Using This Web Site

2. What are the technical requirements for using this site? Do I need special software?

This web site has been designed to be compatible with common web browsers on both Macintosh OSX and PC computers. For optimal use we recommend Internet Explorer 7.0+, Opera 7.0+, Firefox 1.5+, or Safari 1.0+ with Cookies and Javascript enabled and a screen resolution of 800 pixels x 600 pixels or higher.

Some portions of this website employ pop-up windows. Pop-up blocker software, may interfere with your navigation of this web site and cause unexpected results. We recommend you disable your pop-up stopper software when using the ESE website. Alternately, if your pop-up blocker software allows you to list exceptions by domain, we strongly suggest that you put http://www.doe.mass.edu and http://www4.doemass.org in your exceptions list.

We sometimes post documents in formats other than HTML.

PDF documents require Acrobat Reader. We also post the following Microsoft Office formats. If you do not have this software on your computer, you can download FREE viewers from Microsoft.

PowerPoint
Word
Excel

Other symbology we use:

	directions and/or map
	e-mail address
	external link to to a page outside ESE's domain
	html page
	plain text file, (txt)
	Microsoft Access database file, (mdb)
	gif image
	jpeg image
	mp3 audio file
	Quicktime movie, (mov)
	Windows Media Video, (wmv)
	flash video
	zip archive file
	executable file, (exe)

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