How to view your website as others will see it
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When I navigate to my website it as a gray menu at the top starting with “My Site”.
Below that is another menu in blue with the options, “Themes Support, Forums, News, Features”.Then starts my website. I would like to view how my website looks to other people. How can this be done?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi @aaronmicalowe,
When you are looking at your site with the ‘My Sites’ across the top it means that you are logged into the site in that browser. If you want to see it without the My Site bar across the top you can use a separate browser that is not logged into your account.
Hope this helps! If you have other questions let us know!
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Thanks, at least now I can make use of that useless Chrome browser that sits around doing nothing.
But the site looks completely different. The main image is tiled all over the place and the font is in Helvetica, not Arial as it is in the Preview.
How can I make the main image a single image and fix the font so that it is Arial in all browsers?
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If you have the font in Arial in the Preview on one browser but it shows in Helvetica on a different browser then you probably have unset fonts in your content. Each browser has a ‘native’ or default font that if there is not a hard set font it will display the default font of the browser. You can see a link to change your browser default fonts here.
If you are interested in changing or setting the fonts in your site to a hard font then there are 3 ways to change fonts on WordPress.com blogs.
A) Changing font families, colors and size in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page by coding into the HTML editor:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/font-size-color/
B) Changing font colors in text in posts or pages either by post or by page using the #4 icon (Select text color – change the text color) in Row 2 of the Visual editor:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2
C) Changing all font families, colors and sizes throughout the whole blog by purchasing an annually renewable Custom Design upgrade and using Typekit Fonts with Staff support.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
For your picture it looks like you are using the Goran theme. The best thing to do would be to go over the theme guidelines / outline page methodically as it shows how to set header images and front page logos, etc.
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Thanks for the comprehensive reply about fonts, nixiack8. Could you also answer why my main image in Chrome is tiled, but isn’t in Firefox?
Tried method B). Changed the font colour. This didn’t effect the font style however but did give me a hint as when I changed to html view noticed it had added a span tag.
After some tinkering about finally got it to look the same in both Firefox and Chrome. Won’t bother with IE as nobody uses that anymore.
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:#003366;font-weight:bold">Did the job.
I don’t like the sound of solution C) as that would mess up my website. So, happy to just edit the html, thanks.
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Pardon me for the interruption but I type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Also subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.
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Lol, good luck timethief. In one of my threads someone said I needed to wait for staff. I said I’d create another thread but staff came to the old thread instead. So, maybe the trick is to put the word “staff” into one of your posts. Maybe the staff search for posts with the word “staff” in them to help find the ones where a member of staff is needed.
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There is no trick. Modlook is the correct tag to use. Some volunteers like nixiack8 are new and they need Staff to ghost their threads and make corrections where required. Please be patient while waiting.
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It’s ok timethief, I don’t really care how long they take. Just keep myself busy with some other task.
Was just trying to help you as you seemed to be having no joy getting a member of staff. Good luck.
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Update:
I’m having to clean out the website to get rid of the theme as that seems to cause all the problems. Theme settings keep overwriting everything.Aiming to have just a blank theme, if that’s possible and I don’t have to pay a premium just to have a blank page lol
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Hi there,
When I navigate to my website it as a gray menu at the top starting with “My Site”.
Below that is another menu in blue with the options, “Themes Support, Forums, News, Features”.At what link exactly do you see that? The other menu in blue you mention makes it sound like you’re viewing the dashboard, not the site itself. I don’t see those options appearing anywhere on your site.
To view your site, visit http://rejectlists.wordpress.com/ in your browser. Anyone who is logged into a WordPress.com account will see your site exactly like that, except for the Edit links which are visible only to you. Anyone not logged into a WordPress.com account will see your site as it looks in an incognito window in Chrome.
Could you also answer why my main image in Chrome is tiled, but isn’t in Firefox?
I don’t see any difference on your site between Firefox and Chrome. Can you please take a screen shot of what you’re seeing, and upload it to your site’s media library under My Site ->Media ->Add?
How can I make the main image a single image and fix the font so that it is Arial in all browsers?
Arial is not a web font, and we don’t use it anywhere on WordPress.com. You currently have the font Arimo set in the Customizer. I see your front page content is displaying in Arial after you added the inline CSS, but that’s only because I have Arial installed on my computer. That font won’t show for anyone who don’t have Arial on their computer already.
Inline CSS is not a reliable way to add a font to a website. There is no way to import a font we don’t already support to a site on WordPress.com.
I don’t see an image on your site’s front page at all, so I don’t know what you mean by the main image. To have an image display in the header section of your site’s front page you need to set a custom header in the Customizer. That image shouldn’t be tiled in any browser.
I’ve already addressed the “blank theme” question in the other thread. In future, please don’t start multiple support threads at once.
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