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Originally Posted by alienzhavelanded
Over the weekend I revamped my site, changing the font to one I thought looked the best. Once I was done, I realized that many Win 95/98 machines didn't come with the font I'd selected, so anyone without it were seeing it in Times New Roman at a crappy size. So how did I fix it? Well..for those of you new to design...CSS ROCKS! (snip)Using it I was able to choose my main font, and a second font and size for anyone who didn't have the first one. This ensured the site was displayed consistently the right way.
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Not that I'm trying to argue against using CSS but if for some reason you prefer not to you don't need it to specify alternate fonts. You can do it in HTML by specifying, for example, <BASEFONT SIZE=5 FACE="Arial, Verdana, Lucida Sans, Courier New, Comic Sans MS"> or <FONT FACE="Arial, Verdana, Lucida Sans, Courier New, Comic Sans MS">. The page will then be viewed in whatever font the visitor has on his/her computer, in order of priority reading left to right. If none of the fonts specified are available on the vistor's computer, the page will be displayed in whatever is the default font, so the advice to specify at least one common font and make sure that your page looks at least presentable in that font is still pertinent.
I have a suspicion that older browsers may not support this but then again they probably don't support CSS either...