First off, if this table has a purple colored border your browser is using style sheets and you'll see our site the way we intended it to be seen. If you're looking at a white screen with black type - select the preferences for your browser and either turn on style sheets or turn off preferences of local over remote.

For Netscape, it's a radio button in the Advanced section of Preferences. Internet Explorer has controls for color and font in the General - Accessability section of Options. If you want plain black on white, it's your machine. Just pass up offers to review our site for style and appearance.

When you get to the Map Gallery and select some of the themes, a navigation window (250 pixels wide) is opened near the top left corner of your screen. These windows are tools that allow you to select region and scale for a series of maps without having to scroll or use the "back" button on the main window.

For those who like to have the browser window fill the screen, enjoy but it isn't necessary. A window that is a little wider than the 660 pixel navigation bar will accomodate not only our site but most other sites as well. When a navigation window appears, the full screen viewers may see it disappear if the main window is activated. Systems without a taskbar make it even more difficult to get around. The sample image above is a 50% reduction of a 1018 by 778 pixel computer screen. It illustrates how we place the navigation and browser windows.

Would that it were so. We use Netscape because it maintains proportionality in fonts better than IE. It was the first to provide higher level style sheet controls, its javascript engine works faster, and it is platform independent (works the same way in all operating systems).

We believe that the user should have the option to set font sizes, types, and window size and that the design should anticipate that as best it can. Except for the home page, our pages "go with the flow." We do not fix font and window size in our style sheets. The small navigation windows are set to an initial size but can be changed to suit your preferences.

That said, text proportions produced with IE 5.0's "medium" or larger text size are good. "Small" and "smaller" distort proportions. Netscape better maintains the relative sizes of type. However, if you choose 8 or 9 pt type you better have good eyes, or glasses, to read the fine print.

The Work Plan section format uses elements from cascading style sheet specification 2 (CSS2). Internet Explorer must be at least Version 5.0 to show the formatting. Netscape Versions 4.1 and later display the pages as designed.