Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have become the industry standard for controlling the appearance of fonts.

Think of CSS as a control panel for all the fonts on an entire web site. CSS allows you to quickly change fonts, colors and other attributes globally. Not only can you create a more custom look and feel, even in wordpress templates, but your pages will load faster. The cleaner code in your html page – minus all those font tags – is easier to work with.

You can learn the basic of CSS in the book “CSS: The Definitive Guide,” published by O’Rielly or try out an online web design class. www.killerwebdesigncourse.com is a course that does a thorough job of covering what you need to know.

A good visual editing program for writing clean CSS code which will validate is Top Style Pro. There’s a free trial version for the PC on their website.