Web design and 12 examples of Paragraph Typography

Plenty of good information here on paragraph styles for the web, and may be helpful for our 1st styling assignment for a web page:

The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design by Jon Tangerine

http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/06/the-paragraph-in-web-typography-and-design

..."The context, meaning and tone of web copy should always determine typographic style. Reading the text in full—or at least understanding what the text might be before styling it—is a pre-requisite. A common mistake is to allow the design to dominate the text: Design for design’s sake, or even worse, fashion’s sake."...

...."People experience the Web differently to print. The Web is not linear; in print people most often read sequentially, from front to back. They may flip, looking for something that catches their eye. After an initial look, they may skip back to interesting items using a table of contents or an index. On the Web this is reversed. Skipping to a certain page via the menu is habitual. This has been encouraged by bad design and web copy writing where inline links in the running text are sparse, if available at all."....