In the screenshot, can you see 'Welcome to my site!'?

That is JennaSue.

Jenna Sue all right ...



Interesting content, text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here text here. text here text here text here. text here text here

At that point, still in the early stages, I was not interested in the text content, just in laying the bones of the site structure!

Then what seems to be the problem? You seem to be complaining about the non-rendering of the font. I see the same thing as daaams and koeiekat saw. I do not have the font installed. I do not install fonts other those that were bundled with Windows and programs installed in my PC.



I suggest you enclose in quotes Jenna Sue in "@font-face { font-family: Jenna Sue; ...." and include the woff version of the webfont.

I suggest that you go to the Jenna Sue font page and click on the "Donate" button on that page, especially if you are doing the webpage for a fee. It is a way of thanking her for digitizing the font.

http://i.imgur.com/4za9Woy.png

Hmmm If you don't know where you are going to any road will take you there ...

Normally, I lay the foundation of the Web page first: navigation, colour scheme, links, images, and then I would work on the text. The nature of the Web site - a serious site related to legal matters, or a fun site for children - helps determine the structure of the site.

I suggest you ditch that "Welcome to my site!" It makes the site look cheap.

Possibly, but this is a personal site. In any case, the site is being recreated in ASP.NET.

Is that so?
To me first is why what message about what to what audience. Then at least you know where you are going to and why. Always handy when you want to achieve something. Now knowing the function it is a doddle to give a structure to your message. When you have done that you know the structure of the navigation and you know what elements you need to convey your message. Only then, knowing your target audience, follows shape and the very last are some coding thingies like webfonts. Not the other way round.

'a serious site related to legal matters, or a fun site for children'

That is the target audience.

Whatever target audience, the path is the same. Trouble with many designers is, they think in shape and don't give shit about conveying a message if they even know what conveying a message might possibly mean.
Do you now understand why the vast majority of the websites around are trash or minus?

Yes, some are poorly designed. I suppose some people are reluctant to pay for a professional service?

Design follows function. I suppose some designers are reluctant to follow the communications target brief. Or even understand that brief or the meaning of it and thus can not deliver professional work.

Designers who are not also professional mass communications professionals are unfit to make successful web-presence.

It also depends on the design tools you have.

Successful is fulfilling the communications target. That has little to do with the available design tools. Those design tools can all be replaced by straight forward html coding. Not that difficult. When you understand good old fashioned basic or C (not even C+ or C++) you understand html.

I don't understand those languages, sorry

That is, nowadays, not really a problem as wysiwyg design tools will do the job for you without you knowing what you are doing. The problem is that too many web site designers only go for what they think looks nice but have no clue about how to drag the target audience deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into the site. They are not professional copywriters, they are not mass communications experts. The most they can do is make something that sort of looks nice.

And that is far from enough to make a successful website. Whether that is one that needs to generate a thousand million Euro or Pounds turnover or promote a teacher. Target is target and that target must be achieved. Otherwise, whatever done, is a useless waste of time and effort.

Fixed your post.

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