As a web designer, have you ever found yourself frustrated from being forced to use “web safe” fonts? You may decide to use images instead of fonts so that you can keep the font in your design. Replacing text with images tends to leave search engines a little clueless as to what your website is talking about. So you may ask “Tom, is there a solution to this confounded problem?”, I am replying with a “YES!”.
sIFR or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement is the very solution that you may be looking for! With sIFR you can keep all your headings and text in the raw XHTML and sIFR will change the text inside nearly any element, class, id inside the CSS DOM.
sIFR is compatible with these browsers…
- IE6 and above.
- Firefox 2 and above.
- Browsers based on Gecko 1.8 and above.
- Safari 2 and above.
- Browsers based on WebKit starting with version 412.
- Opera 9.62 and above
The sIFR documentation can be found on their wiki.
So you want a crash course on how to get sIFR going on your website? Then read on...
Step 1!
Pick a TrueType font that you want in your website design.
Step 2!
Take that font to http://www.sifrgenerator.com and then use the wizard to set up your flash file.
Step 3!
Download sIFR!
Step 4!
Go to this website to see the latest documentation to implement sIFR. You can start at the “The HTML” section because
sIFR generator makes all the flash for you!
http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr3/How+to+use
