A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....05-24-05....Still Fontastic!

Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in need; and congratulate those deserving. We strive to keep our threads entertaining, fun, and pleasing to look at, and often have guest writers contribute an essay, or a profile of another FReeper.

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~ Billie, Mama_Bear, Dutchess, Aquamarine, DollyCali ~

We're gonna do somethin' Different today! :)

A couple of weeks ago I was having some major problems with my computer, and the tech that I use determined the best way to 'fix' it was to wipe everything from the hard drive and start over. He backed up my files and reinstalled them, but some things couldn't be salvaged - among them, many of the neat fonts I had downloaded to make fancy headings.

It wasn't until I looked at our regular threads - the topper we use on all of our threads and the TGIF post in particular - that I realized some of the fonts I used on them were not standard Windows fonts. Because they were already on my computer and I hadn't put them there, I just assumed they were part of the Windows default fonts. They must have been installed on my pc with a word processing program which I also lost in the reformatting, and therefore those fonts were not showing up anymore for me.

The default font face at FR is "Times New Roman" (the one you're seeing in red now.)

The yellow text above was typed with the "Calisto MT" font (which is a Windows Default font), and the font I am using now is called "Comic Sans MS". If you can't see the difference in this white type and the red, then the Comic font is not installed on your pc.

Ho-Hum! Yawwwwnnn!

Stop reading if you know all this already (she said in "Lucida Sans Italic"). If not, and you'd like to jazz up your posts with different types of font faces, then this thread's for you. It's easy, and it's fun. :)

I've now switched to another Windows Default Font called "Arial". I use it a lot for the text in my opening posts, because it's very plain and easy to read and everybody has it installed on their computers. It's a larger *type* than "Times New Roman", so I dropped the size down to "2" instead of the default size of "3".

When you open our threads each day, if the heading in the topper looks like the first example instead of the second one, then you don't have the font "FifthAve" installed on your computer.

If "Quill" is not in your font folder on your computer, when you open the TGIF thread, you'll see the first example instead of the second one. (The second one's much prettier, isn't it?)

I've also used Invitation, Vivaldi, Kidprint, Tabitha, and Chaucer often in my posts, to name just a few more that are not Windows Default Fonts. My profile page doesn't look right without "Tabitha" and "Kidprint" fonts. You can find most of those in the link I've provided in the "Three Easy Steps" below. "Kidprint" is not in the link with all the other favorites, but you can download it (and I hope you do) HERE.

If you're still reading - THANK YOU! LOL - and you do want to dress up your posts, or simply see our threads as they're meant to be seen, it only takes three easy steps to do so. Are you ready? Let's go!

1.  Get Font      2.  Install Font      3.  Post Font
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1.  Get Font.....

You could search Google Web for Free Fonts, or you could search Google Web for a specific font, or you can click on the link below for the easiest and one of the best collections of free fonts available on the net. (I've searched through several sites for my collection of pretty and/or cute or unusual fonts, but Mama_Bear sent me this particular website last week, and it is really great!)

6500 Free Fonts to Download

It couldn't be easier. If you want the fonts that I mentioned above, just go to the letter of the alphabet and look for them; or when you see any that you like, just click on the link to download it.

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2.  Install Font.....

When you click on that link under the font you want to install, select "Save" to your computer rather than "Open", and another window will open asking you where you want to save it. Choose C:/ and then Windows and navigate down the list of folders in Windows until you find the Fonts folder. Click on "Fonts" and you are downloading each font directly into C:/Windows/Fonts. That's it! *That* installs the new font on your pc - both Windows 98 AND Windows XP! The new font is *THERE* and ready to use.

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3.  Post Font.....

You know how to make a post in color, and you know how to make a post in a bigger or smaller type - it's just as easy to make a post using a font other than the default, as long as it's installed on your pc. You type all the font commands inside one bracket, like this:

<font face="comic sans ms" color="blue" size="5">

To turn OFF the font, type </font> only one time, and it turns off the face, the color, and the size all at once. (You still have to turn on and turn off the bold or Italics commands separately.)

Whew! Got it? Now I need coffee! Lots of coffee! Please, please, please, somebody, tell me you're going to install a new font or two and post it here so I didn't wear my fingers to the bone posting all this stuff for nothin'! :) The main thing you need to remember is that though you may see your fancy new font, unless it's on someone else's computer as well, they may not see why you're smiling so big about that pretty post you just made. Darn it!

Now Have Fun! (This is "Quill" - if you download and install it, you will see it.)

03-29-05 ~ Hall of Fame #11

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 05-23-05 Military Monday

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[StarCMC]

Oh my Bille - what a fun thread - I'm partial to Ladybug, what this is typed in and what my name in the following graphic appears in:

[Diver Dave]

Mornin' Billie.

'Puter woes - still. I'm about ready to re-format. Ran scandisk yesterday (took 14 hours) and this thing is still popping up fatal error messages, locking up etc. and it's causing me to talk to myself - sometimes LOUDLY. Perhaps a new hard drive is the way to go. Gonna start some back-up operations for those "just in case" issues.

Have a great day!

[jwfiv]

Good morning, Miss Billie ... )

[DollyCali]

good morning Star.. love the lady bug font. Man i need to update mine with billie's thread. I had a hard drive failure first of year & did lose a lot of my old favs . I have reinstalled many programs but not all.

Hadn't been to your homepage for awhile.. very, VERY nice.. pariotic & what a fine family you have!!! I love homepages that tell a little about folks. I know some folks are a little cautious & private & that is okay. I like just one pix so I can picture what the FReeper looks like.

How do you have ANY time to FReep homeschooling & with 4 young uns?

Need to run, just wanted to say good morning

[DollyCali]

is xp your operating system? good luck. It seems like a lot of us have had major problems the past year. Very frustrating & time consuming

[StarCMC]

Good morning to you, Dolly! Homeschooling is not as hard as it sounds. Right now my bogger 2 can do a lot of work on their own. And Shorty is still in preschool for one more year. But the year after that, when she starts kindergarten, I will be MUCH busier! LOL!

[rwrcpa1]

I got a lot of German email last week. It looked like a bunch of propaganda about WWII. Some of it was from some people I know so I don't know if it was a virus going around, or what. Norton Anti-virus and my ISP spam and virus ware didn't stop it from coming through. I didn't notice any ill effects, except the nuisance factor.

[luvie]

Thanks for reminding us that
GOD'S WORD NEVER CHANGES!

[luvie]

Love that picture! I saw that flag just recently when we took a friend to see her daughter in Sonora and took pictures of the beautiful bluebonnets on her land.

[luvie]

Hi, Mojo! Thanks for the examples! I might snag a couple of these to use here--and there! LOL!

[luvie]

....BTW--thanks for the fonts fun again. I have found some new ones that I will use...like this one! ;o)

[Billie]

Dolly, I sent you regular email. Please let me know if it helps.

[Billie]

Hi, there - thanks for the flyover - always love seeing that li'l red plane. :)

[Billie]

Good morning, lysie. Thanks for dropping in. Want some new fonts? :)

[Billie]

....not sure what they see but i know it prolly isn't architecture; curlz; chiller etc..

I doubt it! LOL. I don't think, as many different ones as I have, that I have those either! My guess is that, depending on their default font, most people are going to see "Times New Roman" when we specify another one that's not on their pc. Pity! Would be so nice if what we *type* is what they *see*, regardless if it's installed on their machine or not. :)

[Billie]

Good morning, Mr. Mayor, thank you for the Word.

[Billie]

Mojo - HELLO!!! Oh, I LOVE *Alex Brush"* and *Scriptina* - must go look for those, cause I don't have them! - Especially scriptina - it is wonderful! Glad you like the thread - hope I can find those two fonts. :)

[Billie]

Morning, SheLion - glad you like the thread - hope you can find some fonts you don't have and would LIKE to have!

[Billie]

Morning, Gail. Glad you have a day off to enjoy your quilting. Hope the job's going well.

[Billie]

Hi, there, Star. The Ladybug font is very cute and your logo is adorable! (I don't have Ladybug installed - making notes of those neat ones I want) :)