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My JA News changes the appearance of its font in IE 7.0 (but is fine in Firefox)

http://Perfumecritic.com/joomla2

Any ideas how to change this? I’ve changed my font to a sans serif to see if maybe my default font was the problem, but no luck. Also tried changing the size, still no luck…

AND most strange is that the first post to appear in JA News looks fine, it’s all the following posts that get changed…Weird, huh?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Marlen

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They look the same to me in both FF2.0 and IE7. While looking at a few different pages you have changed so many of the different fonts it must be hard to keep track of which font is for what in any given area.

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All main fonts have been changed to one: Century Gothic…with headers changed to Black Adder ITC; I haven’t gotten into JA News’ PHP yet to change those headers yet…

But more than a few of my readers have complained of the same problem – the scrolling JA News module (not the features beneath it) changes to a ragged font after its first display…

I still need some advice fixing that, please!

Thanks!
Marlen

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<em>@scenteur7 20945 wrote:</em><blockquote> I’ve changed my font to a sans serif to see if maybe my default font was the problem, but no luck. Also tried changing the size, still no luck…

Marlen</blockquote>

Looking at your CSS there is no Sans Serif mentioned for any of the fonts. I did notice that you have limited yourself to your choice of fonts and no others to fall back on. The ones you have selected are not what I would call common fonts and many people will not be able to display. I also noticed in my Firefox 2.0 that the fonts are bad initially for what you are having problems with. So, in FF2.0 looks bad right away and for some reason in IE7 it almost looks okay on first view and then looks bad on all others. I would suggest using a common font that all browsers can view.

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Bigrk – thanks for your continued assistance.

As noted, I tried changing font to a sans serif, but that didn’t help so I changed it back to Century Gothic (didn’t note that, sorry). So the serif is not the solution – it seems to be something about JA News…

I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.4 and everything looks fine to me – these darn cross-browser issues are a real killer, huh?

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,
Marlen

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<em>@scenteur7 21087 wrote:</em><blockquote>Bigrk – thanks for your continued assistance.

As noted, I tried changing font to a sans serif, but that didn’t help so I changed it back to Century Gothic (didn’t note that, sorry). So the serif is not the solution – it seems to be something about JA News…

I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.4 and everything looks fine to me – these darn cross-browser issues are a real killer, huh?

Any other ideas?

Thanks again,
Marlen</blockquote>

To me it looks just as bad in Firefox 2.0.0.4. So you might want to compare the CSS areas with the JA’s Demo CSS and correct all the areas that you deleted when making the changes for your fonts. Then all should work fine again. Your font selection most likely looks okay to you because you have added the fonts to your system. But if someone browsing your site doesn’t have that font on their system it will not look right. Use the original fonts that were loaded for the Teline Template and once you’re sure that it is working you can then add your fonts to the beginning of the font strings and don’t delete anything that was already there. This way everyone will be able to see some kind of font when they visit your site.

One more thing, you should visit this site and see how your website looks in all the different browsers: http://browsershots.org/. Put in your url and hit the start button. In the next screen don’t change anything except for Maximum Wait. Change that to 4 hours and the press the Submit Jobs button. Bookmark the next page and come back after four to six hours and take a look at your website through all the different browsers out there and it will be obvious what may or may not need to be fixed. If you do it before my suggestion in the first paragraph I would imagine that the font probably looks bad in just about all browsers.

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