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When you produce a word processed document you can choose what fonts and sizes to use from a list of fonts that are installed on your computer. You can get your document to look exactly how you want it to.
Designing a web page is more difficult. This is because different computers have different fonts installed. If you use a particular font on a page you can not be sure that a person reading the page will have the same font. Web design packages use two different approaches to overcome this problem.
| Styles | A range of pre-defined styles which each have a name can be selected. As well as normal text there are six types of heading and several other styles. When you design a web page you use these styles. You do not know exactly how the text will appear when it is looked at but you know that heading style one will stand out more than heading style two and so on. |
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| Font Matching | Using font matching you can pick the font and font size that you want to use for your text from the fonts that are installed on your computer. If a person who looks at your web page does not have the same font his web browser will use the most similar font that is available. To increase the probability that another person has the same font as you it is a good idea to only use common fonts such as Times New Roman or Arial. Font matching only works with newer web browsers. |
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Each font can have a range of extra styles applied to it. The three common styles that can be used on a web page are :
Underline style can also be used on web pages but this is not normally done. This is because hyperlinks are underlined so underlined text could easily be mistaken for a hyperlink.
Alignment describes the position at which text appears on a line on the page. On a web page, text can be aligned to the left, center or right of the page.
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Font Colour
The colour of text can be specified. Most web pages make use of lots of colour because they are displayed on monitors which can easily show colour. If it is likely that your page will be printed out then you should check how the colours you have chosen look on a black and white printout as some colours do not show up very well.
GCSE ICT Companion 04 - (C) P Meakin 2004