Word art?

A

alex

If i use word art for some of my webpages will it show up not clear in other
browsers?

Also is it a good idea to use word art on webpages?
 
R

Ronx

Word Art uses absolute positioning (support varies between browsers and
operating systems) and VML graphics (only shows in IE5.5 and later, on PCs
running Windows.) For these reasons Word Art, and anything else produced by
the FrontPage or Office drawing tools, should be avoided in web pages.

You can produce your word art or drawing, then copy it to the clipboard and
paste into a graphics program. Then crop, optimise and save as a .gif or
..jpg; import the image into the web and insert onto pages.
 
A

ACE

I wish I had known this before I created my website. I figured since WordArt
was available in FrontPage that it would be supported. Anyway, your
instructions seem fairly simple, except to a novice such as me. I do not
have a graphics program and didn't really want to purchase one. Should I be
concerned that I used WordArt on my website? If so, any suggestions.

Thanks.
 
A

Andrew Murray

It may not show up at all in other browsers - it's not broadly supported by
anything other than Internet Explorer.

Try word art as an image (say using Image Composer, make your word art and save
as a jpg or gif) or using another MS image editor that has word art as part of
its program - Photo Editor?), rather than an XML object (which is what it is).

No, Word Art is an *obsolete* technology.
 
W

Wes

I don't know why they continue to include it. It's useless as far as other
browsers are concerned.
 
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