Tips for Using this Web Site

Viewing the ACUADS Web Site

Web browsers

There are many browsers available, all of which perform a similar function. The most highly recommended is Mozilla's Firefox browser, which outperforms most other browsers in speed and security. Firefox blocks advertisers' unsolicited popup windows, protects against spyware and provides "tabs" to allow you to browse multiple sites within a single browser window. Firefox can also import your settings and "Favorites" (or "Bookmarks") from other browsers so that you don't have to rebuild your bookmark collection or recustomise your Preferences.

The "Refresh" / "Reload" function

To ensure that you are viewing the latest version of any given web page on our site, you may need to click the "Refresh" or "Reload current page" button at the top of your browser window (similar to or ). This sends a request to the web server to load the latest version of the file – otherwise you may be seeing an older version that your organisation's proxy server or your own browser have cached on a previous visit for faster loading on subsequent visits.

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Downloading PDF Files

Conference Papers and many other downloadable documents on this site are in PDF format.

To download a PDF file, simply click on its link, and select "Save" when given the option to open the document or save it to your computer. To view these files you need Adobe Reader.

Installation instructions are also provided on the Adobe web site (but it's a simple process!).

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Printing ACUADS Web Pages

The ACUADS web site uses "HTML frames" for its structure. This means that when you go to print one of our web pages there are three possible outcomes, depending on where you have last clicked on the page. Either the navigation menu will be printed, or the top banner image, or the actual content of the page. There are two easy solutions to this predicament:

To print ONLY THE CONTENT of a page:

First click anywhere within the text of the web page (i.e. within the section that has a white background). This identifies the page content as the frame to be printed. Next, select "Print…".

To print the FULL WEB PAGE (all components):

First select "Print…" from your browser's File menu. Next, depending on which browser you use, either click on the "Options" tab and select "As laid out on screen", or from the "Print Frames" section select "As laid out on the screen". Both of these options are equivalent in meaning to "Print all frames".

Resizing techniques

If a printed web page does not fit onto one A4 page there are different ways to get around this, depending on both your browser and your printer model. Some solutions include:

• select "Page Setup…" from your browser's File menu and enable "Shrink to fit page"
• select "Print…" from the File menu, then "Preferences" and choose "Fit-to-Page Printing"
• any variation on this theme that corresponds to your particular browser-printer combination.

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