Your 'browser' is the software application you use to view web pages. As of February 2007, about 59 percent of you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer, 33 percent use the free Firefox browser and only a few users "surf" with other applications.

Linking

Linking to other web pages, on our site or other sites, is one of the unique advantages of presenting information on the internet. We strongly advocate hyperlinked history and we link extensively.

As you use your mouse to move your cursor around a web page, it changes shape when it is on an active link.

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We show all links as underlined text. We never underline text except to show a link. Our links are active: clicking on them takes you to another page or, in a few cases, to another place on the same page. Example: bottom of page.

There are two types of links and our custom is to use them differently.

• Internal links (links to pages on this website)
  The new page takes the place of the page you had been viewing. To return to where you were, click on the "back" icon or link on your browser or press the 'back' key if your keyboard has one. If the link doesn't work "page not found" will display, or it the page does display and you want to comment on it, contact us.
   

• External links (links to pages on other websites)
  The new page will open in a new window of your browser software. That will let you move around the other site freely. If our link doesn't work "page not found" will display. Please contact us. But if it works, please remember that you are now viewing pages on another website, so address any comments to the webmaster of the other site, not to us. To return to our page, close this new window by clicking on the in the upper right corner of your screen.

More to come ....