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Wayne's Word page widths are set at 75% or 85% which leaves a vacant space in the left and right margins of large, high resolution monitors; however, the text fits perfectly (without horizontal scrolling) with classroom data (LCD) projectors at Palomar College and laptop computers set at 1024 x 768 resolution. My latest web pages have text and large images (910 pixels wide) without double and triple columns. They were all created in html code with Java-based, multi-platform Arachnophilia. My page width dimensions project very well in large lecture rooms and auditoriums. That is why I originally set it this way. In a presentation for the Southern California Horticultural Society hosted by the Huntington Botanical Garden my Wayne's Word pages (The Sex Life Of Figs) projected perfectly on a large screen in an auditorium. Although my images are 72 dpi jpegs, their large size (910 pixels wide) look very good even when magnified. The display size on your monitor can easily be changed with following key strokes: PCs Type Control + and MACs Type Command (⌘) +

I have received hundreds of requests from various organizations, agencies and individuals to use photos and information from Wayne's Word on their web sites and in published newsletters, compact discs, books, etc. All of the articles and 99.9% of all the photos and illustrations in Wayne's Word are copyright protected and may not be used in other on-line, CD or printed publications without our expressed written permission. This includes the display of our images and illustrations in their original form, or electronically altered form, on other websites. For anyone interested in this material, you may place hyperlinks (but no frames) to anchor tags on Wayne's Word pages from your websites. Please refer to waynesword.net for information on high resolution .tif images available for publications.

I have received a number of suggestions & friendly criticisms about my excessive use of tables and antiquated html code. All of my pages were coded by hand using the html text editor Arachnophilia. I must say that I am more concerned with content than fancy web pages. By content I am referring to clear, crisp photo images and accurate, well-researched, peer reviewed text. Of course, I want my pages to be very readable on various devices. I am also very appreciative of corrective feedback on my pages. Wayne's Word contains a large range of complex biological topics that I have tried to simplify and yet maintain accuracy. It is imperative to make certain errors are not perpetuated on the Internet. One case in point is the "coconut pearl," a so-called rare "gem" that has appeared in many references and even scholarly textbooks for decades. In 2005 I exposed this as a fraud. Authority on Malaysian flora, Dr. J.F. Veldkamp of the National Herbarium, the Netherlands, came to the same conclusion in 2008. Please refer to following link.

In a diverse natural history website like Wayne's Word, it is imperative to make the topics interesting, scientifically accurate and well-researched. As stated above, for complex subjects, peer review from experts in their field is also valuable. Oversimplification can sometimes lead to errors, especially when the explanation has numerous exceptions. A good example is the interrelationship between figs (Ficus) and their symbiotic pollinator wasps. With over 800 species of figs, each with one or more symbiotic wasp species, there are substantial variations in the actual pollination mechanisms depending on the species. See Wayne's Word page on Fig Pollination.

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