Font problems and css
Today’s question:
While working on one post, my font changed and now all of the posts are changed. How do I get it back to what it was before? Is there a place to set the master default font? Also, what are tags, clouds, hover text?
Few things in the question here so today I will address the font and css issues and leave tags and clouds for another post.
If you were using font tags in you post and left it open it would carry through on you index page to other posts.
When you went to the individual posts they should still show in the normal way as individual posts. Need to be very careful when adding special fonts in to end them too. Each time you use <font> tag you need to have a corresponding </font> tag.
Your styles sheet is where your default fonts are found. Usually found in your theme folder with a name of style.css or something similar.
You can look for the font-size: and the font-family:tags in the area of the blog you want to change.
***Caveat – Never change anything in the css file without a backup file.
Here is an example from the logo area of another blog of mine.
.logo-name
{
font-size: 32px;
font-family: Impact;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
}
The only thing to be aware of when changing anything in the css is that sometimes the positioning is exact and you would need to keep the total the same.
For example I have had one theme where I wanted to increase the size of the title font. Changed that by 8 px but then had to reduce another spacing entry by the same number or the overall header became higher by the 8 px.
Understanding css is important before you start trying to adjust and more of a topic than can be addressed in a single blog post.
So that is where you can change the defaults if you have an understanding of how style sheets work but always make a back up before you start any changes.
Hover text is also controlled in the css file and hover text is what happens when you mouse over a particular link.
On this blog if you mouse over any of the blue links in any post they will change to black with an underline. If you put your mouse over any of the items in the my sites area on the side bar you will see a text box with a description come up.
Hope that helps and will address tags and clouds in another post.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed and appreciated.
Mike Paetzold
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