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Viewing Your Document in a Variety of Browsers Before You Submit It

Before you submit, please view your pages in your browser, preferably many different types of browsers on lots of different platforms: Netscape 3.x on Unix, IE 5.0 on Macintosh, Netscape 4.6 on Windows, etc. Why is this important? Not all browsers are created equal. You don't want the especially nasty treat of a page looking gorgeous in Netscape 4.x and being unreadable in IE 5.0. Think this doesn't happen? Your nasty surprise is right around the corner, then.

Some things to watch for:

• Unclosed tags, missing quotation marks and forgotten line and paragraph breaks happen to everyone and can cause havoc with your Web page.
• It is unprofessional and can be quite embarrassing to discover mistakes once you're already on-line.

1. For Unix: From the command line, type in "netscape".
2. For Windows: Click on the "Netscape" icon.
3. From the File Menu at the top of the screen, click on "File"
4. Click on "Open File in Browser"
5. You may now click on the file you wish to open or type in the name, complete with the directory.