Site Information and Terms of Use
Disclaimer
This disclaimer is applicable to the websites "www.dvatp.com" and "www.dvcfi.com"("Website").
The content provided by the website is for educational and entertainment purposes only. All content on the Website is provided "AS IS", without any warranty of any kind, express or implied.
Under no circumstance will the Website, its owners, creators, or contributors be liable to any person or business entity for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other damages based on any use of the Website or any information contained therein, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, or loss of programs or information.
Browser Requirements
You should use a modern, standards-compliant browser to view this site. The site aims to be XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant so your best viewing experience will be with a browser that supports this standard.
I regularly use browsers based on the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine including Firefox. I also test command line browsers such as lynx to promote accessibility.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later will render this site reasonably well, though due to bugs that Microsoft refuses to fix and because of ongoing security and privacy concerns, I strongly advise against the use of Internet Explorer.
Document Helpers
Documents ending in .pdf should be viewed with Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later. It's free, so why not get it?
Documents ending in .doc should be viewed with the Word component of Office XP.
NOTE: Over the coming months I expect to convert all .doc documents on this site to OpenOffice format so that they can be easily viewed on multiple platforms. Once that happens, they will no longer be viewable in Word (well, unless Microsoft decides to support a open-standard file format). Get them while they last, and while you're at it, get a copy of OpenOffice. It's free.
Hyperlink Format
Links to resources on this site
Hyperlinks embedded in content on this site are shown in dark blue, boldface text. When the mouse is hovered over the link, the link text changes to red.
Links to resources outside of dvatp.com
Hyperlinks to other sites appear as all other links do, except that the text background is changed to yellow if the mouse is hovered over the link text. This serves as a reminder that the link will send you to a resource that is not on this site.
No pop up windows
This site does not open any links in a new window. This is good because it allows you, the reader, to choose when or if a new window is launched. It also preserves use of the "back" button.
If you want to open a link in a new window, use your browser to do exactly that. In Mozilla or Firefox, right click on the link and select "Open Link in New Window".
Linking to this site
If you wish to provide a link to this site, please link to the main site (http://www.dvatp.com/) and describe the general path to the content, e.g. "Go to http://www.dvatp.com/ and then click through "Aviation->Articles->Cool Article". DO NOT LINK TO SPECIFIC ARTICLES, PICTURES, OR OTHER CONTENT, as they may change on a regular basis.
This is particularly important on UseNet newsgroups, as the content of those groups is stored for YEARS by Google and other archiving services. If it's one thing the net doesn't need, it's another dead hyperlink.
Font Support
The site looks best when rendered with a scalable sans serif font such as Helvetica or Verdana.
I do not impose a font size on your browser. I merely suggest a relative size (80%, 100%, etc.) and your browser should equate 100% to its default size (16 pt in the case of Mozilla or IE).
If the fonts on this site are of a size not to your liking, simply edit your browser's preferences to select a better font size. If you're using Mozilla or Firebird, you can use [CTRL]-[+] (Control-Plus Sign) to increase, and [CTRL]-[-] (Control Minus Sign) to decrease font size on the fly.
Development Tools
Content is developed in Dreamweaver and XEmacs. The content is then transferred to the site with Dreamweaver. Most of the graphics on the site were created and manipulated with The GIMP, but I occasionally use other tools as needed.