Solved Ticket Misc. Questions

[tfmore]

Hi,
Just a couple random questions.

1) Do you recommend loading the Lato font locally whenever possible? If so, is there a certain way it must be done, with XB/FlatAwesome?

2) Along those same lines, I've always been curious why many forums use web fonts for everything except the message/post content, which seems to always be system fonts. Is there a reason for this?

3) Before my XF awakening, we were going back n forth between Default and Style Appearance settings, messing about. We left behind a mess over on the Default side. Purely for organizational purposes I'd like to go back and reset all Default style settings. Will this affect anything whatsoever with our current styling? Or does a Style 'take over' in every aspect?

4) We'd like to completely remove the Quicklinks drop down option from the main navigation bar. I found one of your posts on XF, giving the code to remove just the Quicklinks header, so I'm assuming it's not a settings option in the style. Can you please supply us a snippet?

Thanks Russ

 

[Russ]

Hi,
Just a couple random questions.

1) Do you recommend loading the Lato font locally whenever possible? If so, is there a certain way it must be done, with XB/FlatAwesome?

2) Along those same lines, I've always been curious why many forums use web fonts for everything except the message/post content, which seems to always be system fonts. Is there a reason for this?

3) Before my XF awakening, we were going back n forth between Default and Style Appearance settings, messing about. We left behind a mess over on the Default side. Purely for organizational purposes I'd like to go back and reset all Default style settings. Will this affect anything whatsoever with our current styling? Or does a Style 'take over' in every aspect?

4) We'd like to completely remove the Quicklinks drop down option from the main navigation bar. I found one of your posts on XF, giving the code to remove just the Quicklinks header, so I'm assuming it's not a settings option in the style. Can you please supply us a snippet?

Thanks Russ

I don't have problems with loading them on google fonts, they end up cached anyways once a user downloads them they won't need to download them again. See: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq#will_web_fonts_slow_down_my_page Avoid adding every single weight/italic ect and you'll be fine.

2.) Usually we set a basic font for the messages due to the various things that get posted. Like I mentioned above if someone wanted to make a bolded, italic font you'd need to have that included in your web font call for it to display properly. Additionally if forum owner has another language those google fonts won't support it.

3.) Not sure I understand this so I don't want to advise you wrong. When you say default and style appearances are you referring to your custom style, or things on the default style?

4.) Not a setting, some basic CSS:

.tabMenu .menuHeader {
    display: none;
}

 

[tfmore]

Understood on the Fonts. Need to shave off as much loading time as possible, so we'll do some testing.

3) So after the initial install of XF we began changing the Default style. Then we added a 3rd party style. Can we go back and Reset all the Default style settings without consequence?

4) That was that same code you supplied in the thread on XF that I mentioned. That does work beautifully for removing the Quicklinks header in the drop down. I was referring to removing the entire drop down function. So when hovering over tabs, nothing happens basically. Like this: https://www.artodia.com/threads/remove-drop-down-menus.903/

Thank you

 

[Russ]

3.) If you just create a brand new style, label it Default it'll install it like the stock XF style. Additionally you can go to "Customized Components", make sure you have the default style selected and revert all changes.

4.) That's referring to removing the dropdown arrow but it'll still have the links on hover. On your site you need to uncheck the "Make entire link a dropdown", then in extra.css:

.navTab .SplitCtrl {
    display: none;
}

 

[tfmore]

Thank you.