The font's a person chooses
 
Say much about them
 
I say a font for every man, woman, and child!
 
I would hate to eat the same font day after confounded day!
 
 

craigb
Hey Bit!  The 1990's called, they want their website back!  
 

 

Craig, where did I go wrong?
 
 

bitman

craigb
Hey Bit!  The 1990's called, they want their website back!  
 

 

Craig, where did I go wrong?

 
Besides posting in the Coffee House with the rest of us loony tunes? 
 
Nah, the website works, it's responsive and is still usable on small screens.  Those are the main things.  It just LOOKS very, very dated (the repeating lo-res background, old fonts, overall style, etc.).  But, like Bob says, so what. 
 
I'm going to redo the websites for both my own company and the consulting firm I currently work for soon.  I'll put up links so you can see the difference.  Here's an example from the company a friend of mine used to work for.  The ones I create will be simplified versions like this but using the branding, logo and style of my company and the firm I work for.  In other words, less BS and more usable, but the theme's and approach will be similar.
 
https://www.advisicon.com/
 
 
 

Thanks Craig

craigb

bitman

craigb
Hey Bit!  The 1990's called, they want their website back!  
 

 

Craig, where did I go wrong?

 
Besides posting in the Coffee House with the rest of us loony tunes? 
 
Nah, the website works, it's responsive and is still usable on small screens.  Those are the main things.  It just LOOKS very, very dated (the repeating lo-res background, old fonts, overall style, etc.).  But, like Bob says, so what. 
 
I'm going to redo the websites for both my own company and the consulting firm I currently work for soon.  I'll put up links so you can see the difference.  Here's an example from the company a friend of mine used to work for.  The ones I create will be simplified versions like this but using the branding, logo and style of my company and the firm I work for.  In other words, less BS and more usable, but the theme's and approach will be similar.
 
https://www.advisicon.com/
 
 
 

And it's actually very easy to put together a site like that with a Wordpress theme nowadays. I had always thought that by using a Wordpress theme it would be a bit like those old style "website templates" that your hosting provider included, a sort of "drop your logo in here and put your content here" kind of pre-made layout. In fact I'm finding that with the X-Theme that I'm using, I have as much control as I ever did when building a site from scratch with HTML and CSS, only it's way more convenient and there are fewer complications. For example, when doing my last site I ran up against so many problems because of the different ways that browsers handle things like margins and padding in the CSS. What looked right in Firefox would look off in Chrome, and you could forget about Internet Explorer. Even with the CSS framework I used, which included loads of helper classes to keep your layouts consistent between browsers, it was still a royal pain in the ass. Especially when you wanted to move your layout around to try different things. 
 
The X Theme comes with this amazing page builder called Cornerstone. I've used WYSIWYG page builders like Dreamweaver before and ended up reverted back to HTML and Notepad, they were that annoying. Cornerstone is SO great I can't even begin to praise it enough. I'm dragging and dropping all of these elements around and moving my layout around as if they were pieces on a Scrabble board. And there are so many cool Wordpress plugins available. For instance, the last time I coded a form in HTML it was a pretty basic affair. I just did a form for my new site with Gravity Forms, it allows you to program all of these conditional rules into the fields so that the form starts off with a single drop down menu, and further fields and options and checkboxes slide into view according to what you select as you progress. It's so slick and dynamic. I would have had to have been a Javascript whizz to do something like that before. Oh I have a video header with great looking headline text on it that I programmed in Revolution Slider to rearrange itself dynamically according to what kind of screen you're viewing on. With Cornerstone you can even choose which kinds of devices certain sections of your page will be visible in. Building a web page has never been so much fun as it is now. 

Jesse Screed
The font's a person chooses
 
Say much about them
 
I say a font for every man, woman, and child!
 
I would hate to eat the same font day after confounded day!
 
 

The fonts I choose says I teach.
Colouring in fonts for little'uns, trace fonts when they are a bit bigger, clean handwriting fonts for reading exercises.
 
I always want an 'a' not to llook like that, but as you'd write it, same for g not g etc.
 
Free fonts sites are great for my work. My older kids were doing 24 hours time and I had them taken digital time and drawingi the hands on clocks. Being able to grab a digital font made making the activity a breeze.

 
Working on my control bar. had me looking at fonts that suit size 8,9,10 px, Droid Sans, Roboto etc.