- Making text appear larger in your web browser
Sometimes text size on a Web page is fixed to preserve certain design features. In this case, you will be unable to use the View > Text Size menu option in Internet Explorer to change the size of the text. However, you can zoom in on the page using the browser zoom feature. Browser zoom magnifies text, and all the other elements on the page as well.
To zoom in or out on a Web page, click the magnifying glass icon at the bottom right corner of the Internet Explorer window or Press CTRL + PLUS SIGN (+) to zoom in, or CTRL + HYPHEN (-) to zoom out. CTRL + 0 returns the text back to its normal size.
Note: Internet Explorer shows the current zoom percentage in the bottom right of the status bar and opens the zoom options when you click the button to the right of the number.
- Full screen mode in Internet Explorer
Enter full screen mode in Internet Explorer to hide browser controls and see more of the web page. This is useful when you are using the site's own navigation controls and you don't need to access the browser controls.
Press F11 or click View > Full Screen to switch to full-screen mode. Press F11 again to return to the normal view.
- Print preview in Internet Explorer
Web pages sometimes use print style sheets to prevent certain page areas from printing. When printing a Web page, the print preview function lets you see exactly what you will be printing. The print preview window offers several additional benefits. For example, you can adjust the scale from "shrink to fit" to any percentage of the original size and adjust print margins.
To open a print preview window in Internet Explorer, select Print Preview from the File menu.
- Saving images for the web
There are several file formats to choose from when saving an image. Your requirements for the image determine which format you should use.
- JPEG is named after the “Joint Photographic Experts Group“ who created the standard and is best used when saving photographs since it can support a wide range of color.
- GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, is an image format that uses a palette of up to 256 individual colors, making it great for web graphics that don’t use a wide range of colors such as logos.
- PNG, or Portable Network Graphics, are similar to a GIF, except they support a much greater number of colors and can also support alpha transparency channels as opposed to single transparent pixels. Please note that IE6 does not fully support PNG-transparency.
It is best to use JPEGs when saving photographic images, GIFs when saving files that have a small range of color, such as logos (even if the background needs to be transparent) and PNGs can be used when your file has more than 256 colors and also needs alpha transparency such as files with 50% color screening or drop shadows.
- Entering PDF titles for better Google Search results
Make sure your online PDFs have meaningful titles in the PDF Properties dialog. Google Search uses the title in the Properties dialog as the result snippet title when returning PDFs.
To add title metadata to your PDF, right-click the PDF in Windows Explorer and select Properties. In the PDF tab, enter your title in the Title field. Also, make sure the Title metadata is applied to your source document. This way, each time you generate your PDF, the Title from your source document will be applied to the PDF as well. For example, if your PDF source is a Word doc, open the document in Microsoft Word, and from the File menu select Properties. In the Title field of the Summary tab of the Document Properties dialog, enter your document title metadata.