Set site preferences

Adjust the appearance of pages on this web site to your liking. The options affect page layout, links and text-style. (To undo changes, select another preference link rather than going Back.)

The current settings are: off-site links are opened in this window; text is 90% Georgia with 125% line spacing. Default settings are shown in italics.

Off-site links

this
window

one other
window

different
windows

Choose what happens when you click on links to other sites. Off-site links will currently replace the contents of this window. The links are always preceded by this small pointing icon: [off-site link icon]

These are some off-site links so that you can try out the options available: [off-site] Google, Yahoo! and AltaVista.

Font face

Verdana

Trebuchet

Arial

Helvetica

sans-serif

Georgia

Times

serif

The current typeface is Georgia. You can change the font of regular text to those listed below if it's installed on your computer.

Compare the sample text with the text below (which is in your browser's default font, probably Times) to check whether you have that font.

default: This is in the font of what you will see if you select a font that isn't installed on your computer. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Verdana: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Trebuchet: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Arial: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Helvetica: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

sans-serif: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Georgia: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Times: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

serif: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Font size

smaller
85%

larger
95%

This is example regular text in the smaller size smaller font size (85%). The font size of the small text links are relative to the size of regular text, as shown just by the links on the left.

The font size for regular text is currently 90%. Regular text includes everything but headings, navigational links and the page footer.

This is example regular text in the larger font size (95%). The font size of the small text links are relative to the size of regular text, as shown just by the links on the left.

Line height

shorter
120%

taller
130%

This is example regular text in the shorter line-height (120%). The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The line-height for regular text is currently 125%. Line-height describes the gap between lines of text in terms of the current text height; 100% = single spacing and 150% = 1.5 lines.

This is example regular text in the taller line-height (130%). The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.