Well a discovery.

With Firefox if I decrease the font size to a rather tiny display, the page displays fine.
(Although it's a little too small for these old eyes)

I tried reducing the font size in Internet Explorer, but it didn't help the display. So for now I'll use Firefox and the tiny fonts to view Willum's page...unless anyone knows a better fix.

Larry

Another thing I forgot to point out.

Using Internet Explorer, I am unable to change the text size on Willum's site. (No problem on other sites). Thus it remains scrambled.

However,

With Firefox, I can reduce the text on his site to a very tiny size, so that the page displays correctly.

Weird...I got to get away from this for a bit, before it drives me up a wall

Larry



[This message has been edited by lahawk (edited 12-20-2005).]

Hi Larry.

Check and try the following. Make a note of the present settings you have incase you need to revert back to them.

Open Explorer and go to TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS
GENERAL TAB Click on COLORS, and make sure "USE WINDOWS COLORS" is checked, click OK.

Back to GENERAL TAB Click on FONTS, make sure:
LATIN BASED under Language Script is selected.
TIMES NEW ROMAN under Web Page Font is selected.
COURIER NEW under Plain Text Font is selected.
Click OK.

Back to GENERAL TAB Click on ACCESSIBILTY:
Make sure nothing is checked here, all should be unchecked.

ADVANCDED TAB, make sure you make a note of all that are checked in case you need to revert back to them. Click on Restore Defaults, click ok.

Then go to VIEW, and change text size to Medium.

Oh! And check your monitor setting, making sure you are using a common display mode. 800x600 or 768x1024 etc.

If all these are tried, and you still have the problem. Reboot, and if still having the problem, then as you said, the Mystery Continues...

Anthony

Larry, I just wandered all over Bill's website and no problems for me and my gear.
Bebop

Over the past couple of days, I have carried out a number of tests of my website, using some of the more popular internet browsers. The programs I tested were :
Internet Explorer v5
Internet Explorer v6
Mozilla Firefox v1.5
Opera v8.51
Netscape v8.0.4

The programs were tested using Windows XP with SP2 and all recent updates from Microsoft. The tests were carried out on three different PCs, including a laptop. All browsers were checked at the following commonly used screen resolutions :

800 x 600 : 1024 x 768 : 1280 x 1024

None of my graphics cards allow me to use the more 'exotic' higher resolutions

Apart from a minor problem with the Scrolling Java applet at the top of the home page, when using Mozilla Firefox, and Netscape not playing the background music files, I found no other defects.

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Willum

one possible factor, but obviously not in Larry's case, after all posting that it works on your computer hardly tells us anything groundbreakingly new - that most pcs display most web pages ok

I informed Larry that I had several other people check out my website and no problems were reported so they were not just checked on my PCs

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Willum

Hi Willum,

I use Netscape as a browser and noticed that your music doesn't come up. Why is that?

I don't know Norman, but I'm in the process of investigating this problem

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Willum

Anthony,

I tried your suggestion..step by step, with no improvement. Thanks anyway.

Using Internet Explorer 6, Windows XP SP2
I cannot change the text size on Willum's page. I'd be interested if anyone can change the text size on his site, using IE6.
(I can change the text size on most other sites)

As mentioned above, I can change the text size with Firefox, but to view a normal display I have to reduce the text size to such a small size, I can hardly see it.

I think Alec is correct. What works on one computer, may not work on another. Willum's page may display fine on 99 out of 100 setups. I could be that 1 in a 100 who's display is incompatable with Willum's website.

I'll try a few other options, before I throw in the towel.

Larry