Exploring Font Face and Other Tidbits

If you plan on changing your font from the default (basically Times), make sure you include a font that works on both a PC and a Mac. To accomplish this task, use the code: <font face = Arial, Helvetica > in order to insure that you are using a font found in both Mac/PC platforms. You can also set the size of the fonts to absolute or relative (size=+1, size=-1). The range for relative is +1 to +7. Although I have seen Absolute settings like size=12 and size=14 used, I am not convinced they work well on all browsers. The general sizes are as follows:

Giant Huge Big Large Normal Small Tiny Be aware that font sizes are smaller on Macs than on PCs. Always look at your page on both computers. Although only 5% of all internet users are on Macs, know that 70% of all commercial web pages are made on Macs.

Also, don't use font changes just to use font changes. Color, bold, italic and size allow for enough contrasts of fonts on a web page.

Observe the table below. How was color placed inside of the table data cells???????

Manipulation by:	Description
SuperScript	You can make something superscript, like^this.

The table above also helps to illustrate the complexity involved in changing fonts and background colors inside of tables. The table tag cannot be inside of a font tag. The only way to make font changes in tables is to insert the font face code and the bgcolor code into each TD line of a table! This could entail a great deal of work and could make the table swallow bandwidth while loading. The table above sure does look great though!

Your objective:

Go to the site below and use it to make a table with various background cell colors and text colors: Table Colors