Frontpage default font settings

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Frontpage default font settings

gabby

10:55 pm on Apr 20, 2005 (gmt 0)

I am using FP 2002. I have set every possible option I can find so that the default font is Arial. Yet when I create a new page it reverts to Arial Serif. I have to highlight the text and change it to Arial. How do I set the default permanently to Arial?

jimbeetle

12:20 am on Apr 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

If you use Page Options > Default Fonts, you can set the character sets and the default proportional and fixed width fonts.

But, that is only for preview purposes on a local machine when a font is not specified. If served from the web (or even from a server on a local machine such as IIS), the user's browser preferences will prevail.

The only thing included in the basic FP html is the charset--no font tags or any other type of styling is included, as in this bare-bones FP-generated code:

So, without font information the browser will fall back on what its preferences are. To display the fonts you want in a page you have to spec the font in either the html or using css.

I skipped over FP 2002, so don't know what support it has for templates, you might want to look into that. Otherwise, simply linking to an external CSS stylesheet will help a bunch:

Frontpage has pretty good support for CSS. I'd recommend popping over to the experts at the W3C [w3c.org] and start getting a handle on the formatting properties in CSS1.