6: Nuts and Bolts: Working with Text and Links in Java

Printer QR Code ISO/IEC18004 in Java 6: Nuts and Bolts: Working with Text and Links

Ignore Words with Digits: Overlooks words that contain fingers oops, I mean, numeric digits Ignore Duplicate Words: Ignores those times where you list the same word more than once Ignore URL-Like Words: Bypasses any word that looks, smells, behaves, or in some way resembles a URL or a Web address such as http://wwwyahoocom or wwwyahoocom Check Punctuation: Puts on its English Teacher hat and checks for simple punctuation errors, such as having a space prior to a comma or a period at the beginning of a word, that sort of thing Allow Hyphenated Words: Ignores two or more words attached by a hyphen, such as sub-menu or venti-one pump-soy-extra whip-mocha Allow Common File Extensions: Doesn t flag filenames with common file extensions, such as doc, html, or zip

The days of boring monospaced text are long gone relics of the days of the typewriter People nowadays, whether they read a document you created or visit your Web site, expect to see spiced-up text that looks attractive and readable Text formatting in Yahoo! SiteBuilder has three scopes: Character: Character formatting applies to any range of characters from individual characters to words to sentences and even to one or more paragraphs The Font, Style, and Text Color settings are all character formats I discuss these in this section Paragraph: Paragraph formatting is formatting associated with an entire paragraph things like justification, lists, and indents Find my discussion of these settings in the Stylin Your Paragraphs section later in this chapter Text box: Text box formatting is applied to the contents of the entire text box, whether the text contains one word or several paragraphs See the Formatting Your Text Boxes section later in this chapter for more on these settings

The font style (or typeface) that you use is one of the most basic decisions you ll ever make when creating a Web page 3 describes the specific

design considerations you ll want to think about when deciding on which fonts to use But in general, remember two rules: Pick a font that you know people will have on their system When you create a printed document, newsletter, or Adobe Acrobat file, you can pick any font you have and be certain that your reader will be looking at the formatting that you intended However, on the Web, the font you define on your Web page may or may not be on the visitor s computer If the font is missing from the system, then the browser looks for a substitute font However, you don t always know how the page is going to look Therefore, I recommend picking Arial, Verdana, or Times New Roman as fonts You can be fairly confident using Tahoma or Georgia, too, as most users will have these fonts or at least the browser can substitute a standard font quite close to these You can also use Courier New in specific instances where you want to display a monospaced font Pick one to two font styles for your site and go with them You ll want to pick a default font style and use it predominately across your site For sans serif (smooth) fonts, use Arial, Verdana, or Tahoma For serif (curvy) fonts, stick with Times New Roman or Georgia You may want to have a second font for headings to add some variety But if you do so, pick the opposite font style For example, if you use Verdana as your primary font, pick a serif font for your headings Or if you have Times New Roman as your main font, use any of the sans serif fonts for your heading text