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The biggest crime against web design is quite often the overuse of different fonts or the use of non-standard fonts on a web site.

Here are some general rules that you should follow:-

• Do not use more than three different fonts
• It is recommended that for body text you use a sans-serif font i.e. Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, etc as these have been proven easier to read
• Try to use Tahoma or Verdana for large bodies of text as these fonts were especially designed to be read from a screen 
• Do not mix sans-serif and serif fonts i.e. Roman and Arial. There are a few exceptions to this rule such as a logo being of a Roman type face and the body text being sans-serif. 
• Try not to go overboard with font sizes for headlines as these use up valuable screen space.
• Restrict the use of colours in text. Using colours to highlight words could confuse users in to thinking it was a hyperlink.

On the whole, styling a web site is down to common sense. Present the user with clearly legible text and obvious navigation and you can't go wrong.