"How to Work with this Site"
If you arrived here through clicking the BANNER-applet, and you want to return to the INDEX page again, than you must apply the "BACK" button of your browser's navigation bar.
If you came from a screen, telling you that your browser is to old to understand frames, your browser also does not understand applets and buttons then the next two sentences are important for you. You still can see this site through the overview page where you will find lots of links to interesting places From all those places you will always be enabled to return to the overview again.
If you use Netscape you can " enlarge / reduce " the characters on your screen by pressing " Ctrl+] / Ctrl+[ ". It is OK if you want to try this trick right away.
The big tables of this site were all made in spreadsheets (Excel) first. The translation into html-files, was very inefficient. there are much more formatting data in each cell, then strictly necessary for the representation. Some of these table-files could have been half as big as they are now. I am eager to get tips on solving this problem in a simple way. Though I know it can be done by hand, I do not like this idea. The largest files in this site are about 50 kB. These will need about 15 seconds to load with fast modems. The site contains nearly 27 files (outof more then 200) that are over 25 kB big. I recommend interested visitors to download MAF completely and install on your own computer. Than you can study MAF off-line, which is faster.
There are many links in this site which link to the same target. Once arrived at the target, the browser cannot remember where you came from. So, when linking, you will have to do that, at least if you want to return afterwards.
Partly this is caused by the application of "frames". You stay often in the same frame called "index".
Netscape's browser designers however have developed a weapon against this phenomenon. This weapon is very valuable, especially for visitors who use small 14" monitors, because they are enabled by their browser to enlarge their "screens" in a very simple way.
Many visitors perhaps do not know that it is possible to to get the images "full screen", i.e. without banners and menus around the actual page. Under Netscape's (4.*) right mouse button is a "pop up menu" which holds, among others, the command "open frame in new window". Left-licking this command opens a second full screen browser window. This window contains the image of the active frame field or the link the mouse pointer indicated when right-clicking. In this window you may link to everywhere you want. After this you can browse, using the browser's forward/backward buttons, through the places where you have been. The former framed window remains available in the "Windows-start-program-bar" (the bar which starts at the "START" button)
You can repeat the making of new windows often, and so be in many places of a framed site (like this one) simultaneously. You can do all the linking from the full screen window.
Also it is not necessary to remember yourself where you are, when linking. The computer will do this for you. The former framed window will remain in the (thing I called, not knowing the official name:) "Window95-program-bar".
It is even possible in Netscape, very convenient, to right-click a link. As a result a menu pops up in which you may choose among others for open in a new window. This receipt also works on the buttons, the way I made them.
In the Internet Explorer I could not find similar convenient features. However the menu "view|internet options|general|fonts|fontsize" enables you to change the character size in a small range and in a very laborious way. I could not find a way to open several windows simultaneously, as easy as Netscape does this. Using the "history button" it is possible to go back to pages where you have been before. You can only observe them full screen (without my button- and title-bars, which is important for users of 14" monitors) if you can identify the names I gave to the relevant pages. The "history window" contains also titles of pages that you cannot know and do not need not to know; they belong to pages that make my site work like it does. In the history window they may confuse site-visitors. Further you should clean the history window (view|internet options|.....|clean history) before you start studying a site like this one. You can return to the framed original page by choosing for "index" in the history window.
After all you will understand why I use Netscape. It is not impossible that IExplorer yet has more tools (macro's or something like that) with regard to the usability then I know off, because I have very little experience with that program.
So msIE-users, if you cannot find similar tools, all I can recommend is:
USE NETSCAPE (version 4.*** or later)
If you want to download the the recent version of one of these browsers now, please click on the appropriate image above.
In this site you will find in many places a home icon like 
,
if you click it you will always be sent to the Introduction Page. If you want to go to the home(green)page you should click the browser's "HOME" button.
If you just want to go back to where you came from, then, when in Netscape, you should press Alt+G, B. You may also use the right mouse button features for this or the back-button in Netscape's button bar.
Through out the site different fonts are used. I do not remember them all, but here are 17 examples:
Copperplate Gothic Bold
informal011 BT
GeoSlab703 XBd BT
Lucida Handwriting
Arial
Arial Black
Broadway BT
Franklin Gothic Heavy
Small Bd BT
Umbra BT
Lithograph
PosterBodoni It BT
Century Gothic
Wide Latin
Modern No. 20
SYMBOL=SYMBOL
WINGDINGS=WINGDINGS
If you see less then there might be some small peaces of this site that cannot be read by you. If you want all, you must download the compressed file and install the fonts, you will find, on your computer. If you see nothing at all, then you probably do not run a good browser.
These and many other fonts were installed on my computer by Windows95 and probably some other programs, without telling me anything.
I hope they are also on yours. Especially the Wingdings font (table with examples of the symbols and with 93 kB the biggest file of my site)
is important while these fonts take care of the suit characters.
If you are browsing under a Mac or a Unix/Linux OS you will probably have troubles with these characters.
If you use Netscape under Windows95 you should encounter no problems, at least if the radio button in the Edit | Preferences | Fonts - menu called "use document specified font ......" is turned "ON".
If you've kicked that doggy outof the window, and press successively MORE an MISC a new main menu appears. In this menu are are a red and a green button. Clicking these will remove and make return again the applets.
Another button in this menu, called control panel, will take you to a splendid (to my taste as a matter of fact) surf board. The ticker-applets are borrowed from servers in the US, I did'nt make them myself. It may take some time (up to 1 minuut) to get them into your computer, when it's crowded on the internet or on these servers.
When you've used the control panel once online, then the applets are also in your browser's cache and enable you to use the control panel offline. It may take a long time (up to 10 minutes, I don't understand why) for the browser to find the applets in the cache. It's certainly worth while to wait for it, if you own a 14" monitor, because it gives you all pages full screen. While waiting you can return to the original window, you were in before you clicked for the control panel. Netscape will continue the search for the applets.
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