Fonts are great, you have fancy script fonts, handwriting fonts, dingbats, title fonts, the choices are huge with well over 9000 fonts now available and if you still cannot choose, you can download a program to make your own.
But choosing a font for your website is a different matter. the font (s) you choose for your site will only be seen by your visitors if they have that font installed on their PC, so the rarer the font the less chance of your visitors having it installed and the less chance they will see your site the way you want them to!
We do have a work around called CSS font families, you start off stating your preferred choice of font, then pick a second choice, and a third or forth. this will allow the browser to choose which font is installed, from the stated list
Luckily most fonts come with Windows, and MS Office, so there is a good chance most people will have the same standard fonts installed as you have, but, just as their are "websafe" colours, we have "websafe" fonts, and they are:
If you do want to use a strange and peculiar font for your headers or advertising, it is recommended that you make a graphic using that font, and ALL your visitors will be able to see it. Make sure you use this method for text that never or hardly ever changes.
Most web pages use text blocks, or divs, and the text inside the block needs to be justified. The options are:
Justified, spreads the words automatically across the page to try and give a vertical line of text on both end of the text block,
Left justified, is the norm where the words line up down the left hand side of the page.
Right being the opposite letting the words line up down the right hand side of the text block
Centered, is just that each line is centered in the text block, this is normally used for poetry and verse.
A great tool to check your text layout is Marko Dugonji’s Typetester, found at:
This will let you change the font settings at will including spacing between the letters and justification, this is done in a three column layout, so you will have a good idea how it will look on your page and then when you are happy with your layout, it will give you the corresponding CSS coding.
"Content is King" or "Unique Content is King", remember we already have a list to work from, your Project Goals. This will help you to stay on subject, and stop you from "Rambling on and on" and "going off on a tangent". Remember your goal and give your visitors what THEY want, not what you think they should know
Break large text blocks into smaller pieces, making it easier to read a block at a time and use the Heading styles in your layouts, (H1, H2, H3 etc.) as well as looking more professional, it will also help the search engines to list your site.