Everyone, please read

[112]

Wow, so that's what has been going on, it looks great and is a welcome edition, thanks charliebear for taking teh time and effort to make this all possible and to the other peeps who aided in the process!

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[EJG1980]

I didn't realise the forum was back up until today, I was loading the old site and when the forum didn't appear I just assumed it was still down for maintenance, didn't actually notice the message had been updated to say we'd moved until this morning! Doh

Sounds like a massive effort was involved in the move so a round of applause to all those who put the work in.

[muddy]

Good work on the switch over.

And if you make one change to the default skin, swap Verdana for "Helvetica Neue", Arial in the CSS font stack!

[Roddie]

Do not use Helvetica! Browsers never render it correctly! I hate this obsession with websites using it as their preferred font; it's a pain if you need to have the font installed for design work, only to find half the sites you visit are barely usable.

[mini0ne]

yeah thanks to all involved im a little dim with this sort of thing and assumed it was the magic pixies who do all the work much like the little actors inside my telly

[FelixofMars]

Guys, good work. if you do need any help I might be able to assist.

[muddy]

Do not use Helvetica! Browsers never render it correctly! I hate this obsession with websites using it as their preferred font; it's a pain if you need to have the font installed for design work, only to find half the sites you visit are barely usable.

Read carefully. Picking "Helvetica Neue", which is preinstalled on Macs, but not PCs, is a standard practice. The PC don't see it, so drops to Arial, because as you say, a PC cannot render plain Helvetica correctly.

[stainboy]

Apreciate all the work, I've read the site a lot more than I've posted and should get round to being a blue member again. It's a bit of a culture shock having it fill the screen though, that's gonna get some getting used to!

[FelixofMars]

Yeah the fullscreen mode is freaking me out to. Also I keep clicking home and expecting to go to the main forum page (which is silly I know)

[Magnakai]

Read carefully. Picking "Helvetica Neue", which is preinstalled on Macs, but not PCs, is a standard practice. The PC don't see it, so drops to Arial, because as you say, a PC cannot render plain Helvetica correctly.

I agree with this gentleman. A lot of places (see html5boilerplate.com, for example) are just dropping down to sans-serif, as in theory that would give you Arial on PC and Helvetica on a Mac, but it's not consistent enough Mac-side.

[charlesr]

To be honest, I have no idea what you are on about, but I'll look into it.

[toythatkills]

I think the best solution is just to have everything in Comic Sans.

[Neon Ignition]

Nah, Kristen all the way

[Boody]

Late to the party as usual but thanks Charles and everyone else for such a great resource.

[Jei]

Oh dear god, this mobile skin is absolutely perfect!!! (Blackberry 9700)