Re: Fonts and FrontPage

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From: Murray (forums_at_HAHAgreat-web-sights.com)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:35:03 -0500

Andrew:

> 3) Absolute positioning is not a good idea, since few browsers support it,
> and I
> think only MSIE browsers at best.

This is completely wrong. Please visit my site at
http://www.great-web-sights.com in your various browsers to see how well it
does work. All modern browsers (i.e., not NN4x, but all other v4+) will
support this just fine. 

-- 
Murray
"Andrew Murray" <admurray@iinet.net.au> wrote in message 
news:u0RfIUL5EHA.3828@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> 1) yes, the default font would be used for plain text on a user system 
> without
> that font you're using.
>
> 2) yes, if you have a particular font, then use it in a graphics program 
> and save
> the content, heading, banner etc as a gif or jpg.
>
> 3) Absolute positioning is not a good idea, since few browsers support it, 
> and I
> think only MSIE browsers at best.
>
>

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