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Webpage Creation in Dreamweaver--How I Deal With Font
Conflicts.

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Critical Steps to Online Success--Goals that will really
get you into action!

Part of my mission statement in life is to be a mentor to
people who really want to learn. I hope my articles will
provide you with many tools and strategies to make your
online career a huge success.

Network Marketing and MLM is a tough game. You really need
to know why you are doing it if you expect to succeed. We
get paid on replacement value in life...the easier we are
to replace, the less we will get paid for our efforts. A
really top MLM achiever is really difficult to find and
replace and so the income at the top is exceptional.

If you want to have success in this industry then you must
understand the absolute necessity of having a clear and
concise goal firmly fixed in your mind.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...I know...you've heard all of this
before but I just can't stress enough how critical this is.

If you are already a huge success then you probably aren't
reading this.

But if you're just starting out, it's important for you to
know that there is a lot of competition out there trying to
do just exactly what you are doing.

How are you going to rise above the crowd and be
successful if you don't know exactly why you're doing the
work?

I have to tell you that I've been in the sales and
marketing field a lot of years and the times I have had big
success were the times when I knew exactly what I wanted
and why I wanted it.

You see with this fixed in your mind an amazing thing
begins to happen. You begin to focus on the end result and
not the immediate task in hand. Obstacles along the way
become simple stepping stones along the path to success. A
plan of action miraculously appears and your whole attitude
changes. You become immersed in the achievement of your
goal.

Now I'm willing to bet that you've heard all this before,
you've probably tried it, and for many of you it was a dud.
You felt like you were shooting blanks. You eventually
became dispirited and gave up.

Am I right?

Not to worry. Once you have a goal in your heart that has
become a burning desire, everything will change for you.

You will be unstoppable and your great success will begin
to emerge.

What is your true vision in life?

This is the place we are told, where we must start our
search for a goal that will inspire us and fill us with
fire and ambition.

But you know what...I have a vision that I will eventually
find my true vision in life. I keep changing my mind
depending on the day and what has just happened.

I have found it to be like the search for the Holy
Grail...a lofty ideal that more often than not gets in the
way of making a plan and getting to work. I become so
focused on finding my "ultimate vision" that I don't go to
work on the first step.

Instead, I have come to realize that finding a goal I can
get in the trenches with is much more likely to get me into
motion.

What sort of goal might that be?

Well let's look at this! If you had a reliable extra
income of say $2000 per month (or $500 or whatever works
for you) coming in that you could create part time with an
acceptable amount of effort...how would that change your
life? Would you be able to retire, buy that new car, get
your first home etc?

That's what I mean by a goal I can get in the trenches
with!

It's real, it's earthy, you can feel it, you can believe
it's possible...and you can find a way to make it happen if
it truly is meaningful for you.

Sure the "vision" will lead you on to lofty ideals and
bigger things. Your "Vision" will take you to the top. But
it's the closer to home, "help me out today" goals that
will really get you into action.

PROFILE

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have
just completed my brand new guide to Internet Marketing
Success.Its called ‘Three Surefire Ways to make Money Online

‘Download it free here:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/

Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer with many years of successful experience.

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Webpage Creation in Dreamweaver--How I Deal With Font
Conflicts.

Dreamweaver would seem to have become the platform of
choice for website designers. Simple enough for beginners
to master to a workable level and sophisticated enough to
keep the master designers coming back.

But it has some very, very annoying conflict issues that
can test your hold on sanity. I ran across this again today
so I thought I'd write about it in case someone else finds
it useful.

I am by no means a master web designer. I am in fact an
Internet MLM Marketer. Websites are a tool to me, not a
profession. I fumble my way around bringing websites to
life and in the process I run into some very frustrating
issues that just don't seem to want to get fixed. Things
like: how do I get an mpeg video clip to run in a webpage;
my text formats differently in Firefox versus Internet
explorer; font changes refusing to take; tables getting
screwed up etc. etc.

And there just doesn't seem to be anyone out there who can
help me without paying an immense fee for their service. So
I struggle along on my own until I finally crack the code
thinking: "There must be a better way."

Ever been there?

Well I can't help you with really intricate stuff, but
here are some of the things that I have found will save me,
and hopefully you, a lot of headaches.

If you're a pro then this article isn't for you.

This is for the beginner like me who still from time to
time struggles to get a website up and running smoothly. So
if you're a beginner read on.

So there you are--you're sitting there with the blank
Dreamweaver page in front of you.

What are you going to do first? Getting it to work right
is all about doing it right the first time. Begin as you
intend to continue.

Here's what I do ,and don't for a moment think this is
gospel (maybe there's an easier way)--its just what I find
keeps me out of trouble.

Where fonts for your text are concerned you are best to
start by creating a CSS Style Sheet. CSS stands for
Cascading Style Sheet and can help keep you out of trouble
with fonts that can suddenly go crazy on you. Now this is
not the only use of CSS--in fact its amazingly versatile in
regard to graphics etc.-- but lets just stick to fonts.

Well get to how to set up a CSS sheet in a follow up
article, but the main thing is to NEVER, and I mean never,
designate a font that is not listed in your CSS sheet
unless you know how to get out of the ensuing mixup. This
will help keep you out of lots of trouble with fonts.

There is a great difference between what you see on your
HTML editor (which is what Dreamweaver really is--although
very sophisticated) and what you see on your web page when
you test it as an HTML file on your screen.

And it can get worse when you actually publish it to the
web. The layouts of webpages viewed in Internet Explorer
always seem to be slightly (and sometimes a lot) different
to webpages in Firefox.

Always attach your CSS sheet to the page you are working
on and always define your text fonts in your style sheet.
If you need a new font then define it in your CSS sheet
first and then use it. Some of my style sheets are monsters.

One of the frustrating issues with Dreamweaver is that
when you change a font by highlighting it and changing it
in the properties window, Dreamweaver doesn't always erase
the old font. This can cause conflicts that show up as very
unpredictable font changes when you publish your webpage.

What do I do?

As soon as I notice that my fonts or layouts have gone
crazy I position my cursor at the beginning of the
inconsistency and search in the code at that point for
doubled up font definitions.

If you have imported the document or copied and pasted it
from somewhere else it will bring all of its old baggage
with it, including all of the formatting and fonts from the
original document or webpage.

What I do at this point is "cleanse" the document.

I go into code view, select all of the code, copy it to
the clipboard and then paste it into a Notebook page. I
then go to "edit" and select "find" from the dropdown menu
(I can't seem to make "find" work properly in Dreamweaver).

I enter the word "style", position my cursor at the top of
the document and click "find next". I then systematically
erase every existing style definition in the document
(hopefully its not too long).

Your document should now be pure and unsullied, contain no
style definitions and be ready for you to attach your CSS
Style Sheet.

You then copy and paste the cleansed text back into your
code page, making sure to save the original code first in
case there's a snafu in your changes.

If you find "font" conflicts arising again, you can simply
repeat the process if you can't obviously find the villian
at the first couple of tries.

You will know you have problems if you find "non-CSS"
styles showing up in your font list in the properties
inspector.

A valid CSS style definition will look like this in your
font listings:

"Para12ptBlack" or something similar,

while a style that could cause problems looks like this:
"style1" and needs to be removed if you want your page to
be free of font conflicts.

So look for a line in your code that looks something like
this at the point where the problem is showing up:

"style1- Sample Text to Demonstrate Font conflicts."

Dreamweaver defines the "style" in both the "head" and the
"body" of your webpage code. Both need to be removed.

Here's an example:

NOTE: Due to constraints form Ezine Articles whereby using
HTML tags in the body of my article causes publication
issues this is not exactly syntactically correct code but
gives you the idea.

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"head"

style1 (font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

font-size: 14px;

font-weight: bold; )

"/head"

"body"

style1 class - Para12ptblueBOLD - Sample Text to
Demonstrate Font conflicts.

"/body"

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When you changed your font to "12 pt Blue Bold" using an
attached "CSS Style sheet" you will notice there are now
two styles defined for the same text.

When you re-defined your style from the CSS Style sheet
Dreamweaver didn't delete the "style1" from the class
definition. This is how the conflict happens - your
computer gets confused.

It is these instances of "style 1" and similar, in both
the "body" and the "head" that you will need to delete to
keep your webpage clear of font conflicts --as long as this
is the only issue..

Remember to leave your CSS font definitions intact. You
don't want to remove these. These are the good guys.

The line should now look something like this:

class "Para12ptblueBOLD" Sample Text to Demonstrate Font
conflicts.

This is a nice clean definition that won't cause problems.

Since you have attached a CSS Style Sheet there will be no
Style definition in the "head".

If you've been house cleaning as you go along this will
usually fix the issue.

PROFILE

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have
just completed my brand new guide to Internet Marketing
Success.Its called ‘Three Surefire Ways to make Money Online'

Download it free here:
http://homebasedbusinessontheweb.com/cap/

Jim Keayes is an expert Internet Marketer with many years of successful experience.

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