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Now the other thing you might want to change is the font. Often when we have headlines like this, we want a font other than or different than the text. So if I come down at the font options, let us make this an Arial Font. You may find it a little strange here but there are so many font options. What is all that about? Why is it Arial, Helvetica, San serif, and Time Serif? Dreamweaver knows that although you can specify any font in a web page on the internet, that font if you are just formatting text on a webpage will only appear in the font you chose if the person viewing your page has that same font on their computer.
This can be really restrictive when you want to create high design websites. And the way around it is that if you want to use a special font, you can always create it as a graphic. So if you are making a logo or a headline and you want to use an unusual font, you will just save it as a gif or a jpeg and insert it in your pages as a graphic. You would not want to do that for the entire page because graphics take longer to download, they are harder to update. So wherever you can, format the text with font options and when you really want a special font create an image.
The reason you have so many font choices here is that Dreamweaver has preset font combinations based on the common fonts on people’s computers. So, Arial as you see here on this list is a very common font of PCs. Helvetica is a common font on Macintoshes. And the way each html works if you specify three options like these, when the browser gets to a webpage, it will look first for Arial and if it does not find that on the visitor’s hard drive, it will look for Helvetica and if it does not find that, it will look for whatever San serif font it can find. Similarly, if it cannot find Times New Roman, it will look for Times or at least some Serif Font. By the way, if you do not know Serif and San serif, Serifs are those cute little curly things on the corners here. This I a Times Font and San Seriff is the smooth ones like this in Arial.
So Dreamweaver has created these collections of common fonts, their preset so that you can easily apply them. But you can also edit the font list and Add and Create any combination of fonts you want. Just remember again that if they are not on your user’s computer, they will display them whenever the default font is which is usually Times in most browsers. Once you have created any new font list that you want, you just click okay to close this dialogue.
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