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WEB AUTHOR?Do you have your own web-site? If so, visitors to your site may be using one of several browsers and your web-page(s) may look very different
to them than the way you want it to. As a web-author you want to be aware of how your pages are going to look to the major browser programs because they all have
differences in they way they "read" HTML. With a portable computer, you can most likely install and run Netscape Navigator
3.x, Netscape Communicator 4.x and either Internet Explorer 3.x or Internet Explorer 4.x especially with the aid of a
portable disk. As you create/edit your web-pages, you can check their appearance with at least 3 browsers and make any
necessary adjustments. If you want to keep your system running at its current performance, keep IE 3.x as the active browser.
[You can install IE 4.x and then rename the "Program Files" folder and the "Windows" folders to something like "4Program
Files" and "4Windows". Then restore the old "Program Files" and "Windows" folders from the back-up you made before you
installed IE 4.0. You may have to create a mini "Windows\System" folder just to make your back-up program perform the restore
operation - Windows will generally tell you which files are "missing" as you proceed with the restore. Just copy/paste the
files Windows wants into your mini - "Windows\System" folder and NO others. Avoid any unnecessary cross-contamination between
the Windows folders for IE 3.x and IE 4.x. If at the end of the restore operation, a message occurs telling you that there is
trouble recreating the old registry, use the Emergency Recovery files on a Floppy Disk to restore your old files. Reboot to
get your pre-IE 4.0 configuration up and running. With 2 separate sets of "Program Files" and "Windows" Folders on your hard
drive, you are probably overloaded. Send the "4Program Files" folder and the "4Windows" folder off to portable disk(s). When
you want to "see" what your web-pages look like to IE 4.0 users, copy/paste the "4Program Files" and "4Windows" to the hard
drive, rename the existing "Program Files" and "Windows" folders to "3Program Files" and "3Windows" folder, then rename the
"4Program Files" and "4Windows" folders to "Program Files" and "Windows". Re-boot and you will have IE 4.0 running as a stand
alone browser and as the AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 browser if you use AOL. When you are through using IE 4.0, delete the
"Program Files" and "Windows" folders and then rename the "3Program Files" and "3Windows" folders to "Program Files" and
"Windows". Re-boot and your old configuration is back with IE 3.x. Be advised with all this folder moving and renaming,
Windows is going to warn you that you may be impacting your programs. Well, that's exactly what your intentions are. Also,
this shuffling of Browsers and their related files is a time consuming operation and must be done with
care.] |