Fonts on PC look different from iWeb 08 vs. iWeb 09?

I don't know if its a fault in iWeb or Safari but, even using web-safe fonts, the bold version in particular always looks thicker online and is not so easy to read.

It's the same in Safari and Firefox. It is an iWeb problem. The font was a little bit fatter in iWeb 08, but still quite good. This has changed in iWeb 09.
And why does the font suddenly become leaner when you turn the text into an image?
Have a look here:
http://web.me.com/heli1/Test/Blank.html

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The browser that downloads your website pulls the font from the computer.
An image is an image and is reproduced like the original.
Turning text into an image is OK for using sparingly. Repeated use will dramatically increase your download time.

That is why I want my fonts to look correctly. There is no reason why a font when written in iWeb comes out much fatter and unreadable when published and read on the net.
It's either a problem with iWeb or with Leopard.

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Let them know - I have!

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html

I already did. Thanks.

Roddy raises a very important point. iWeb has many fonts to choose from, but using anything except the web-safe fonts will create the potential for display problems on different computers and browsers.

For example in this html code:
+font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;+

The first choice in the font sequence is Verdana. If Verdana is not available to the browser or specific computer then the next choice will be Arial followed by Helvetica.

If your iWeb page is set up to use fonts other than web-safe fonts, it might look OK on your Mac, but not on someone else's PC or on a different web browser than yours. The browser will skip your first intended font for one it can properly display. So in this sense iWeb is not to blame.

If you choose to use a rare font in iWeb (for instance hurculanum), the browser might skip it in favor of an installed web-safe font such as arial. To get around this you can add a shadow to the font in iWeb, but then it converts the text to an image file which search engines won't be able to catalog.

There are many websites that publish lists of web-safe fonts for various browsers and operating systems. Google is your friend.

For my sites I stick with arial - views fine on every computer and every browser.

We are talking about Japanese fonts here, which are available both in Macs and PCs. This is not an issue of websafe fonts. There is an issue with iWeb 09. It does not publish the fonts as they should. The font-weight is set to 700 when it should be normal. The structure of iWeb 09 has changed and that means trouble for some people.
On my homepage the audio keeps disappearing after publishing an addition or a new blog item. And when you make a correction suddenly two image icons appear instead of one, which means there is something wrong.
So what you see on your Mac when making your iWebsites is not what you get back on your Mac when published. That is not as it should be.
It is a bug.

using anything except the web-safe fonts will create the potential for display problems on different computers and browsers.

As Appeltjehehe said, web-safe fonts are not the issue here. This is quite easy to demonstrate. Also that iWeb 08 did not do it.

I understand your current dilemma, but I had the same problem with fonts in iWeb 08 until I started using web-safe fonts. This was the only way for me to get consistency from browser to browser. Unfortunately I've never had perfect luck with iWeb in a number of ways and always find myself monkeying around with the HTML/CSS files to some extent.

So in my particular case incorrect fonts are not a totally new problem, but perhaps with the changes made in iWeb 09 the problem is magnified. Fonts being incorrectly displayed as bold is definitely not new and has been a documented issue since iWeb 1.0. I haven't looked deeply enough into the iWeb 09 output files to figure out all the changes Apple has made, but one thing is for sure. iWeb09 doesn't "just work".

I had the same problem with fonts in iWeb 08 until I started using web-safe fonts. This was the only way for me to get consistency from browser to browser.

No, you had a totally different problem. The problem we are talking about does not relate to consistency between browsers but to iWeb 09 producing code that does not respect the weight of the font chosen for the text, so that neither Safari not any other browser will display it correctly.

It's not a problem of websafe fonts, mine ARE websafe, both available for Macs and PC. The problem is with iWeb 09 and the Mac. The characters look much better on MSIE8 for instance.
http://web.me.com/heli1/Test/Blank.html
If that problem existed already before, I'm definitely going back to iWeb 08.

As I already mentioned, the font weight problem is not new to iWeb09 and has been an issue since iWeb 1.x. For me it unfortunately has exhibited itself differently from browser to browser. IMO the only fix, until Apple addresses this long-existing problem, is to manually tweak iWeb's output code.

Cheers and good luck.

IMO the only fix, until Apple addresses this long-existing problem, is to manually tweak iWeb's output code.

Agreed, that is fix, rather than trying to find a different font.