Ooh.. good one Frank. I always hesitate on that one when I'm establishing text styles for a SiteStyle.
Something else on the same page that I've often wondered about is the default text and heading styles that are present when you first open up a style.
They are all set to:
Font: [Automatic]
Size: [_____] (blank)
What determines the actual properties with these settings? The users' browser?
P.S. Tausend Dank for the tutorial, Barbara. While I mostly follow those principles, it's nice to see it spelled out so clearly. My first sites with NOF used the properties panel exclusively and it's only over time and some comments on the newsgroup that I have weaned myself off of this.