13
April 2011

Categories: Daily Life, Design

Useful tool for web designers

I am kind of excited about this… not going to lie! Call me a nerd, I know that I am.

Anyway, I have been coding several sites lately where the site owners want to use a specific font on all of the pages. As most of you designers may know, this is hard to accomplish in IE since it does not support font embed for CSS3.

Well, I found this great online tool that converts TTF to EOT!

For those of you who are unaware, EOT is the only font type that is supported when embedding fonts in the stylesheet for IE.

And, the online tool does all of the work for you (and you don’t have to install anything)! It even gives you the code you need to use!

Check it out here.

I want to make sure this is really clear for everyone, so here are some further instructions.

  1. Convert the .tff you want to use on the website using this tool.
     
  2. Once the font is converted, save it into your website folder (along with the .ttf if it isn’t already).
     
  3. Copy the code it gives you. I edited it a bit so it goes in the styesheet and not the head of your website.

    @font-face {font-family: jenkins; src: url(“JENKINSV.eot“) /* EOT file for IE */}
    @font-face {font-family: jenkins; src: url(“JENKINSV.TTF“) /* TTF file for CSS3 browsers */}

  4. The information that is in bold is unique to my font. You will have your own name. For the font family, pick a name that you will remember and use what you wish.
     

  5. When it comes time to use the font in a tag, it will look something like this:
    .post-title {font-family:jenkins,Georgia,”Times New Roman”,Times, serif;}

    or

    .post-title {font:10pt jenkins,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;}

  6. Walla! Once you upload all of the fonts and the stylesheet, it will now be working!

I hope you all enjoy this tool and love it as much as me!

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11
April 2011

Categories: Daily Life, Events

Brewers Game

Yesterday we went to our first Brewers game of the season. I am not sure if we will be going to any more this year, but we always go to at least one every year.

This year it was against the Cubs. Our biggest rivals.

First off, it was perfect weather. It was 80 degrees! And sunny.

Maybe a little too sunny, since I did get burned, but it was still a gorgeous day.

We had good seats too.

The score of the game also stayed close the whole time. The Brewers ended up winning, saving the winning hit for the eight inning.

The score is hard to read, but this is after the Brewers went back into the lead. Here is the close up:

For those of you who aren’t familiar with reading baseball scores, it is 6 to 5, Brewers.

After the game is when the drama began. I didn’t know the people we were with (besides one and a half people). I say a half because one of the guys went to the same high school as me but he was a grade below me.

Anyway, his girlfriend decided to punch a fan of the other team because this girl was giving her shit the whole day and being, well, a bitch… and then her boyfriend almost got arrested for trying to stop that girl’s boyfriend from throwing a punch…

This guy who so drunk that he kept falling over every time he tried to do anything, so I don’t think his punch would have been much of anything if he did throw one…

I wasn’t there to see this. But what I did see was her going crazy at the car because her boyfriend didn’t stick up for her… even though he was the one that almost got arrested.

I don’t know. It was too much drama for me, so the details don’t matter to me.

The point was.

It was a good game!

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