Monday, we announced the release of our upgraded text editor. We made a great number of improvements, including removing some of the text editor options. Why would we remove options? Well, our philosophy is, in the words of Albert Einstein, "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
So, we took out some of the options, but today, we put a couple of them back. Specifically, we've put back the font size and font color selector tools.
Here's the thing with font manipulation tools. The absolute best thing you can do on your website is allow the CSS style sheets which are a part of your website design to govern the font's face, size and color so that everything across your site is consistent. This doesn't mean that every font has to be the same size and color, but it means that all of the "headers" will be the same and all of the "paragraph text" will be the same.
Whenever a design is created for your website, the CSS is created which dictates these font styles. There is a tool inside the text editor that lets you choose styles such as "paragraph" or "heading 1" or "heading 2" etc. These are the best tools to use when you are editing text on your site.
But, after getting some feedback from our customers, we determined that perhaps we were being a bit too idealistic in hoping that everyone would use CSS for their styles. You've told us that there are times you need to be able to change the font size or color outside of what is in the style sheet. So, while we recommend that you only do this sparingly, we have put the font size and font color controls back into the editor so that you can do it.
If you have any further questions about working with fonts, see our website support site or send us an email.
Posted on
Wed, July 25, 2007
by Tim Wall