FrontPage98 Tips 

10. Add alternate fonts 

Whenever you use FrontPage's Font command to change the typeface of your text, you may be doing a bit of damage to the way your site works. You can't always be sure the font you specify will be available on your visitors' machines. If you make sure there's more than one choice, you increase the chances your Web pages will display the way you want them to. If the browser can't find the first font specified, it will go on to the second, and then the third, and so on. 

Another thing to look out for is whether the choices you provide are available on both Windows and Macintosh machines. For instance, if you start with the Verdana font and then list Arial as a second choice, you'll be leaving out the Mac folks because both those fonts are Windows-based. If you add Helvetica (which is available on the Mac) as a third choice, you can rest assured that's what your Mac visitors will see. 

Here are some commonly installed fonts: 

PC
Arial
Courier New
Times New Roman

Macintosh
Helvetica
Courier
Palatino
Times

To specify alternate fonts, you need to do some editing in the FrontPage Editor's HTML view. First, select the text you want to format in the Editor's normal view and choose your main font from the Font drop-down list. In keeping with our example, this should be Verdana. Now switch to HTML view and you should see your selected text with a new <FONT> tag and face attribute. Position the cursor right after Verdana and add Arial and Helvetica to the list. The resulting code should look like this: 

<FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><i>Some text goes here.</i></FONT> 

You can add as many font alternatives as you'd like, but don't go too crazy or you'll defeat the purpose of using a specific font in the first place. 
 

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