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Basic Text AttributesFONT TAG With the use of cascading stylesheets, the use of font tag has become obsolete, however is still acceptable on websites This is a basic font tag: This is how it would appear:  You can also make text stand out a bit with the bold tag: This is how it would appear: Use Italics: This is how it would appear: Please note: The Font Tag, Bold Tag, and Italics Tag can all be used at the same time. Be sure your beginning tag and ending tag are in the correct sequence, so they are all properly nested. This is how it appears: Special font on your page---NOT! If a surfer doesn't have your font installed on their system, your page will not be viewed the way it was intended. You can use a special font but be sure to put an alternate such as times new roman or helvetica. These are common fonts to most computers. If you want to be sure the surfer sees it the way you want...you will have to create an image file for your text. Watch the size of your font. Netscape in an 800 x 600 resolution makes a font size of "1" almost unreadable to some people. Remember some of us have old eyes, and are not viewing with the same resolution as you. Be sure all can read your text. The same goes for too big. I get annoyed when text is too large and I have to scroll right to see all the person wants to tell me. Big is okay for headings and to get your point across but if you have paragraphs of large text the viewer may not read on. Use the blinking and animated or scrolling text as little as possible if necessary. Too many activity all at once will make your page slow and annoying. Some browers allow the user to turn off the animations. If a page is too "busy", some will just move on to the next site. PRE TAG I like to type up my text and put it within the <pre></pre>. The pre tag will usually preserve spaces and line breaks, which means things stay exactly the way you type it and there is no need for additional line breaks and paragraph tags.
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