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JavaScript Used

JavaScript is used to enhance this site. If disabled, your experience of this site may degrade and e-mail addresses may not be displayed.

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Any Current Browser Works

Content on this site is designed to work with any current browser.

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.

All pages have been checked and found to be valid 1.0 Transitional and valid CSS using W3C's validator services:

Valid XHTML 1.0!   Valid CSS!

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 and 9 are even more compliant and is strongly recommended. Other browsers also vary in their conformation to standards.

Update to Internet Explorer 8 or 9 Recommended

It is strongly recommended that Windows users update their Internet Explorer to version 8 or 9 using Windows Update or Microsoft Update if is available to your version of Windows even when using Firefox or another browser:

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 tags.

Changing Fonts Sizes & Colours

This site design is created with browser sizing at 800x600 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 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 8 or 9 users with the menu turned off (default setting) should 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. However, 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.

The trend is to save space on recent browsers by removing the menu by default. The Tools menu is replaced with a button at the top left in Firefox and Opera while Internet Explorer and Safari use a cog symbol.

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

The Power of CSS

This site uses a more flexible approach of using CSS for both layout and esthetics rather than embedding the layout within the page content. The power of this approach is demonstrated on the CSS Zen Garden site where the same text content can be easily altered by changing only the CSS (see the "select a design" menu).

Your Experience Degrades in Older Browsers

Unfortunately, your experience will degrade when viewing this site with an older browser. Content should be visible, but may be placed incorrectly. There may also be unintended side effects like visible borders around linked images (a result of changing web practices).

This problem should affect less than 5 percent of the browsers currently in use (primarily Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 4 and their earlier versions).

Internet Explorer 6 No Longer Supported

This site no longer supports Internet Explorer 6 in order to take advantage of technology that benefits the majority of our visitors. See Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 Countdown or .NET Magazine's Bring Down IE 6.

Upgrade Your Browser

To view this site properly, you may wish to upgrade to a newer browser. Current versions of Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer will work best.

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PDF Documents

Adobe Reader Needed

Documents in Adobe® PDF format allows you to view and print these documents without the programs used to create them.

The number in brackets — e.g. (PDF–250 KB) — indicates the size of the document in Kilobytes (KB) or Megabytes (MB).

In most cases, these documents will open inside your browser. Simply use the back arrow to return to the page where the document was linked.

Get Adobe® Reader®

You will need the free Adobe® Reader® to view and print these documents. This program is available for most operating systems (platforms).

While it is very common for Adobe Reader to be installed on computers, you may wish to update the version you are running or simply appreciate the convenience of having a link to the download site for future reference.

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Site Design & Maintenance

This site is designed by Russ Harvey Consulting. Please only if you have concerns directly related to the site design or function.

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Updated: September 21, 2011