A clear sign of an amateur web designer is their use of the font tag. This tag was deprecated in HTML 4.01 which means it should no longer be used. Not only does it clutter up your documents, but it makes the look and feel of your website more difficult to change.

If you absolutely must change a font on a page, use an inline style so that you can stay standards compliant. In the end, however, you’ll save yourself a lot of time and effort by referencing an external style sheet.

The HTML editor that is the most notorious for inserting those darn font tags is Microsoft Front Page. More current versions of this program have discontinued this practice but if you’re using an older version of Front Page (or any HTML editor for that matter) you’ll probably want to have a look at the HTML to make sure that it’s not laden with font tags.