There are three fonts that viewers of your Website are almost guaranteed to have on their systems. These are Times New Roman (a serif font and the FrontPage 98 default font), Courier New (a mono spaced font also called Courier on Macintosh systems) and Arial (a sans-serif font also called Helvetica on the Macintosh). If you want to use a font other than these three, that's okay; be sure you also add one of these three fonts after your specialized font in the <font face=""> tags.

If you want to use a standard sans-serif font, follow these steps to insure the document will display correctly on both Windows 95 and Macintosh based browsers: 

 

1. Select the text you wish to modify in the FrontPage 98 Editor.
2. Choose Arial from the drop down font menu on the tool bar (or choose Font... from the Format menu, then choose Arial).
3. Click the HTML tab at the bottom left of the window.
4. Locate the section of your document that contains the tag: <font face="Arial">. Note that there may be other items in the font tag (for example, your font tag might look something like: <font color="#FFFFFF" size="1" face="Arial">. All we're interested in is what's between the face quotes. Leave the rest alone.
5. After the world Arial type: ",Helvetica". Don't forget the comma. The tag should now read something like: <font face="Arial,Helvetica">.
6. Go back to step 4 if you have more than one <font face="Arial"> tag in the document (you probably do).
7. Click the Normal tag to return to the standard view. That's it!

If you want to use a standard mono spaced or typewriter style font follow these steps to insure the document will display correctly on both Windows 95 and Macintosh based browsers: 

 

1. Select the text you wish to modify in the FrontPage 98 Editor.
2. Choose Font... from the Format menu.
3. Click the Typewriter check box, and choose Courier New in the Font selection box.
4. Click the OK button. That's it!

If you want to use a non-standard font in your Web page, follow these steps to insure the document will display as closely as possible to your original design in all browsers. In this example, we will use Verdana (a popular Windows 95 sans-serif font) as the non-standard font. Substitute the font you wish for Verdana in the steps below. 

 

1. Select the text you wish to modify in the FrontPage 98 Editor.
2. Choose Verdana from the drop down font menu on the tool bar (or choose Font... from the Format menu, then choose Verdana).

Because Verdana is a non-standard font, we add secondary fonts to display in the user's browser in the event they don't have Verdana installed on their computer. Verdana is a sans-serif font, so Arial is a good second choice (with Helvetica as the Macintosh equivalent). If you're using a serif font, you may want to use Times New Roman as your secondary choice. 

 

3. Click the HTML tab at the bottom left of the window.
4. Locate the section of your document that contains the tag: <font face="Verdana">. Note that there may be other items in the font tag (for example, your font tag might look something like: <font color="#FFFFFF" size="1" face="Verdana">. All we're interested in is what's between the face quotes. Leave the rest alone.
5. After the world Verdana type: ",Arial,Helvetica". Don't forget the commas. The tag should now read something like: <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">.
6. Go back to step 4 if you have more than one <font face="Verdana"> tag in the document (you probably do).
7. Close the HTML editing window. That's it!