Help With Using Our Site

We welcome all visitors and hope our site is easy for you to use. If you encounter any difficulty, please take a few minutes to read through the tips provided below. We've designed the site to be viewable in most modern browsers. More modern browsers support more advanced functions, including JavaScript. JavaScript allows us to move things around the screen, change displays, and generally make our site more interactive and interesting. JavaScript is usually enabled by default in all browsers. If you have trouble using our menus, for example, most likely your browser's JavaScript has been disabled.

Is Your Browser Up To Date?

If it's been a while since you installed your Internet browser, we encourage you to upgrade to a newer version for an optimal browsing experience:

• www.firefox.com
• www.netscape.com
  
• www.microsoft.com
• www.aol.com
• www.apple.com

If you have already upgraded, and you still have difficulty using our site, make sure you have JavaScript turned in your browser's preferences panel.

Turning On (Enabling) Javascript

if you use aol

You might find it easier to set up a different browser for viewing our site. Many AOL users don't know they can simply download a different browser and configure it for use on the WWW at large. If you want to give this a try, you can select a browser to download via the links provided above.

if you use microsoft internet explorer browser

1. Click the View menu and select "Internet Options..."
2. Click on the "Security" Tab at the top
3. Click on the "Custom Level" button near the bottom
4. Click the "Settings..." button
5. Scroll down to Scripting "Active scripting" and click the "Enable" radio button
6. Click the OK button, which closes that window
7. Click the next OK button (at the bottom of the Internet Options window)
8. Refresh your browser or click the 'Back' button on your browser to return to the Previous page

Note:If this does not work for your version of Internet Explorer, selecting "Medium" from the dropdown "Reset Custom settings" menu will usually work.

if you use netscape/mozilla

1. Click on the Edits menu
2. Click on "Preferences"
3. Click on "Advanced"
4. Check the boxes for "Enable Java" and "Enable native object scripting"

Ii you use firefox

1. Click on the Tools menu
2. Click on "Options"
3. Click on "Web Features"
4. Check the boxes for "Enable Java" and "Enable JavaScript"

if you use safari

1. Click on the Safari menu
2. Click on "Preferences"
3. Click on "Security"
4. Check the boxes for "Enable Java" and "Enable JavaScript"

Please Note:

Every off-site link should open a new browser window. You need only to close that window to stay at (or return to) our site. If you come upon a link that doesn't open a new window, simply use your browser's BACK button to return - then please notify our webmaster.