From The Technical Editor
From The Technical Editor
Viewing articles and features requiring Microsoft PowerPoint
Many of our articles require the Microsoft PowerPoint application. If you do not have it installed on your computer (PowerPoint is one of the Microsoft Office applications), you can download and then install a free PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft here:
Refresh The Trumpet Often
The Trumpet gets updated at random times, as new articles and breaking news are added. Your Browser MAY NOT automatically check to see if The Trumpet has changed when you open our page again. It will just display the last version it saved for you on your computer. IT WILL RELOAD if you press the F5 key at the top of your keyboard or click your Refresh/Reload button in your browser! Do that as a matter of habit.
AOL users: Your AOL browser may not refresh Trumpet pages for a day or two after we have updated the pages. We know of no solution, except to use another browser (like Microsoft Internet Explorer).
Hyperlinks
All blue and underlined text, which change color when you place your mouse cursor over it, is a hyperlink (when you click it, a new page or e-mail form opens). Pictures and icons that have a blue border around them are also hyperlinks.
How Hyperlinked Pages Open
Most hyperlinked pages you see in The Trumpet open in the same browser "window" that you were viewing The Trumpet in and clicking this button (at the bottom of the linked-to page):
returns you to The Trumpet. This is deliberately done for your convenience, to avoid you having to close separate, new windows all the time as you navigate around our web site. However, we have set some hyperlinked pages to open in new windows because they are either non-Trumpet published pages, or they are pages published by The Trumpet that you may wish to keep open for later viewing after you've finished with The Trumpet - in this case, you have to close those windows separately when you are through - the browser window displaying The Trumpet will still be available to you.
Browser
Compatibility
The Trumpet is published using Microsoft® FrontPage and is compatible with the Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, and AOL browsers. Other browsers may not display this page properly. Java Script must be enabled to view photo albums and your browser must support frames.
Computer Virus information
Click this: Virus Help.
General
help:
Our web pages are designed for viewing on a computer monitor whose screen size is set to between 800 X 600 and 1028 X 680 resolution. If yours is set above 1028 X 680, you may see the page background begin to repeat - this is normal.
The main page should open in about 300 to 400 seconds if you have a good 28.8 kbps dial-up connection. If you have a broadband (cable or DSL) connection, the page will open much faster.
If you first see the pictures "fuzzy," or they open slowly from the top down, be patient. They will clear up and become sharp as your browser continues to download details of the pictures.
If the page "looks funny," you may be using an older or incompatible browser.
Help for the “pictures not opening”
problem:
Be patient. There are a lot of pictures and it takes time to download them, especially if you have a slower connection to the Internet.
You may have to refresh your browser. That means pressing the F5 function key on your keyboard, or clicking the “Refresh” or “Reload” button in your browser, which looks like one of these:
Clicking this button causes your browser to download the page from scratch and may help. We have also noticed that “Refreshing” two or three times may be necessary.
If
neither of these steps help, you can try running Disc Cleanup. This will clean your Temporary Internet Files, and allow
you to reload the page from scratch. Disc
Cleanup comes with virtually every computer sold.
To run Disc Cleanup, close The Trumpet page, and any other programs you have running. Disc Cleanup can be found by clicking Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools; there you should see Disc Cleanup. Click it and follow the easy step-by-step instructions.
Reunion Pictures won't work:
You must have Java enabled in your browser. To do this in Internet Explorer 5.X:
Open your Internet Explorer browser.
Click Tools. In the drop down menu, click Internet Options.
In the Internet Options window, click the Advanced tab.
Scroll to the Microsoft VM area:
Make sure that the box to the left of "JIT compiler for virtual machine enabled (requires restart)" is checked, as illustrated above. If it isn't, click in the box to check it.
Click the OK button at the bottom of the Internet Options window.
Close your Internet Explorer browser and all other open applications. Then restart your computer.
Help for Microsoft Internet Explorer Message: INTERNET EXPLORER SCRIPT ERROR, "Do you want to continue running Scripts on this page?"
Open your Internet Explorer browser. These instructions are for versions 5.XX and 6.XX. Version 4.XX may have slightly different button, etc. names. See above to find out what version you have.
Click Tools. In the drop down menu, click Internet Options.
In the Internet Options window, click the Advanced tab.
Scroll to the Browsing area.
Check the box to the left of "Disable script debugging" if it is unchecked.
Uncheck the box to the left of "Display a notification about every script error" if it is checked.
Click the OK button at the bottom of the Internet Options window.
Close your Internet Explorer browser.
Emailing Photos
When sending photos by email, do you stop to think about the file size of your photos? If not, you should. Just this past week I received photos from three different sources, whose file sizes were in the Megabytes. One contained two photos that were each one Megabyte in size, for a total of two Megabytes. Another email contained photos that totaled a whopping eight Megabytes.
If the person you are sending the photos to has a high-speed connection, sending photos that are a Megabyte or more in size might only be a minor annoyance, as they will download in a minute or two. However if, like myself, the receiver of you photos only has a dial up connection it can take 10 minutes or more to download a one-Megabyte photo. It took me 20 minutes to download both of the one Megabyte photos. I never did download the email with the eight Megabytes of photos, as it would have taken almost one and a half hours to do so.
There is no need to email photos in high resolution, large file sizes unless you expect that your recipient will want to print them in photo quality. If all you expect them to do is look at them on their computer screens, then low resolution is just fine, and they won’t have sit there waiting for your email to download.
The photos in The Trumpet are only in the range of 60 K (Kilobytes) or less file size, with resolutions of 75 DPI (Dots per Inch). They look pretty good, don’t they? So why send a photo with a resolution of 10 times, or more than that actually needed.
Just one other thing you might wish to consider is the format of your photos. Whether or not you expect the recipient of you photos to print them, or just look at them on their monitor, I suggest you send them in JPG or JPEG format.
Contact Us for Help
If the help topics above don't address your problem, you can get personalized help from Ian Etheridge, the Technical Editor. Click the envelope icon below:
Updated 3/14/09.
