arial font shows up as times roman

[jstech]

in frontpage 2003, design view, i type in arial. i have set this as my
default font. when i go to preview, i have times roman instead of arial. I
KNOW that this font is installed on my machine!!!. however, it is not
showing, and on the web, i see times roman in my page instead of arial. isn't
there a way to tell fp to publish the page with arial. ( I know that its a
common font and present on most, if not all machines)?
thanks

 

[David B.]

Oddly enough, the default font setting does not change the default font on
your pages, just what you see during editing, you need to manually select
the font you want.

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Take a look in the code view. Do you see the HTML code as Arial or Times New
Roman? I believe all you did was set the default font for the Code View.
FrontPage can't set a default font like you can in word because there is no
structured style information by default. You have to add stylesheet
information yourself. This is best done through an external stylesheet that
can then be attached to every page in your site to ensure a consistent
style.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - Expression

 

[jstech]

yes- i figured that out after i posted. pain in the extremej lower back!!
thanks