I tried to get on via the W3?? in the right corner of the home page, made no sense to me. If I lose this website I will go crazy, so whatever you decide to do, don't change this site that we know until you are sure we can get where you are going. Otherwise you will leave some of us lost, who need this site something awful. I just found you all, do not leave me. Tom and I won't be able to golf, drink margaritas or watch the sunset yet...he has surgery friday, rad next 3-6 weeks for starters.

Since 80% of the site has been rebuilt over the last 4 months, is up and running well, and you are still here, I think it is safe to say that you are not in daanger of losing us. What I had hoped was that more people would actually wander around the hundreds of pages of content and PDF's on the site READ THEM, and find things that were wrong.... I guess this thread has turned more into a discussion of two issues, and I have yet to get one email about a typo, a link which goes to the wrong place or anything else, which was my original request. Perhaps you have all been looking but have not found anything. The main architecture of the site is beyond the comprehension of most people that come here. Given the hundreds of people that come everyday, it appears to be working well even with the new pages, as it has for years. I just needed a little help making it flawless.

Brian,

I have spent so much time here, I would be happy to browse away. Much better for me than dream shopping! My husband and kids love (and hate) my critical eyes for proofing, but you asked for it!

Thank you for the opportunity to assist you!

Sincerely,
Lisa

I'm not having any problems accessing anything. The site is working just fine. What I do have a problem with is the pages being too wide. I now have a slide bar on the bottom of the screen. I find it somewhat bothersome to keep moving that bar back and forth to read every line. I've changed the text size but that doesn't do anything to the total size of the page. I still have that slide bar that has to be moved to read every line, just the text gets smaller.

Help? How do I get the page width to fit on my screen the way it naturally did before?? I've actually stopped reading discussion groups for this very reason.

Your monitor settings on your computer are wrong. Our web site pages are 8.25 inches wide. You can't possibly be looking at monitor smaller than that. So this has to be in your monitor preferences and it thinks that you have a bigger monitor than you do, and it is displaying things at the wrong resolution. I am not a PC person, I use MACs, but for sure this is an easy reset of what it thinks your monitor resolution is. For sure you are going to have to scroll vertially, some of our pages are 20" tall.... Perhaps some other PC user here can walk you through this. and while the page always has a black backgorund behind it and on a giant monitor you can strech the page as wide as you want, you only get more black around the page, and the width of the site's message board remains the same.

Your display preferences need to be changed.

Right click anywhere in a blank area of your desktop and then click on properties on the menu that pops up

when the window opens select the settings tab at the top

if the slide bar on the left reads 600 X 400 then you are either running in safe mode, you have accidentally changed the setting, or your video driver has taken a hike and you are running on the lame vga standard that is a windows default

change the setting by sliding the bar to the right until you reach 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768

it may ask you to keep the changes select yes

if the computer is running in safe mode then just reboot

if you have a laptop then reboot as they tend to reset themselves to the default for the screen

if none of this works or if you have no other selection and the bar will not slide or is grayed out then your video driver has failed or become corrupt

you can try to reinstall the correct driver or take the computer to a qualified technician (NOT BEST BUY) and have them do it for you

I hope this helps! Good luck.

Cindy

Oh yea.. one more thing,

Brian, you need to center the site map banner at the bottom of the screen

it looks a little odd on the left
:-)

Cindy

What page site map are you talkng about? The small nav bar at the bottom of this page for instance is centered, everyting on one line. The site map link at the bottom of all the other main links on the home page is in line with all the other links. They are all on the left so I cannot figure out what you are talking about. On this page depending on how you have your font size set (default or not) it will appear in differnet possitions as you increase the font site away from default. Increase the font size by one factor on my monitor, and it will force the seach and the site map links to a second line, increase the font size again, and newsletter moves to a second line along with them, but still centered. But if you begin to decrease the font size until you get to the preset default (medium) all the liks are on one staight line centered, not on two lines. Casacading style sheets allow you lots of latitude in how you view web pages. But if you want to view it the way it was built you have to let the page work at the default settings. Safari, FireFox, will test properly some old versions of IE will display differently. Microsoft hasn't gotten IE up to current standards. They keep syaing that they are going to get it out, but every six months they set a new date, forward by months. We can't build a site for a browser which isn't up to the current standards that even they are working towards.

I am using IE V7.05 and have for over a month now. it is a beta test version and works better then IE6 but like others have mentioned the little banner window at the bottom (with the W3C logo on it is offset to the left of the screen. The earlier version highlighted the previous topic you were looking at the new pages do not.

Brian
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