Messed Up Web Page?

 

Text and/or photos overlap?  Things are fragmented?  Just Messed Up in general? 

 

Try these two things first:

     1.  At the top of this window is a row of menu items ("File," "Edit," etc.).  Under "View" is "Reload," "Refresh," or something similar.  With the messed up page showing, click on it to force your computer to go to the web site and retrieve the page again.  Sometimes the computer remembers what the page was last time you looked and it assumes nothing has changed.  But sometimes things have changed and the old page is out of date.  Reload or Refresh will bring it up to date.

 

     2.  If there is no change after step 1, your page is up to date but the font size may be too large, leading to overlaps.  Go back to that "View" menu at the top of the monitor.  You can easily reduce the font size; exactly how depends on the web browser you use.  Here are the methods of three commonly used web browsers.  If you have a fourth browser and can't find something one of those below, send me an e-mail and we'll work on it together.

     Internet Explorer has "Text Size" and then words like "Smaller" and "Smallest."  Experiment with these small sizes. 

     Netscape has "Text Size" and then "100%," "90%," "75%," etc.  Try 90% and 75%. 

     Mozilla Firefox has "Text Size" and "Increase" and "Decrease."  Try Decrease. 

You can't break anything by trying these things.  You can always undo what you do.

     In making a web page, I specify specific, numerical font sizes (like 12 pt.) but by the time the instructions reach your computer they have been translated into rather vague statements like "small" or "large."  The browser you use selects a font size it thinks is meant.  You may have to convince it otherwise by fussing with "text size."

 

     Still messed up?  Write Phil at prinard@losalamos.com and we'll look for another solution.  Please give your brand of computer (PC or Mac) and your web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, whatever).  Exorcism has not been found to work as well as a swift kick in the keyboard.