fathom - 7:04 am on Nov 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

I think <h1> tags would be too big

Not at all. The use of "on-page Cascading Styles Sheets (CSS) or using an external CSS is not just a common practice, it is a preferred method of professional designers and SEO as well as a standard laid out by W3C.org.

The style sheet allow you to pre-define font size color margins font weight and font family. Font family is very useful since not all computer have the same font, so if they don't have one, their browser will use the next.

You can argue the "system fonts" are best for the web but rather bland for attempting to make your site unique, interesting and motivating.

Personally I use external CSS to keep the page code down to a minimum:

add this statement to your header

<link rel="stylesheet" href="quilts.css" type="text/css">

In notepad (or another text editor copy (example only, good to experiment first:

H1 {
COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, arial, helvetica, san-serif; FONT-SIZE: 16px; FONT-WEIGHT: 800
}

H2 {
COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: verdena, arial, helvetica, san-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: 800; MARGIN-LEFT: 6px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 6px
}
H3 {
COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, arial, helvetica, san-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-LEFT: 6px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 6px
}
.text {
COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, arial, helvetica, san-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; MARGIN-LEFT: 6px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 6px
}

save text file as quilts, open html editor or FTP software and change txt extention to css, your CSS is created.

On web pages change <font>tags</font> to <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, for various titles and text paragraphs <font></font> to <text>

You can define CSS tags to whatever you wish using (period) and then word as in .word and/or alpha-numeric 2 character designators.

In the page tag itself you can also define alignment parameters (e.g. <text align="justify">text place </text>