How to add fonts to a website with Dreamweaver?

[Blackjack2000]

I downloaded some fonts to my computer to use on my website, and imported them to dreamweaver, and then used them in the html edior. The code looks like this

<p><font size="5" face="Blambot Custom">Upcoming Bands:</font><br>
</p>

When I viewed the page from a computer that didn't have the fonts, I think Times New Roman was used.

I just want to know how to upload the font file so that anyone who views the site will see the font.

 

[WannaFly]

I dont think this is possible.

 

[screw3d]

You cannot do that. If it is just a header text, then just make a GIF out of it.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: screw3d
You cannot do that. If it is just a header text, then just make a GIF out of it.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: screw3d
You cannot do that. If it is just a header text, then just make a GIF out of it.

Yep, and check out the Logo Generator over at CoolArchive.com...it's pretty good for something like this.

 

[screw3d]

Actually there is a way using PHP and Javascript, but it's too complicated for my tastes

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dynatext/

 

[Abhoth]

Yeah, there are many tricks we can play... bottom line is that you need to install the font on someone's machine. This is a frowned on type of thing... you can put a notice on your site for a download of a special font you'd like them to use for the site. And if they do so all is good, but it good to make it their choice.

Only other choice is images.........

 

[Zugzwang152]

easiest would be to make a pic out of it in ms paint, photoshop, gimp, or your graphics editor of choice. Looks like it's just a small part of text, not a whole paragraph, so you should be okay with that.

 

[drag]

To bad svg isn't established yet. This sort of thing would be very easy to do with that, and make it look a lot better then what you can with with bitmapping fonts. Plus then you could make webpages that look and read exactly the same no matter what size browser or screen resolution the end user is using.

 

[Drakkon]

yeah but fonts are a tricky thing, a lot of them are copyrighted or licensed for only use with certain progs, take them ut and use them on websites and tyring to freely distribute them is akin to warezing the program.
Thus you should build them in using gifs/jpgs or use something like flash where you can embed the font and ahve it display whatever in the prog

 

[Blackjack2000]

Thanks for all the help guys. It's actually quite a bit of text, that was just a small sample, but it looks like I'll just have to use a more standard font.