The Greater Fort Myers Chamber, Inc. has taken great care to ensure that our website works on all platforms, browsers and connection speeds. We do, however, utilize some newer technologies which may not be integrated into your system yet but will maximize the effectiveness of the material and special features contained within our pages. For your convenience we have made this information and these downloads available to you in this section.

Flash!
The FortMyers.org website requires Macromedia Flash. Macromedia Flash is the global standard for vector graphics and animation on the web with 98% of all web browsers already Flash compatible. The Macromedia Flash plug-in is a quick, FREE, easy download and self-installs. Click here to get Macromedia Flash.

Adobe Acrobat Reader
Downloads and documents detailed on FortMyers.org may require the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat is the internet standard for downloadable, printable forms and documents. Click here to install Acrobat Reader.

Cookies
A very small text file is placed on your hard drive by our servers. It is essentially your identification card, and cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. It is uniquely yours and can only be read by the FortMyers.org website. This cookie saves or remembers your settings and favorites as you use our website. You must have cookies enabled to use our website. To enable cookies follow the instructions below for the browser version you are using:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0+
Select "Internet Options" from the Tools menu.
Click on the "Privacy" tab.
Click the "Default" button (or manually slide the bar down to "Medium") under "Settings".
Click "OK".

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
Select "Internet Options" from the Tools menu.
Click on the "Security" tab.
Click the "Custom Level" button.
Scroll down to the "Cookies" section.
To enable:
Set "Allow cookies that are stored on your computer" to "Enable".
Set "Allow per-session cookies" to "Enable".
Click "OK".

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x
Select "Internet Options" from the View menu.
Click on the "Advanced" tab.
Scroll down to find "Cookies" within the "Security" section.
To enable:
Select "Always accept cookies".
Click "OK".

Netscape 7.1/Mozilla 5.0
Select "Preferences" from the Edit menu.
Click on the arrow next to "Privacy & Security" in the scrolling window to expand.
Under "Privacy & Security", select "Cookies."
Select "Enable all cookies".
Click "OK".

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Printing Pages
If you are wondering why you can't just click the print command and get the web page or other internet page you're looking at to print out properly, you're not alone. Too often pages get cut off at the margin so the ends of lines are missing or pictures are cut off, or blanks appear where words or images should be. This is pretty frustrating because you can see the words right there on the screen; they're there, but when you print them out they're gone. Never fear, we a have a few how to tips and tricks for you to get those internet pages to print out nice, neat and complete.

• First Click on Print Preview
  Before you print out a page, go to your browser menu (usually the file menu) and click on print preview. This will bring up images of the web pages as they will appear on a print out. If they look good, all you should have to do is click the print command, usually also found in the browser menu file window, and they will print out as shown. Note, however, that once in a great while the print preview will not be accurate, and the print out will not match the preview. If this is the case, the following two tips may be of assistance.

• Print in Landscape Instead of Portrait
  If the print preview shows pages cut off on the margin, and you don't have access to printer friendly or pdf versions, you can print the pages out in landscape instead of portrait format. If you don't know already, landscape prints left to right across the longest dimension of the page (as in a landscape painting) and portrait prints out the normal way (as in a portrait painting). When you print in landscape, you are pretty much guaranteed that nothing will get cut off at the margins. In most browsers, you go to the file menu, click on 'page setup', and in the page setup window click check the landscape box before you do your print out.

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