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This website was developed to meet the current and future needs of our members. We think information should be available to anyone in a format most useful for them.

Consequently, we have reworked our site in a first attempt to comply with the Wide Web Consortium and their proponents, the Web Standards Project. We have used Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for page layout and to replace most of the standard HTML presentational markup, and we have avoided JavaScript unless absolutely necessary.

We encourage our members to investigate these standards and CSS for their own sites. Reduced coding, machine-independent webpages, and cross-browser adaptability can only make information more useful to a wider population.

If you're interested, try the following sites:

• WestCiv (Western Civilization), the premier starting point
• HTML Dog's CSS Beginner's Guide
• Basic tutorial by Bert Bos, who, with Hakon Wium Lie, developed the original CSS
• DAVESITE CSS: Beginner's tutorial from Dave Kristula.
• HTML Source
• CSS/Edge
• A List Apart
• Zen Garden
• Simple Bits

Want an education? Try your pages in Windows browsers that support CSS: Opera, Firefox (Mozilla), Netscape Navigator v7.1 and Netscape Navigator v8 (beta) all support CSS. Internet Explorer v6 mostly supports CSS, with some awkward, glaring exceptions; Netscape Navigator v7 does somewhat better.

It is also safer to avoid using Internet Explorer altogether. For more info, see

If you're really adventurous, check out other alternative browsers, too.

Apologies to Mac users for our windows-centric viewpoint. Safari is good for IEx/Mac.