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COLOR REQUIREMENTS Our site was designed to be seen on a color monitor that shows at least 256 (8 bit) colors. If you aren't sure how many colors your monitor will display, click here to test your monitor color depth. How to change monitor color settings Windows 95 From the Start Menu, select Settings, and then select Control Panel. Double-click on Display. Choose the Settings tab. Make sure the window on the lower left shows at least 256 colors. To see what the window ought to look like, you can see a screenshot of proper color settings. You may be able, depending on your hardware, to set the number of colors even higher, to 16-bit (High Color) or 32-bit (True Color). Macintosh Under the Apple Menu, select Control Panels. When the folder of control panels opens, double click on the Monitors (or Monitors and Sound on Power Macintosh computers) control panel. Select the largest number of colors available on your machine. If your monitor is set to a high resolution, sometimes reducing the resolution will allow you to select more colors. To see what these control panels should look like, you can take a look at a picture here of the Monitor or the Monitor and Sound control panels. Windows 3.x From the Control Panel, select Windows Setup. From the Options menu, select Change System Settings. Click on the Display pull-down menu to bring up a list of possible settings. Each possible setting shows a resolution (such as "1024x768") and a number of colors (such as "256c"). Select the highest resolution and number of colors you can, and click "Ok." Windows may prompt you to insert one of the installation disks at this point! You can look at screenshots of these steps. RETURN to the top of the page

WINDOW SIZE Our site was designed to be seen in a browser window of at least 640 pixels by 480 pixels. On many pages, larger windows will offer even better results. If you have a small monitor, there are several things you can do to enlarge the effective size of your browser window. First, make sure you stretch the window to become as large as will fit inside your monitor. Next, follow the steps below to gain more space in your browser window. How to increase browser viewing area Netscape Navigator: Under the Options menu, turn off the options "Show Toolbar," "Show Location" and "Show Directory Buttons." Microsoft Internet Explorer: Under the View menu, turn off the options "Button Bar," "Address Bar," "Status Bar" and "Favorites Bar." AOL: Under the Services menu, turn off the options "Show Current URL" and "Show Link URL." NCSA Mosaic: Under the Options menu, select "Hide URL" and "Hide Status Messages." Other Browsers: Look on each of the pull-down menus for options to turn off tool bars, status messages, and URL display. RETURN to the top of the page

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