Okay....tearing apart some very, very messy code and cleaning up. I have a few very basic error functions that return a string. Is it bad style to not incorporate my style sheet for the fonts (i.e. there are font tags on these phrases).
yeah, it's not great design - not least because the font tag is deprecated. benefits of css are that you can change the style globally - say you have a class of errorMsg. Of course, you could write your own error handling routines in php... 🙂