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Search This Site
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Google Site Search
The Google Site Search tool will search this site when the button next to Search this site is selected:
Hints on Viewing This Site
Any Current Browser Works
Content on this site is designed to work with any current browser. Support for older browsers is deprecated.
Valid Site Coding
All pages have been checked and found to be valid 1.0 Transitional and valid CSS using W3C’s validator services:
and work best when viewed with a modern browser that conforms to Web standards but will degrade gracefully so that content is available to you if you are using older browsers.
Please be aware that Websites display differently in different browsers. Current versions of Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer will work best.
External Links Open New Windows
Links pointing to an address external to this site will open a separate window using Javascript. These are not pop-up windows. Simply close the new window to return to this site.
Different Browsers—Different Experiences
Please be aware that pages view differently in different browsers. This site has been designed using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1 and CSS2) for layout and works best when the browser conforms to Web standards.
Firefox Recommended
Firefox most closely follows these standards at the time of the site design. Internet Explorer 6 does not follow a number of these recommendations, although these standards are more closely followed by Internet Explorer 7. Internet Explorer 8 is even more compliant and is strongly recommended. Other browsers also vary in their conformation to standards.
Update to Internet Explorer 8 Recommended
It is strongly recommended that Windows users update their Internet Explorer to version 8 using Windows Update or Microsoft Update if is available to your version of Windows. (If you are using an older version of Windows you are at significant risk when using the Internet because security vulnerabilities are no longer being addressed by Microsoft.)
While these standards are not infallible, they help in ensuring that changes in technology do not degrade your experience on this site and avoid restricting the viewer to one browser because of proprietary markup.
Changing Fonts Sizes & Colours
This site design is created with browser sizing at 1024x768 and care has been taken to choose colours that are cross-platform compatible. Font sizes are specified in ems to give the view the greatest flexibility (rather than fixed in points, a static print medium that is converted into pixels differently by different browsers).
Current browsers (Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Internet Explorer) offer a great deal of flexibility in changing these settings to suit your needs and preferences. I would suggest altering text size or colour settings to enhance your experience on this (and other) sites if you have special requirements.
Text May Be Enlarged/Reduced
Text sizes may be increased/decreased in modern browsers if you have difficulty viewing the default sizes or if the default sizing doesn't work for you. This function varies by browser but is usually located in the View menu:
- Internet Explorer: View > Text Size.
- Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox: View > Text Zoom.
- Opera: View > Zoom.
- Safari: View > Make Text Bigger / Make Text Smaller.
- Maxthon: View > Zoom Page.
- Netscape 4: View > Increase Text / Decrease Text.
Internet Explorer 8 users with the menu turned off (default setting) use the Page menu (grouped with the home icon) to change these settings.
Extreme Increase May Create Problems
Note: extreme increases in size may create problems with the page layout. Images do not resize and there are limits to how much room there is on the menu for the increase in text sizes.
However, Firefox version 3 has introduced a new zoom feature that increases both graphics and text making this effect less noticeable. Be aware that enlarging graphics tends to make them appear less crisp.
If you continually have difficulty viewing text and images on your computer, you can either purchase a larger monitor (they are much more reasonably-priced) or a program like ZoomText.
Customizing Colour Settings
Issues With Contrast
Some viewers may find that there is insufficient contrast for comfortable viewing. This can be altered within your browser.
Changing Browser Settings
If you are having difficulty viewing this site, please change the sizing of the fonts (see resizing text above) or change your browser's default settings to view the page with fonts and colours that work for you:
- Firefox: Tools > Options and select Fonts & Colors on the Content tab.
- Internet Explorer 8: look on the Command menu for Tools > Internet Options and click on the buttons in the Appearance category on the General tab.
- Internet Explorer 7: Tools > Internet Options and click on the buttons in the Appearance category on the General tab.
- Opera: Tools > Preferences and select the Web pages tab.
- Safari: Edit > Preferences and select Fonts in the Appearance category (there are no settings for colour, although you can specify a personal style sheet).
- Internet Explorer 6/Maxthon: Tools > Internet Options and click on the Accessibility button.
- Netscape/Mozilla: Edit > Preferences and select Colors in the Appearance category.
Additional settings may be found under Advanced, Accessibility or elsewhere, depending upon the browser you are using. Your browser's help menu will give you more information about how to use these features effectively.
Older Browsers May Not Display Correctly
Unfortunately, some content on this site may not display properly in older browsers that do not recognize or correctly interpret style sheets. Since style sheets are used both for layout and esthetics, this will necessarily degrade your user experience when viewing this site with an older browser. This problem should affect less than 5 percent of the browsers currently in use.
Content should be visible, but may be portrayed in your browser's default fonts and may be placed incorrectly. There may also be unintended side effects like visible borders around linked images (a result of changing Web standards). This affects primarily Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 4 and their earlier versions.
To view this site properly, you may wish to upgrade to a newer browser. Current versions of Firefox, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer will work best.
PDF Documents
Several documents on this Website are labelled as PDF usually followed by a number. You will need the free Adobe® Reader® to view and print PDF documents.
The number in brackets beside PDF documents refers to the size of the document and is provided for your convenience. For example, (PDF - 250k) refers to an Acrobat® document that is approximately 250 kilobytes in size.
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Updated October 14, 2009
