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You may have noticed a bit of a theme running through the latter part of this chapter and that is awareness and testing. So here is a little summary of things that it is pretty important that you try before you consider your website to be fully ready for the general public. Test your website using as many different combinations of the following as possible, obviously the browser, what version of the browser, what brand? Test in both Netscape and Internet Explorer. Go back as far as version 3 and also test in the latest versions obviously. Test it on different operating systems, test it on Windows, test to see what it looks like on a Macintosh. See if you can get a hold of a machine that's running Linux or even OS2. Very important, most people don't even bother with this. See how quickly your web page loads using a 28.8 k modem because there's a huge number of people that are still using these. Change the screen resolution; change the color resolution of your monitor, go all the way down to 640 by 480, it doesn't matter if you just simply resize your browser window down to quite a small size. See if you can try and make your web page look decent enough even when there is only 256 colors available. Interestingly enough that also make it download faster, again importantly setup your browser using different font faces and sizes. Try some Serif fonts, some San Serif fonts, try some unusual fonts and see if your web page still displays in a reasonable way. Change the font sizes, again change all of these things and see if it looks okay and change the windows size, see if it’s looks okay when the windows are not maximized. When they’re very tall and narrow or when they’re short and wide. See if it still looks okay in those sorts of configurations. Turn your images off in the browser, reload your page, see if its looks okay All of these things are important to try. So how does one test for those things if you've got only got one computer, using one operating system? Some of those things require a number of different computers. Well one way to do it is to publish your website to some sort of temporary location on the Internet and then just go to an Internet café or go around to your friends place or go to a different computer on your corporate intranet and pull up your website on those computers. It's worth the extra time and it's also the mark of a professional web developer.