Well, we decided that no matter what font set we used that the page header titles (About, Submissions, &c.) were going to be ugly. So we dug around on Google, got some basic Photoshop instructions, and made transparent png's. That lets us use whatever font we want and it'll still look nice. One of our few gripes about this Rapidweaver theme is that not all of the fonts that it uses are web-safe so it reverts to the closest thing it can find on the client's machine. We also question in the new version of the theme, if the customizable color schemes will work the same way. Do they only let a designer pick web-safe colors? If not, results will be unpredictable at best.

More to come.

This is basically just a quick & dirty blog to document the steps taken, stumbles made and milestones achieved while starting Dissoi-Logoi.com.

It all kind of starts with Rapidweaver, which is a website builder for the Mac. It really is pretty slick -- just easy enough for dolts like us to be able to put up a pretty good site, and just advanced enough for dolts like us to really mess one up.

Our latest frustration has been with fonts. Rapidweaver uses "themes" which are pre-canned layouts. Some of those themes let you choose a font, but since of course not all machines (especially those running Windows) have a decent selection of fonts, it reverts back to the closest font it can find. In the latest iteration of Font Hell, it went from a monotype corsovia to some godawful courier mutation on the PC at work. Rapidweaver does have a "use web-safe fonts" option with a choice of 5 or 6 fonts. We'll try changing all of our text to one of those and see how it goes.