Common navigation features

This site uses certain navigation features common to many web pages. Firstly, some 'links' will not appear "like this". Often they are embedded within a graphic. You can identify these by how the mouse pointer will change from...

this: to this:. Try moving the mouse over the words "back to home" in the grey graphic strip above. This is a link back to the 'home page'. To see information further down the page you can use the mouse to click on the arrows on the scroll bars on the sides of this window. These scroll bars will look similar to this:

One last important navigation tool; the back button. This feature will return you to the last page you were just looking at. It's located in the top left corner of this page, as illustrated below:

Special navigation features

This site also utilizes some special features to provide an optimal navigation system. These features are:

  • JavaScript
  • Cookies
  • Dynamic HTML

JavaScript
If you have reached this page, then your system is running JavaScript. This is a computer language and elements of the pages within this site are written with this language.

Cookies
This is the name of very small text files that web sites use to communicate with users on the Web. This site has enhanced navigational features that use a single 'Cookie'. If your cookies are disabled, you would have read a warning message when you saw the home page. You can turn them on via the preferences settings for this program.

Dynamic HTML
For users of version 4 or higher of Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer the site will automatically load a different navigation interface that has extra features built with Dynamic HTML.