This brings up the old debate about structure vs. presentation. I'm a big
proponent of using the proper H1 through H6 levelings for headings, and then
adjusting their presentation using CSS (or, ugh, if you hate CSS, then with
font tags within the heading tags).

In that way, you preserve the necessary hierarchical leveling of your
information for browsers that do not support graphical displays. More
theoretically, you preserve your leveling (which equates with "meaning") for
some as yet to be futuristic web browsing medium that puts value back on
content.

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-----Original Message-----
From: rudy limeback [mailto:r937(at)interlog.com]

> Different font sizes have their place, and help the user
> to visually prioritize the information on a page.
> It's the same principle as using headlines.

not to pick on you or anything, but what's wrong with <h1> through <h6> for
that purpose?

and darrell, i hope i didn't come across as suggesting that you use "only a
larger font size"

on the contrary, i was trying to say don't use a smaller size

my advice is don't touch the font size at all -- let it default

use <h1> through <h6> where appropriate

use <small> where appropriate

use <em> and <strong> where appropriate

this will cover 95% of all your day-to-day needs, and color will do the
rest

plus, this strategy is *really* cross-browser   ;o)

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