The moving finger having writ...
at least writes better HTML these days. This is the third iteration of the Women in Logistics website, supplanting Revision 2.0 (April 2005 - October 2009) and Revision 1.0 (ca. 1999 - April 2005), that noble "public beta." A moment of silence, please, for these shambling forbears now gone to their deserved rest.
Navigation protocols &c
The major pages can be reached by means of menus near the top of the screen. At the bottom of the screen “Contact information for this page” will, when clicked, bring up your email client ready to fire off an inquiry to the WIL officer principally responsible for the content of that page. Beneath that are two more buttons, one of which returns the visitor to the top of the page and the other of which summons forth this screen. But of course, you knew that already.
Most of the text links observe the following color protocols: Normal-sized text in this color indicates an active link you have not hitherto followed. Such virgin links will turn bright green when your cursor passes over them. Once you have clicked on a link, or visited its destination via another link, it will thereafter display in this nondescript salmon until the next time your browser history is cleared.
Troubleshooting
Most of the pages have been designed to be forgiving of variations among the different flavors of modern browser software. If you are using a superannuated browser—Microsoft’s “Internet Explorer” version 6, say (see below)—you may encounter some grief, but you would presumably already be accustomed to this from visiting other sites designed since the last century. This new design is considerably more tolerant of individual user settings than the previous one was, so if the text is a little fine-grained for your liking you can ramp up the size at which your browser displays it without deranging the page layout. If your browser settings are outlandishly idiosyncratic, and insist on overriding the site specifications so that all text can be displayed in the “Big Chief Notepad” font at 72 points—well, it is not feasible to design against these implausible contingencies, and your site administrator/web dude feels that in assembling the present iteration he has done all that conscience might reasonably require by way of accommodation. The site has been tested at screen resolutions from 1024 x 768 to 1920 x 1200, and probably performs optimally at higher resolutions. Those of you with monitors still set to 800 x 600 are in trouble, but again, you must have noticed this at points already since 2003.
MSIE 6
No browsing software in history has ever been more broadly and deeply despised by the technical sector than Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) 6, although iterations 1 through 5 have also had some eloquent detractors. If you're still using MSIE 6...please don't. There are better-designed and much safer alternatives out there, including MSIE 7. Site administrators all around the world will thank you even as millions of spammers, scammers, hackers and purported heirs to deposed equatorial despots gnash such teeth as dentistry in the underdeveloped world has left them.
Damage control
Should you encounter technical difficulties as you use this site—broken links, erratic page displays, plagues of locusts—we’d like to hear about it. Please include the following elements in your report to us:
- Page name or title (either “scholar_current.html” or “Women in Logistics — Scholarships,” for example).
- A brief yet informative description of the problem.
- Your operating system name and version number (e.g., "Windows XP” or “Mac OS 10.4.11”),
- Your browser software name and version number (e.g., “MS Internet Explorer 7.0” or “Opera 10.0" or "Safari 4.03”).
When your report is ready to send, please direct it here (leave “WIL Bug Report” in the subject header line so that my Spam Rottweilers will know not to devour it). The WIL Board requests that contacts with the site administrator/web dude be confined to technical impedimenta.
