This page was originally designed to look good on Netscape 3.0 set for 14 pt. Geneva font. That was a long time ago, back in the days when the internet was young, and screens were tiny and there was no such thing as Internet Explorer (it was great). I've done my best to over the years to weed out bad design, (does anybody remember black backgrounds with red text?) , but I haven't done that good a job. The site could use a major design overhaul, but I simply don't have the time. HTML 4.0? Dream on.

As of March 2003, I'm going to work on trying to get this site to look good on Safari.

I have started a program of eliminating GIF files in favor of either PNG or JPEG files. I'll probably never finish, but expect the images to look a little better as time goes by.

I apologize for not having been able to find a font that works. I started with the certain knowledge that "Times" looks horrid on screen. Unfortunately, the Font Grail (a non-Microsoft, cross-platform, sans serif, screen font) has remained elusive. The quest has been fraught with peril (Trebuchet), and false hope (Charcoal). So at this point, things are so messy that I've got virtually no idea what other people might be getting in the way of fontage. If anyone has a font suggestion, I'd appreciate it. I'm thinking of going to (Lucida, Myriad, Gadget, Trebuchet, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans serif), but it would take me a long time to convert, even with the Cascading Style Sheets. Yeah, I found out what those where. Nice idea, pain in the ass to change over to them on already existing pages.

I have looked at this page on a couple of Wintel machines running various strains of Windows. They colors looked very different on each machine. So basically, I've got no idea what you might be seeing on your screen, although Wintel monitors are typically darker than Mac.

This would be much easier if you people would all just buy Macs.

RMR

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