The idea of having style guidelines is to achieve a consistant look and feel about the site.

This does not restrict artistic flare, if you really need to do something like putting and extra

to emphasise, then you can do it, but if it is done lots then it loses all effect.

A better approach to this is to create some special classes that can be applied through the rich text editor (IE only). Then we could write a style called "scream" that set the top and bottom margins, centred, red and in caps.

This way if at a later date you want to change the look and feel you just go to the style sheet and not every page element in the site. In short it saves massive amounts of work and makes the site look so much more proffessional.

But the font is too small

The correct answer to this is set your browser text size, because this is a personal preference. However in reality the majority of people don't even know this feature even exists.

So the smart solution is to create several style sheets with different text sizes and with a little coding allow the visitor to select the style that suits them best. See A List Apart

Setting up the RTE for classes

Lets go to school with stylesheet classes for the RTE. The smart way to set up special formating is to use style sheets. Click here for the lesson.

CSS enables you to set the default fonts and colour scheme, background images and a whole host of other things.

Below is a copy of the CSS file used to set the fonts and colours for this site. You can download it, change it, and upload your own version to your filemount.

Then edit your template (found on your main page in the backend) with correct name of this file.