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| Some stuff doesn't belong on the Plant and Creature pages, so it's here. | ||
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These snowflake ornaments are made from rolled strips of paper, an old art form called paper quilling, or paper filigree. Here's a page on how to make the quilled paper snowflake ornaments. |
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| The beginning of my Gif collection (clipart type nature images) available for your personal use. | ||
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| Calibrate Your Monitor | April 08 update: I got most of the making web pages glitches fixed, I've gotten a lot of practice with the new camera, and now I've discovered that the pictures look completely different on different monitors. I'm working on calibrating my monitor. | |
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To change the size when you're looking at a site, you can hold the
control (ctrl) key on your keyboard while you press the + & - keys.
(View, text size, in the toolbar at the top also gives you larger and
smaller options if you'd rather do it by mouse clicks.) Internet
Explorer and Opera change the size of the whole screen, pictures and
all, so the layout of the page stays the same. Firefox leaves the images
alone, but changes the text size.
That's where I got stuck making my site; I figured out after making a lot of it that some folks couldn't read it all because the text went under (or over) the images when the text size got too big. I knew my design was dangerous, but I didn't know how to lay out the pages the way I wanted them and make the text shrink and grow properly, so I just left extra space for the text. Guess what - I didn't leave ENOUGH space to accommodate the various operating systems, browsers, monitors and resolutions. The best solution I could come up with was to add scroll bars when the text got too big. I don't WANT scroll bars all over my pages, so I'm still designing with HUGE text, and displaying it for you with a smaller text. That method looks fine on some computers, leaves too much empty space under the words on others, and adds scrollbars to the text areas on the rest. Let me know how it looks on your computer; I'm aiming for a happy medium that works for most people. |
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