Fonts - in detail (Information taken from Dreamweaver)

Fonts are organised in the following groups in dreamweaver. If two fonts look the same, then its because you've not got one of them installed on your computer.

Fonts are kept in (Windows) the windows/fonts folder. You can have a look and see what fonts you've got installed. Be warned though, if you've added loads of fonts then your computer may act strangely when you open the fonts folder.

Arial, Helvetica, Sans Serif

Times New Roman, Serif

Courier New, Courier, Mono

Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif

Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans Serif

The reason for limiting the number of fonts used in HTML editors is simply that you could use whatever font you wanted ... but unless its installed on the person's computer who is viewing your page, they will just see it in an ordinary font.
If you want to use mad, crazy fonts then you'll have to do what I've done on this site and use a graphics program to make images with the words on. This ensures that the fonts you want will be see (OK, unless people are surfing with the pictures switched off - but we'll talk about alt text later).

If you want to add more fonts then you can, but don't think you'll be able to use them for ordinary everyday text on your web site. Well, you could, but the graphics will slow your page down to a crawl!