HELLO AND WELCOME TO trizzle.net We hope you are here out of curiosity and are not having trouble with our site. But, if you are having trouble maybe this will help.     A little about our site: We use JavaScript:   Don't worry JavaScript is harmless, but very useful.    We collect pictures from many sources as explained on our copyrights  page. We try to find the very best of what we display. The images are not  chopped, clipped or reconfigured  to make them fit into our pages. However in our daily images, we resize them to fit into your browser window. A photo that is 800x600 pixels is shrunk to fit inside a browser window that is 640x480 and  a 1024x768 photo is shrunk to fit both 640x480 and 800x600.... and so on. An image is never enlarged. (to find what resolution your browser is,  look at the table below under current resolution). By clicking here you can see a demo of this. Place your cursor over the images when they load, or rather image. Both windows are displaying exactly the same photo. This is done with the use of JavaScript. Some may know that we can resize by just telling the browser that the image is such a height and such a width....but then we would have to decide for what browser window we resize for...JavaScript does that automatically and everyone gets to see all the picture without scrolling. If you clicked on "see a demo" and the a small popup window did not appear, with the image resized, then your browser is not supporting JavaScript 1.2 or has become corrupt  By looking at the table below you can see what version of JavaScript your browser will support. If the table is blank or for a thorough testing we recommend you go to BROWSER TUNE. It will guide you step by step on all your browser functions and show you how to correct any problems.    On our collection pages, or archives, we use JavaScript to generate pages within your computer. We confess we do this because we don't want to write 3 thousand pages to go with all those pictures. On the bright side it does make the viewing of images very much faster. By clicking on a thumbnail image:   Your browser generates a page (instead of downloading it) and then it will ask trizzle.net for the appropriate pictures. This enables most of  your connection time to be spent on getting the pictures you want to see and not page after page of delays waiting for the servers to answer for every request for a file. On that note we've found many sites with up to 100 files on each page that displays an image. We use recurring files on every title page so that all the files are downloaded once and not every time you click on a thumbnail. By clicking on the "Laughing Lion" thumbnail. you will see a demo of this. While we use many variations on this theme, if you were able to generate a page with the "Laughing Lion"  you should have no problems on any of our collections. If you could not generate a page  then your browser is not supporting JavaScript 1.2 or has become corrupt  By looking at the table below you can see what version of JavaScript your browser will support. For a thorough testing we recommend you go to BROWSER TUNE. It will guide you step by step on all your browser functions and show you how to correct any problems. Until this portion works there is no reason to continue, as the next part is heavy in JavaScript.     We use Java: It has pizzazz     Java is an interesting programming language. Yes programming. There is a good chance on your computer you have an application that is written in Java. Maybe an image viewer or a paint program, we do not program applications so we are not very versed on that use of java. In any case, those would be  an executable file and web pages cannot start an executable on your computer...you can download one and start it...it may be disguised as something else...but it cannot be started by a web site. We use Java to help bring our pages alive. Many of them are interactive...move your cursor over them. We feel they  make web pages more interesting without the long download times of Flash and other animation or graphics files. Any website that does use Java, uses applets. Applets are mini applications residing inside your browser that the applet gives instructions to on how it wants it to behave. Since there are more and more sites using Java there is no way Microsoft, Netscape and the others can have all these applets covered. So each applet tells the browser where to find a "class" file that the applet needs to run. If the browser cannot find the class file and it doesn't already exist inside your browser you see a blank box. Click here for a demo of a missing class file and click here to see the  working applet.   Java is the main source of navigation through trizzle.net. If you do not have java enabled you will not be able to see anything on our site. Since all operating systems are java enabled the choice of letting your browser use it is up to you. The default setting on Internet Explorer and Netscape is Java enabled. If it is not (see table below) it has been turned off by either security settings or configuration settings. If java is not enabled and you use I.E. 4 or above or Netscape  then Pure Performance will help you through setting it back up. If it is enabled and the following is blank then for reasons unknown to us your browser is not asking for the applet the right way (web sites are so finicky). Unfortunately Microsoft's IE4 has a great deal of trouble about the way it ask for class files, and seems to have more trouble with Microsoft's FrontPage hover buttons (go figure) which is what trizzle.net uses. Anyone still using IE4 should upgrade to 5.0 or better for a lot of reasons other than better Java control. There are however several solutions put forth by several web sites and if you click here a page will popup the runs the gamut of these solutions. If any button has writing on it then one solution has worked and it appears once IE4 gets one it keeps it thereafter. If you are using Netscape, their help is pretty thorough. You can get there here. Finally if you know your stuff you can try downloading the class files and placing them in your windows/java/class directory this solution was put forth by some.....we have our doubts. But all the class files used by trizzle.net are here.   If the boxes are still blank, and there is no problems with the  JavaScript,  you can still see what trizzle.net is about by clicking this link. No Java.     We like music: We hope you do too and we hope you like ours    All the title pages on trizzle.net have midi files in them. We think it makes web browsing more fun. The problem as we see it is music is a matter of taste. We have gotten pro and con about the music on our site, but the pro is about 10 to 1 for the con. In any event if you don't like the music please don't leave just adjust your volume setting. The other problem is midi files play differently on various software synthesizers. Ours are selected by using the default synthesizer that is loaded by windows 98. (to find out what you are using go to control panel/multimedia/midi). We test them for acceptance by changing to the Yamaha XG synthesizer. We feel these cover the most visitors. We also test our midis with the default Netscape plug-in and when they change to an unrecognizable level. We use JavaScript to play a different song for Netscape. Midi files are extremely small in comparison to MP3 and WAV files. Conversion of a 110Kb midi file to a wav made it 76Mb or 760 times larger (it was 16Mb as an MP3). This makes the download time negligible. Without a good plug-in though midi files sound like they are made from a child's' toy keyboard. So for the full enjoyment of trizzle.net (we really do put a lot of time into the selection of the songs) we recommend you download Yamaha's plug-in it's free for both Internet Explorer and Netscape.     We hate graphics compression: It's like buying new cars from junkyards  Ever received a picture in E-mail and it looked really crappy, all grainy with distortion on the edges? This is because someone somewhere at sometime right-clicked a picture and did a "save picture as" when they had graphics compression on (AOL users take note).  We use jpeg format images and the occasional animated gif. Jpeg offers varying levels of compression, at trizzle.net we set ours to give you the highest quality  and the smallest file sizes (faster downloading) without sacrificing details. However your browser may have built in compression that reduces the quality further, dramatically. In control panel/internet options/advanced tab there is a box labeled "smart image dithering" please uncheck it if it has a check mark, AOL users can go to My AOL/preferences/WWW/web graphics and uncheck the box labeled "use compressed graphics". Web pages will appear a lot cleaner and your images a lot sharper. We are not aware if Netscape does this.  The box on the table below should read 65,000 colors or more and trizzle.net is tweaked for 800x 600 browser windows and checked on 1024x740 windows. Larger screen resolutions will dwarf some of the pictures and smaller ones will see some folding on the title pages plus you'll do much scrolling, mainly right and left. If you need to increase you screen size...you can go to your desktop and right click anywhere...select the tab labeled settings. Windows should not allow you to set it any higher than your system will allow but do not click apply until you are sure of the new settings.     Thank you for visiting trizzle.net: We really do love e-mail, especially those that contain pictures  So don't be shy, drop us a line even to tell us off.....anything is better than being ignored. Just click on this banner any where you see it.   :  We hope this page helps you to enjoy your web surfing on all sites.                   trizzle