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We recommend that viewers of this web site use computer display settings which optimize the appearance of color photographs, and also provide the best proportions for each screen of our text and pictures. At a minimum those settings should be 1024 x 768 pixels (the XGA video standard) with 16-bit color depth. Choosing a higher display resolution than XGA will improve the readability of our text. We support the website today using 1440 x 960 on an Apple Powerbook G4. To set these parameters, users of Microsoft Windows can go to Start=> Settings=> Control Panel=> Display=> Settings tab, and Apply the necessary changes to the "Colors" and "Screen Area" parameters for your current session. Users of Apple's OS-X or earlier versions can open System Preferences under the Apple, and click on the icon named "Displays" under the general heading "Hardware." |
| For the user with a particularly slow internet interface, like a dial up telephone line for instance, we have optimized the presentation of our image essays by reducing the file size of our images. If you find that things slow down to a snail's pace when opening an image essay, try clicking the REFRESH icon on your browser toolbar. This will re-establish the download task from the server and will oftentimes speed up the process. For each essay, remember to WAIT (especially if you have a slow interface) until all the small images have been completely downloaded to your computer, before clicking on any thumbnail to open it in a larger window. |
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This site was originally designed and developed using a text editor under Windows98®. The computer was an Intel powered laptop with an XGA display, set at a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels and 16-bit color. It should be noted that all our website screens will appear properly proportioned when viewed at that video resolution or higher. Most of our web palette color choices are referenced through hexadecimal RGB values. Our HTML was originally tested using Internet Explorer 5.0.
If your computer hardware does not support the XGA video standard but your graphics adapter is capable of rendering 1024 x 768 pixels, it is possible that you will have to resort to panning in order to view the entire screen of text or displayed images through your browser window. In addition to a compatible display resolution, color images will appear more realistic and more representative of the artist's conception when at least 16-bit color is used to render them on your computer display screen. We have used FRAMES in our design and we are using JavaScript to open additional windows. This means that our site will most satisfactorily be viewed using a browser that both supports FRAMES and is JavaScript enabled. Our electronic form uses the FormMail v1.6 cgi script from Matts Script Archive, Inc. |