Welcome to the 2006 Wagner Family Christmas Letter!
Here are a few helpful hints to help you get the most out of your experience.
Navigation
The menu at left will help you to know where you are and (dare I say it?) skip around. A printable, text-only version (don‘t do it!) as well as a photo gallery are also available at the bottom of the menu. But the best way to experience the letter is, yes, to actually read each page. Use the previous/next buttons at the bottom. A good, minimum screen resolution is 1024 x 768. If you have no idea what that means, don‘t worry, you will not be harmed in any way. Just expect to do some scrolling. (Scrolling is a technical term which comes from the German skroehl meaning “to do something unpleasant.”)
Slideshows
Each page has a Flash slideshow – some are short, some are long. You will need the latest Flash player in your browser to see them. If you don‘t see a slideshow at the top of the page, it means that you either don‘t have the player installed or you have done something unpleasant. (Your browser should prompt you to download and install the player if you need it.) You can navigate the images using the buttons at the bottom right of the slideshow window. Click on the slideshow to open a larger version of the current image (unless you‘re using a resolution smaller than 1024 x 768 (see above), in which case clicking on the slideshow may turn your computer into an electron microscope). The slideshow images are not terribly huge, by the standard of the day, but if you are on a dial-up connection, you might want to open up the first page now and then come back again around Easter.
Links
Before you start, make sure you can see the popups – there are quite a few throughout and, in my opinion, they probably make the letter worth reading. Just float your mouse cursor (that would be pointy little arrow on your screen, so named from the expletives of computer users trying to find it on screens larger than 1024 x 768) over this link. If you see the popup window, you’re all set. If not, see if you have a browser warning – usually a yellow bar at the top of this page – telling you that your browser is restricting access to potentially harmful content. While it‘s true that the content of these letters has been known to be seriously damaging to preconceived notions, prejudices, superstitions, and stereotypes, your browser is not smart enough to know that, and I can personally guarantee you that no harm will come to your computer as a result of enabling these popups. Click the yellow bar and accept the active content. Afterwords, if you still can’t see the popup window, contact your local computer dealer and purchase a new computer. Donate your old one to your local library – they don’t need popups.
Links to external web pages look like this. These should open up a new browser window (so you don‘t lose your place). Subsequent external links will generally open up in that same window, so if you hide it, you may find yourself clicking external links to death wondering why nothing is happening. In that case you should return here and read this part again, where you will be told to unhide the window that you previously hid from yourself.
That‘s it. You‘re ready to begin. Enjoy. |
