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To maintain consistency the fonts that you choose for your content need to be also installed on teh viewer's computer. There is only a small sub set of fonts commonly available to all web browsers and so this is why web designers typically restrict font styles for a website to a general font type like Verdana, Arial or Times New Roman.

FarCry users cascading style sheets (CSS), a separate linked text file that is a neat and effective way of describing text and other format elemants. Typically it is considered very bad practice to attempt to dictate font styles outside of the style sheet. This makes life easy for the contributor- just go with whatever font appears.

Beware of special characters such as &, ", #: to display correctly, they need to be inserted with a special code. Word processors have a notorious habit of adding all kinds of special characters to your content that will not necessarily display correctly on your web page.

Tip: A good piece of advice if you find yourself copy and pasting content from something like Word. Make sure you remove all the formatting before you paste the content. This can be done by cutting and pasting into Notepad first, before transferring the content to your web page.

In your html editor, hitting "enter" creates a new paragraph, while "shif-enter" creates a single carriage return.