Out with the old and in with the new:

The original WIL site design, having lapsed into a persistent vegetative state (don’t say you hadn’t noticed), was eased off life support in April 2005, and the present design replaces it. Since this will be the “look and feel” for, oh, the next 48 months or so, visitors may wish to review the navigation protocols set forth below.

Navigation Protocols &c

The major pages can be reached by means of menus at the top of the page and at the bottom of the page (the “QuickPages” button above the blue bar with the “Women in Logistics” name and address). “Contact information for this page” will, when clicked, bring up the name and email link of the WIL officer principally responsible for the content of that page. At the bottom of the screen are two buttons, one of which returns the visitor to the top of the page and the other of which summons forth this screen. The link for any given page (e.g., “Newsletter”) will be inactive on that actual page.

Most of the text links observe the following color protocols: Normal-sized text in this vaguely teal hue indicates an active link you have not hitherto followed. Such virgin links will turn this color 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 color until the next time your browser history is cleared.

The “Quickpages” button is a special case. When your cursor passes over it, a menu list of the ten principal pages will pop up. Its operation should be intuitive. The list of WIL officers on the “About” page likewise functions in a slightly different fashion, because the site administrator grew bored.

Troubleshooting (a few words from your site administrator):

Most of the pages have been designed to be forgiving of variations among the different flavors of browser software. If you are using a superannuated browser—a Netscape or MSIE version 3.0 or 4.0, say—you may encounter some grief, but you would presumably already be accustomed to this from visiting other sites designed since the last century. If you have your browser set to display text at larger-than normal sizes, you may experience formatting irregularities, and reducing the size at which your browser displays the text will likely correct the problem (it may be necessary to refresh your page view after you have adjusted the setting). If your browser settings are outlandishly idiosyncratic, and insist on overriding my 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 800 x 600 to 1280 x 1024, and probably performs optimally at 1024 x 768.

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:

1. Page name or title (either “scholar.htm” or “Women in Logistics — Scholarships,” for example).
2. A brief description of the problem.
3. Your operating system name and version number (e.g., "Windows 98” or “Mac OS 10.2.6”),
4. Your browser software name and version number (e.g., “MS Internet Explorer 5.1” or “Netscape Navigator 6.0”).

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.