Hi Nik

Thanks for the advice, I found the toolbar very useful, I managed to locate the problem for my extra large text.

Originally:  body { font: small Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif line-height: 1.1; }

 td,th,div,span,p,a,input,textarea{font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#303030; font-size: 9px;}

Changed to:

body, html {margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 5px 0px; background-color:#5B7C7C; background-image:url(pagebak.jpg); background-position:top left; background-repeat:no-repeat; height: 100%; text-align:center; }

/*Common*/

.Normal, .NormalTextBox, th, tfoot, thead, td, span,div, a, input, textarea{

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans Serif;  font-size: 10pt;  font-weight: normal; color:#303030;line-height: 1.1;}

I am pleased to say that this worked. My fonts are now displayed as intended.

However, I am still puzzled about the background of the container title.  No matter what I do it remains black.

Using the IE Developer toolbar. 

 I click on the module on the page and it displays the current style sheet, for the container holding the module.  

However, as well as the styles pertaining to the current container. An added property element is also shown which does not appear anywhere in my skin.css nor my container.css. 

 The element in question is: backgroundColor: black.  Where can this be coming from, I have scoured my skin.css and container.css and unable to locate it's source?

I looked on the default.css and deleted the whole section entitled

 /* LEGACY STYLES from DNN 1-2 */ which contained the only black background I could find.

.TabBg {
    background-color: black;
}

I have even tried using downloaded containers. But the result is the same.

Below is the containers. css file taken from the Red Leaf container from DnnCreative.com.

/* style for module title */
.Title_Sponsor {
   font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
   font-size:  110%;
   font-weight: bold;
   color: #fff;
}

.containerholder_sponsor
{
 border: 1px solid #006633; /*dark green */
 margin-bottom: 10px;
 background: #E8FFE8;  /*pastel green text box container */
}
.containerholder_transparentbox
{
    border: solid 1px #706633; /*very dark green */
    background-color: transparent;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.actions_sponsor
{
    border-bottom: 1px solid #006633;
    padding: 2px 5px;
    background-color:#5B7C7C; /*titlebackground */
}
.container_sponsor
{   
    padding:  6px 5px 0px 5px;
   /* height: 100%; */
}
.footer_sponsor
{
}
.sponsor
{
    font-size:  1.0em;
}