Site Use Tips

I have tried to design this site, my very first, to be accessible to everyone. I have tried to accommodate older browsers (running on older computers with older operating systems) and text-only browsers; and I hope I have made this site disability accessible. I have designed everything to look OK on small (13"), low resolution (640 x 480), 8-bit (256 colors) monitors, but it will look best on 24 bit ("millions") monitors. (Note : everything will look better on a Mac than on a Wintel PC. That is due to the intrinsically darker "gamma" of monitors running on a PC.) Everything except color images should look OK on greyscale or even on black & white monitors.

The main value in the site for most people lies in the educational content : original text articles on various aspects of dog care , dog training, dog rescue, and the Bouvier breed of dog. The cartoons and photos, while enjoyable, are not essential to the educational content, so if you are unable to view the images, don't feel that you are missing something essential.

I have tried to keep the pages small , so they will load fast even over a dial-up connection. The various topic Index pages are the backbone of the site, so those pages or the Welcome page or What's New page is the ones to bookmark.

Don't forget that you can change the fonts, the text size , background color , link and visited link colors, and so on by altering your browser Preferences. So if you don't like my choices, DO feel free to change them; I have deliberately avoided using any coding that would override your choices, because I know some people need or want really large sized text or other visibility accomodations.

I will continue to add material to this site from time to time, especially throughout the year 2003. I still have a large backlog of material and am continuing to write new material as the need for it arises.