Just changed site to CMS

[pengiea]

I had made this site before with a bunch of different scripts and stuff running to update it, but then decided to put it into CMS and I think it turned out pretty well.

http://www.theoutline.net/

[Signex]

Looks nice !

[cyberman]

Great - but you should try to make it xhtml valid. Please look here

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... ine.net%2F

[andrewtf]

Very nice, although the word "journal" is misspelled in the main navigation. 

[pengiea]

haha thanks, i probably would have noticed at some point.

I was just so focused on getting the fonts to be replaced with out using the module on here cause i hate the image replacements.

[heatherfeuer]

Okay, I'll bite.  How did you get the fonts to show without using the module/plugin?  I'd love to figure out how to show non-standard fonts without resorting to images.

[pengiea]

I'm trying to get everything to validate now, but I am running into some problems with the rss module. The links that myspace gives for the rss feed include & which I don't have the ability to change since they are in an rss provided by myspace. Is there some sort of work around for this? I have no clue how I would be able to do it since I can exactly tell Tom that he needs to change how his rss scripts list links.

[pengiea]

Okay, I'll bite.  How did you get the fonts to show without using the module/plugin?  I'd love to figure out how to show non-standard fonts without resorting to images.

It took forever to figure it out... but it really isn't that bad once you get it.

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr

that explains how to do it.

It acctually changes everything through flash so all of the text is still selectable and it doesnt create that annoying blinking effect that the php script does.

There are 3 components that you need to change in order for it to work.
In your cms template you need to put in the java script include.
You need to make a .swf file with your font of choice.
And you need to add the heading styles in the sirf.js file (it says you can add them in the body, but with cms this doesnt work)

I copied and pasted the styles straight out of the example into the .js and then edited it to my liking. That was the only way I could seem to make it work.

[heatherfeuer]

Very cool!  Thanks!  That's worth a bookmark!

[cyberman]

I'd love to figure out how to show non-standard fonts without resorting to images.

Use TruetypeText module  ... works with menus too.

[heatherfeuer]

cyberman, I've got that module installed but haven't played with it yet.  As I understand it, though, it creates images of the text.  CSSPlay shows how to do that with a bit of javascript magic that doesn't create images.  Instead, it uses flash to create the true type text in a way that allows the text to work like any other text on the page, including being able to select the text.