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Thanks again for your subscription to DC Practice Market. We'd like to take a few moments to give you a few website guidelines to make using DC Practice Market as easy as possible.

Printer Friendly Format When you open an article or a newsletter, you will see the "Printer Friendly Format" icon at the top and bottom of the page. Do not print anything from this website without selecting the "Printer Friendly Format" icon first. Try to print anything without selecting the "Printer Friendly Format" icon and it will print everything on that page; the banner, the navigation bars, everything. Print without selecting the "Printer Friendly Format" icon and your office personalization information will not print at the bottom of the articles or the newsletter. You live and die by the "Printer Friendly Format" icon.

Browsers You can only be logged in to DC Practice Market from one computer and on one browser at a time. You can have numerous windows or tabs open in the browser at the same time, but only one browser at a time. That means you can't be logged in on Internet Explorer and log in on Firefox at the same time. If you do, you will be automatically locked out for 24 hours. If this happens, I can unlock you sooner but you'll have to call me. My office phone number is 770-487-5612.

Featured Editorials The Featured Editorials on the Public and Member pages are available for subscribers and non-subscribers alike.

Appearance The articles and the newsletter are written in html. As I understand it, if you open an article or the newsletter and it prints out too small or too big, the answer is likely changing your browser settings for Font Size. Now, a word of caution. Before changing the settings on your browser, I want you to consider using another browser (if you don't have another one, there are many you can download for free, such as FireFox, Camino, etc.). Most people use Internet Explorer because it comes with Windows. This is unfortunate for two reasons. One, there are other, better programs available that run faster and are free (I use FireFox and love it). Two, IE causes problems with our site. I can't say that everyone who uses IE has problems but I can say that everyone who has problems is using IE. Simply switching to FireFox has solved 99.9% of the problems we deal with on a regular basis.

Sometimes offices will have their browser set up a specific way to work with an electronic billing program or some other essential program. We don't want to mess with that so using another browser that you only use for DC Practice Market may be the best approach. Anyway all browsers are different so if you can't find one that prints out the articles correctly, you'll have to go into your alternate browser's Preferences file and find the settings for Font Size or Page Setup to mess with the margins. Some browsers will have a specific size you can set, others will have a setting for "never use fonts smaller than…" Some browsers will have a Scale setting under Page Setup. If your articles are printing too big or too small, changing the Scale settings may be the ticket. Believe me, if all browsers were the same, life would be easier for all of us who use html code.

Emailing Articles & Newsletters You can send your patients any of our articles or newsletters via email. There are a couple of ways to do so. After you have selected your article or newsletter you want to send, you're going to click on the "Printer Friendly Format" icon. When the page opens, rather than print it, you want to do a "Save As" (sometimes called "Save Page As") and select "Web Page, HRML only". This will save the article as a document that you can email as an attachment. Another way to save an article or newsletter is to save it as a pdf file (usually found as an option under the Print command). If your computer doesn't have a pdf writer already, there are tons of them out there, just do a Google search on pdf writer" and you'll find thousands to choose from. Again, this will save the article as a document you can email as an attachment.

Ongoing Changes DC Practice Market is an evolving website. While we will always strive to make it as easy to use as possible, we will, undoubtedly, be changing the appearance and functionality of the site as additional functions and features are incorporated. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.