Participation in this project requires no great sophistication in surfing. If you know how to use your right mouse button on the browsers that will surely be a good indicator that you are going to be able to get along here without any special efforts on your part.

If not, take a few minutes and run through the 'Web Tutorial that comes with your browser. It is well organized, instructive and free. It's a good investment of your time. (Look right up there at the Help Desk link just to your left on this page. That will lead you right to your tutorial.)

• Our web pages were designed for browsers that support the HTML 3 standard, and extensions to the HTML 3 standard. If your browser does not support these, you may want to get a browser that does. Netscape is a good place to start with 4.0/4.5, Communicator, of their excellent browser which is available at no charge at the Netscape Website. For the same price you can have Microsoft's fine Internet Explorer 4.0/5.0 (we have used the latter for these pages, controlling with Netscape as well to ensure a reasonable level of readability), which you will find at Internet Explorer Website. (Again, if you need help with your browser, both provide fine on-board tutorials).  
• Links to most common destinations in the conference can be found in the left-hand toolbar. 

• Anything underlined and outlined in a different font color than the rest of the text is a link. These links, once selected, will send you to another section of the current page, another page on the current site, another Web site altogether, a direct e-mail connection (if your browser supports that function), a downloadable file or any other of a number of options (a sound file, animation, etc..). In order to activate any link either select and hit return or click on it once with the mouse.  

• Not all browsers support all of the link options but we have tried to ensure that our pages are readable by a majority of existing browsers.  
• Graphics can also serve as links (look for an outline frame as an indication that a link is there). If you like what you see and would like to consult these materials off-line, many browsers allow you to save the file as a local html file. Some of the older browsers will not save graphics with the html file.  
• The best way to return to where you were (after using Help Desk, for instance) is to use your Browser's back button. This will usually return you to almost exactly where you were when you clicked on a link. You can use the Back button repeatedly to back up through the chain of links. 
• Hit ctrl + R twice in rapid succession to fully reload  a page. In many cases, this will take you up one level, to the Track Home Page. 
• There are some inactive links on the site. On most browsers, these will display without underlining, an indicates that they are not yet clickable links. 
• If you are new to the Web (WWW), you may want to go to Tips for Good Web Practice (Help for Tyros) section for a quick consultation and a few linked tutorials and learning sites. If you already have some basic knowledge of WWW navigation, here's a quick reminder:  
• TIP: If you are using a browser that supports graphics and have a slow modem or a slow connection, you might consider turning off the graphics loading mode. This can make a BIG difference in terms of the speed of operation!  
• Don't forget to clear your browser's memory cache regularly. Since site pages are constantly being added to and modified, if you do not do this, you will risk to call up the old page from your cache and perhaps confuse this with the actual state of play. So... clear that cache!  

 

Any Tips for Us

If you do, this is the place to send them. The Web never stands still and we all need all the help we can get. Anything that you send via the La Poste button to your immediate left will of course be shared with the entire group.

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