[WEB4LIB] Hi, (2 monitor question)

[Stephen, Mathew]

	Windows 98 allows you to have two separate computer monitors hooked
up to the same computer.  You will also need to put in another video card.
If your not using Windows 98 (I have to use NT at work), then you may have
troubles.  
	What I would suggest as an alternative, and what I'm planning on
doing myself, is getting another computer, which can be an older computer,
and using it to check the page.  My second computer will be a 'dual boot'
machine (using software such as Partition Magic).  I will  install several
different operating systems such as Windows 95, Windows 98, NT, Linux, etc..
I will also be putting different versions of browsers on the machine.  For
example IE 4 and IE 5.  They say you should design your website so that it
will be compatible with at least the last two generations of browsers.  Then
I should be able to test the new site to see how compatible it will be with
various browsers and operating systems.  
	I can also use the second computer to dial in to check the proxy
software (Ezproxy) to make sure that our protected materials such as
Journals and Databases will work for students calling in off campus.  
			Mathew Stephen
			Mississippi State University

-----Original Message-----
From: Yvonne Reynolds [mailto:Reynolds at nbict.nbi.ac.za]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 8:18 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Hi,


Hi,
Does anyone have  2 monitors attached to the computer they use to design
their web site?   I am sure I have heard of this before and I would like to
set up 2 with differing cards and screen resolutions so I can see at a
glance what pages will look like on differing monitors.  Our IT Dept seem
horrified by this.

Has anyone tried this?   What particular problems are there or obstacles to
be overcome?

TIA
Yvonne

PS earlier today I posted a query relating to an image map which was
breaking up.  I solved it by recreating the map-  it now works  - must have
become corrupted.

Yvonne Reynolds
Web site Manager/ Librarian
National Botanical Institute
Kirstenbosch.
P/Bag x 7, Claremont 7735, South Africa
Tel +27 21 762 1166
Fax +27 762 0646
email: reynolds at nbict.nbi.ac.za
http://www.nbi.ac.za