Help for Windows Users

This website has been tested and works on only one version of Internet Explorer: Internet Explorer 6, which comes with Windows XP. You would do a favor for yourself and every web designer, if you downloaded and used another browser.

If you use a browser other than Internet Explorer, you will get much less spyware. Using another browser will help web designers because it is hard to get web pages to work with Internet Explorer. This is because Internet Explorer is flawed in its design. This makes designing websites that work in Internet Explorer plus all other browsers requires 2x the work. You can have as many browsers on your machine as you want and they won't interfere with each other, so you can use the free Firefox for most browsing and use Internet Explorer for those few websites that are broken.

Try the latest version of the Mozilla's always free Firefox, Mozilla's always free Seamonkey, free Opera, or Apple's free Safari. You probably have the free Adobe Reader 5.0 or higher (released in May 2001) that came with your computer, which should be fine for viewing the PDFs on this website.

My PDFs also display fine in the free Foxit Reader. Foxit Reader is a much simpler viewer that is faster to use and is a much smaller download. It is free for personal use.

Firefox and Seamonkey are free and open source so you can be sure it has no viruses or spyware.

Free Adobe Reader and free Flash Player are done by a very well known, reputable company and will not contain any viruses or spyware. To see if you have Adobe Reader installed, check under the Start menu and look for a sub menu labelled Adobe or an icon that says Adobe Reader. You may have to click on little black arrows to expand your Start menu to show it. Another way to tell if you have Adobe Reader installed, is to enter about:plugins in your web browser address bar and then hit enter and if you scroll down you will see the words Adobe Reader if it is installed. You can also see if it is installed by clicking on one of my linked files that ends in .pdf and if you see text rather than some garbled computer code, then you have it installed. To see the version number of Adobe Reader, locate it in the start menu, click on it and then choose about from the help menu and you should see the version number.

This software is tested and supported on Windows as well as other systems and shouldn't create any problems for you on your computer other than the problems and limitations normally associated with Windows. I do not recommend upgrading on my account if you have a version 5 or higher of Adobe Reader.

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