lucy24 - 9:15 pm on Aug 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

What are all those extra </font> tags doing?

Answer: One by one they're closing off mismatched opening <font> tags from elsewhere in the document, leading to a cascade of changing sizes and colors.

If you must use <font>

:: insert three pages of heated discussion ::

make sure it follows the same rules as any other inline style tag: open and close within a block-level element like, here, a header. Or do I mean heading? Same as you'd do with <i> and similar.

Validation can't hurt either.