It wasn’t too long ago that if you were wanting a special font on the web, you would have to save out your text as an image, and insert the image. Unfortunately, this usually meant your page would take a long time to load, and it wasn’t search engine friendly.

Luckily, in the past few years, there have been several major advances to adding new fonts to the web.  Google Web Fonts is one of those services, and is free.

Using Google Web Fonts you can search and find a creative font that will fit most design needs. There are several ways to add them to your site, and you can see them on the link below.

Link to Article – via invespBlog

Using Google Web Fonts to Create Beautiful Type was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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