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Tips for better browsing

Q. How do I increase the font size on my browser?
You may want to make the text size larger, so the text is easier to read. Just follow these simple procedures to change the font size on your computers.

Microsoft Internet Explorer
If you use a WIN PC and your browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer: Choose Fonts from the View menu to display a submenu of relative sizes, and then choose largest, larger, medium, smaller, smallest to fit your needs.

If you use a Mac and your browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer: Choose Text Size from the View menu to display a submenu of relative sizes, and then choose largest, larger, medium, smaller, smallest to fit your needs.

Netscape Navigator
If you have a Mac and your browser is Netscape Navigator 3.01 follow these steps:

Choose General Preferences in the Options menu. The General Preferences dialog box appears.
Click on the Fonts tab and the Fonts preferences will be displayed.
Choose a font and size in the pop-up menus next to Use the Proportional Font to select how most of the text in your Web pages will be displayed.
Choose a font and size in the pop-up menus next to the Use the Fixed Font to decide how text in forms, block quotes and other special areas should be displayed.
Click OK to close the dialog box.

If you have a PC and your browser is Netscape Navigator 3.01, do this:

Choose General Preferences in the Options menu. The General Preferences dialog box appears.
Click on the Fonts tab and the Fonts preferences will be displayed.
Click on the Choose Font box next to Use the Proportional Font. Select the font and the size you wish then click OK.
Click on the Choose Font box next to Use the Fixed Font. Select the font and the size you wish, then click OK.
Click OK to close the dialog box.

Netscape Communicator
If you have a Mac and Netscape Communicator (4.x) is your browser:

Choose Preferences in your Edit menu. In the Category frame on your left, click on Appearance, then click on Fonts. A dialog box will appear.
In Variable Width Font, select a font style you'd like and a size. In Fixed Width Font, select the font and the size you prefer.
In the same dialog box, look for "Sometimes a page will specify its own fonts." There are three choices. Choose "Use my fonts, over-riding page-specific fonts."
Close the dialog box by clicking OK.

Tips for navigating
You can use two tools to travel from one Web page to another:

Hyperlinks:
Hyperlinks, also called links, are images or text that are embedded in a Web page which make it possible for you to jump from one piece of information to a related document or site by clicking on it. Text links often appear in blue and are underlined. Another way to recognize links is by moving your cursor to the link on the screen. When you move your mouse over a link, the cursor changes to a pointing hand.

Browser Buttons:
Look up at the browser tool bar. The tool bar is the line of buttons at the top of the browser window. You will probably see two buttons on the top; one will say something like “Back.” The other button should say something like “Forward.” You can
click on the Back button to go to the page you were just visiting. Once you've gone
back, you can click Forward to get to the next page.

Browser Error Messages
Errors occasionally occur during Internet use. This section describes some of the error messages you might run across during your Web experience.

What to do if you see "No answer," "Timed out," "Too busy"?
The server you are trying to access may be too busy or temporarily down. If this happens to you, try again by clicking reload after a couple of minutes.

What does "Error 404, Page/File not found" mean?
There are many reasons that this message might appear. It may be that the link no longer exists, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) address has been changed or is simply not valid. Check the following and try entering your URL again:

Double check your URL, make sure it's entered correctly.
Check the lower/upper case of each character. URLs are partially case-sensitive.
Check for any non-alphanumeric symbols and make sure they are ok.
If your URL has more than one directory level, try to move up in the tree, i.e. remove the last level and try again (you do this by deleting the characters in the location bar back to the “slash” and then hit the Enter key). Do so until you are at the top level. For example, if your URL is http://www.classroom.com/mayaquest, try removing the "/mayaquest" from the end of the URL.
If you still have trouble finding a site, try using a search engine to find the latest URL.

If I get "403 Forbidden," what should I do?
If you get this page, that means you may have tried to access a part of the site that was password protected. Return to the homepage of the site and enter your password at the proper point. You should be able to get into the page using your password.