Welcome to Sir George's Tech Facts.
Yup, here ya git just the facts and reasons behind them.
For Green Gable Village customers and dealers.
 

• Why do we see best viewed 800 x 600 16 bit Color ?
  Click here is how you set your screen settings 
  Because the Internet has a standard for it's normal operations. One is viewable settings based on the majority of computer users screen settings. Which is 800 x 600 16 Bit Color. So web designers base there finished products based on these settings so the majority of people do see the site as it is intended to be seen. Sites like this one are not a simple text based site and require frames, tables and special formats. Because of this the site is laid out in 800 x 600 16 bit format and best if viewed as such. In fact most sites on the internet are suppose to be viewed that way. My advise is you try it if you do not have your setting set as such. Click here is how you set your screen settings to 800 x 600 16 bit color.
    

• Viewing pictures in Auction area
  Click Here to see how to change picture auto resizing settings.
  The problem now days is dial-up verses DSL. and cable. The question a site designer has to ask himself when laying out a page is does the ones viewing it have DSL or Dial-up ? And base the design off that. I laid the site out using dial-up. This lets me know what a dial-up user has to deal with on load time of a picture page. Being a majority of users are using dial-up pages where laid out with 20 thumbnails linked to larger pictures incase you want to see something better. Most users are unaware of the new settings in Internet Explorer 6x for Auto Resizing of images. Again this has an adverse effect on site designers as it may change the way a designer wants you to see a picture. Example being you click on a larger picture link and it opens in a new window. Funny thing is it is not much larger. That is the new Auto Resize setting in Internet Explorer. Turn it off and you will see things as they are meant to be seen by the site designer not the way Bill Gates thinks you need to see them. Yes he tends to upset designers by not thinking when he designs software, Chain reaction. Now we have to teach users how to use his software... So again we have to change a setting so you can see sites as they where meant to be seen as the designer expects you to see them The old way, " As it is suppose to be " Not as a software designer thinks it should be. Click Here to see how to change picture auto resizing settings.
   

• Empty Temporary Internet Files Folder when browsers closed
  Another software design option that has the wrong default settings. By setting this option as it should of been as a default your browser it will self clean all temporary internet files. Thus saving you space and unwanted garbage on your systems. This also aids in Virus prevention as I have found many viruses are started from these files. Click here to see how to set Empty Temporary Internet Files Folder when browsers closed

• Screen settings to 800 x 600 16 bit color
  1. Click on Start Menu
  2. Click on Settings
  3. Click on Control Panel
  4. Double Click on Display Icon
  5. Now you should have Display Settings in front of you.
  6. Click on the Settings tab.
  7. Color should read High Color 16 Bit { or higher }
  8. Screen Area should read 800 x 600
  9. Click apply and it will prompt you with a notice to wait 15 sec if you can not see anything right. But if you can you will be prompted to save settings. Click save and then close everything out and go to any site and see it as it was meant to be viewed.
  
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• Picture Auto Resizing Settings.
  1. Click on Start Menu
  2. Click on Settings
  3. Click on Control Panel
  4. Double Click on Internet Options Icon
  5. Now you should have Internet Properties in front of you.
  6. Click on the Advanced tab.
  7. Scroll down till you see Multimedia
  8. Uncheck the box Enable Automatic Image Resizing
  9. Click on Apply and then close everything out go to the site and see it as the site designer wants you to see it.
  
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• Empty Temporary Internet Files
  1. Click on Start Menu
  2. Click on Settings
  3. Click on Control Panel
  4. Double Click on Internet Options Icon
  5. Now you should have Internet Properties in front of you.
  6. Click on the Advanced tab.
  7. Scroll down till you see Security
  8. Check the box Empty Temporary Internet Files Folder when browsers closed
  9. Click on Apply and then when you close your browser it will self clean all temporary internet files. This also aids in Virus prevention as I have found many viruses are started from these files.
  
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