? marks or boxes.

I previously typed a more detailed set of intsructions on how to install Chinese text on XP and then input it into AE if the above information doesn’t work out for you. Here is the link:

https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=111110070788969&forumid=2&highlight=chinese%2Ctext&archive=_2005|9|8

Let me know if that helps, and if anyone has a better solution I would love to know it.

Matt H.
https://www.synaptek.us/

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Thank you both for your critiques and thoughts.

to Brett Williams: I am assuming you are using a Mac and browsing with Safari, as that is the only browser I have run into the problem with text showing up as white over the buttons. I am intending
to have the text invisible as I have it set to size zero in my css, but in this browser it still shows up. As far as I can tell it is the browser’s interpretation of the code that is off as my CSS and html check out fine with the W3. But, if you happen to know of any tricks to get around this problem I would love to know it. Thanks.
As far as the video not showing up I haven’t run into that problem yet, so I will have to look into it. I will also be adding some quicktime versions for all the video in when I get more settled so hopefully that will at least give people another option to view things.

to Mylenium: I understand your feelings about the invisible text on the navigation. I have found for my personal enjoyment on art sites I like it when the navigation is not obvious and sometimes takes some looking for. I do have other specific reasons for wanting the navigation somewhat difficult to find, but I won’t get into that. However, I still think you have a good point and I will make some changes to make the site a little more friendly for the average user.
Also thanks for noticing the screen resolution, that is the resolution I designed it at and that I think it looks best at. But it was designed for use on screens as low as 800X600, I just forgot to put that on there. So THANKS I will be editing that as soon as I get the chance, I don’t want to scare anyone away. 🙂

Thank you both again very much, I appreciate the comments and hope to hear some more in the future.

Thanks,
Matt H.
https://www.synaptek.nologies.co.uk