The second graphic element created by the Yahoo! Store template software is fonts. There are two types of fonts in Yahoo! Store: Fonts generated by the software and fonts generated by you in captions and other text fields using the VW-IMG TEXT tag. This is the first RTML most people ever use. SOFTWARE GENERATED VERBAGE. NAV-BUTTONS have automatically generated names as well as the names of the sections, products, or links that are on the front page. These buttons are automatically generated with the default names that Yahoo! assigns things in the NAV-BAR like E-MAIL, REQUEST, SEARCH, as well as headlines for each product page or section page by . They also show up in the the VW-IMAGE TAG or DISPLAY-TEXT. The VW stands for VIAWEB, the original company that created the Yahoo! Store software. You probably notice this being used the most with the words on the NAV-BUTTONS or on the product pages or sections in the HEADLINES. Headlines (a.k.a. DISPLAY-TEXT The VW-IMG tag is a proprietary tag of the Yahoo! Store software. Paste the code in a non-Yahoo! Store generated page and you will get garbage text or nothing at all. You don't have to have a close tag to use it because it is a ___ type of tag . This is a simple version of that of the tag that calls on the defaults for DISPLAY-TEXT . Whatever is inbetween the quotes will be displayed the same size, font, and color of whatever you have your DISPLAY-FONT settings on under VARIABLES. LAZY DESIGNER SAYS: This is really cool because if your HEADLINES, and BUTTONS, and other elements are all orange and you make a major site renovation changing your major color to, say, hot pink, anywhere you use the simple version of the VW-IMG tag the color will automatically change. However, if you use the complex version changing font, size, and/or color, you have to go back and recode them by hand. Yuck! HTML HINT: Use a tag after a VW-IMG tag to kick regular text to the next line because short snippets of text tend to "suck up" a word or two of the body copy. You can also set the font, size and color by calling those attributes inside your VW IMG tag. LAZY DESIGNER SAYS: Hit the enter key after each VW-IMG attribute to kick it down to the next line. This makes for MUCH easier editing when you DO have to change fonts, colors, and sizes. I do the same thing with really complicated tags as well as tables. The width of the text window you have to EDIT with makes it difficult to make quick edits. If you do this, you'll save a lot of time -- eddie There are two kinds of DISPLAY Yahoo! Store automatically generates several different styles of the DISPLAY-TEXT in the standard ITEM, SECTION, PAGE, and HOME templates. These are DISPLAY-FONT, BUTTON-FONT, BANNER-FONT, & LABEL-FONT. Code to use simple code defaults to DISPLAY FONT size and color Fonts available Load speed / image size |
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