Publishing Telugu Web Pages:

If you know the basics of how to create HTML files its very easy publish in Telugu.
You can publish Telugu Web pages in many ways: Text Based, Image Based, Text Based with Embedded fonts. Each of these methods are described below.

1. Text Based Telugu Web Publishing:

You simply create a HTML file that has text typed in Telgu. http://www.sirigina.com/telugu is an example of this method. For example: you could type "swaagatam" in TeluguLipi Editor, copy the Telugu text from it and paste into your HTML file. In the html, make sure that your text is enclosed in font tags like this: <font face="Telugu Lipi" size="4"> ³ÂíÁœÁÏ</font> When you open the html file in IE Browser, you will see the text displayed in Telugu. Before you test it, you also need to add the following line in your HTML file between <head> and </head> tags.

Your resulting HTML file should look like this.

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined">
<title>TeluguLipi HTML Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<font face="Telugu Lipi" size="5"> ³ÂíÁœÁÏ</font>
</body>
</html>

In this method, you are expecting your visitors to have TeluguLipi Fonts already installed on their machines. So on every page, you need to tell your visitors that they need to have TeluguLipi fonts and direct them to our site to download the font.

You can use TeluguLipi Editor it self to create the HTML files in this manner. Simply type your text and in the file menu choose "Export As HTML" option. Note: Don't use graphic editors like Front page to edit the HTML files with Telugu text in them. Because these editors will changes the extended characters to codes that may not show correctly in Telugu.

2. Image Based Telugu Web Publishing

The above Text based method requires your visitors to download and install TeluguLipi Font. But some of your visitors may be reluctant to do that for a varity of reasons. If the content you are going to publish is interesting enough, then people will definitely install the font. Alternatively, you can publish the site completely with Text Images. Http://www.sirigina.com/krishna is an example of this method. In this method, using TeluguLipi Editor create your web site content in paragraphs. Using a graphic editor, create a jpg or gif image of that text. Then create html pages using those text images. Try to minimize the size of the files generated.

This method is very simple for your visitors, but the page may take some time to download. But these days with every one having DSL connections, it may not be an issue.

3. Text Based with Embedded Fonts

This method is little bit more complicated and technical in nature, at least in the beginning. Instead of asking your visitors to download and install fonts, you would stream fonts dynamically to their browser. These dynamic fonts will be accepted by the browsers and install them for temporary use. Once the browser is closed, these fonts also will disappear.

Unfortunatley, IE and Netscape don't see eye to eye on dynamic fonts. IE accepts files .eot file and Netscape accepts .pfr file. You need specialized software and permission from the font owners to create these files. A company called Bitstream used to sell a tool (about $300) which would create .pfr files for Netscape. For IE browsers, Microsoft provides a free tool called Microsoft WEFT 3.0 which creates .eot files. Please visit http://www.microsoft.com/typography/default.asp

If you are interested in creating .eot or .pfr files for TeluguLipi fonts, please contact us for permission. Our free font licence does not allow you to redistribute the fonts in any manner with out prior consent from us. Please send an email to srinivas@sirigina.com for details.

In this method, you would create HTML files the same way you did in the method 1. And you add the following few lines to stream the dynamic fonts between <head> and </head> tags.

<link rel=fontdef src="//www.yourdomain.com/myfont.pfr">
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">

</STYLE>