VIEWING THE SITE
The Museum of Family History
was created for the browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and a
Windows operating system, with a screen resolution of 1024
pixels by 768 pixels, a setting found more and more on newer
computers. This resolution should produce a sharp image when
viewed on your computer screen when using the same resolution, though it
will position the page to the left side of the screen. If viewed,
however, with a screen resolution of 800 pixels by 600 pixels, the web page presented will
mostly center itself on the screen and occupy
the majority of its width, increasing the size of the print and photographs,
though slightly decreasing the sharpness of the print.
The site is best viewed using a normal, or medium, text size
setting. Viewing the site with larger or smaller text size might
occasionally produce graphic anomalies. Another way to expand
the web pages and increase the print size is to change the
resolution settings to a lower number, e.g. 800 pixels by 600
pixels. This can be done by going to your computer's Control
Panel, clicking on Settings, then the Display icon. By sliding
the arrow in the Screen Resolution window until it reads 800 by
600 pixels, and clicking on "OK," you will be lowering the
screen resolution but increase the size of the page and text.
You can always revert back to your original settings in the same
manner when you are done viewing the site.
The colors that appear on each page will vary based on several
factors, e.g. what browser you are using, what size your
computer screen is, and what the brightness setting is. The site
has not been tested against other browsers such as Firefox
(identified as Mozilla before 2005), Opera or Landscape. There might be a difference between
the perceived color that is seen on a desktop
computer (often a CRT, i.e. cathode ray tube) and that which is
seen on a laptop (a
brighter, LCD, i.e. liquid crystal display). Many pages have
recently been redone with respect to their color and text to minimize the differences that may occur. Attempts have been made to
change the page colors in order to provide a greater contrast between
the text and the background behind the text, especially with
respect to the poor contrast that may have existed in the past between links (royal
blue in color) and backgrounds of a similar blue color.
TOOLS
In order to take full advantage of all that the Museum has
to offer, it is suggested that you visit the Downloads section
(appearing on the Site Map page) and download onto your computer
some or all of the software it offers. Having this software on your
computer, if you don't already have it on your computer, will probably be useful at
other times when you're not visiting the museum. There are
downloads for various Microsoft software, e.g. Excel
(spreadsheets), Word, Media Player (audio clips and music),
PowerPoint (slide presentations), as well as for Adobe
reader, useful for reading PDF files. Of special importance when
visiting this museum is
Windows Media Player, as this will enable you to listen to the growing
number of sound recordings on this site. The symbol
when found indicates that a particular exhibition has an audio
component to it. You may also be able to use QuickTime from
Apple to play any videos (marked by the symbol
when available.) |
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