- This site has been designed with the latest web standards in mind in order to provide a fast-loading, rich, and accessible site
that will offer the best possible experience.
Although at the current time these standards have not been fully implemented, this site is based upon the following standards
(click on links for more information):
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional
- The latest version of HTML, which is a hybrid of HTML 4.01 and
XML 1.0. Browsers such as newer versions of Netscape that can handle
XHTML will receive pages as such. Other browsers will receive HTML 4.01 Strict pages.
- CSS2
- A language which allows presentation to be separated from content through the use of style sheets, simplifying web
design and maintenance.
- Although this site may be viewed with any browser, the following browsers should provide the best support:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0+ – Win/Mac
- Netscape Navigator 6.0+ – Win/Mac
- Opera 6+ – Win
- Opera 5+ – Mac
- Mozilla 1.0+ – Win/Mac
- Mozilla Firefox 1.0+ – Win/Mac
- Safari 1+ – Mac
There are likely other browsers not been mentioned on this list that should also provide good support.
- Pages have been designed with Macromedia’s Studio MX, a suite of tools including Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX (Macromedia has since
been acquired by Adobe).
- Pages have been designed as ASP.NET pages implemented with
C#.
- The site search engine is powered by the Fluid
Dynamics Search Engine version 2.0.0.0073. This engine and other portions of the site are programmed in
ActiveState’s ActivePerl.
- Menus have been created with Ger Versluis’ PopMenu 7.00.
This Javascript-based menu system has been chosen due to its rich functionality. However, a CSS-based implementation may be considered in the future in order to improve
compatibility and load times.