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The site attempts to comply with the W3C standards. W3C is the WWW Consortium, started in 1994 while CERN moved the WWW technology to a group of information technology research institutes. Using the standards and keeping pages simple in structure ensures that the site can be viewed on a large number of browsers. Nevertheless, some browsers do not implement the W3C standards well, and this may lead to some strange behaviour. To our regret we do not have the resources to adapt this site to all web browsers. If you experience problems, try one of the following browsers which you can download :free
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The above three browsers will display the GAC-EPA site correctly. If you still experience any strange problem you may contact webmaster@gac-epa.org
The welcome page is http://www.gac-epa.org.
It shows important announcements and is in both languages, it carries the main links into the site: the link to the French language pages and the link to the English language pages.
You can bookmark the welcome page, or you may prefer to enter the site on the French or English pages and
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bookmark either of those. The language home pages carry the links to all the chapters of the site.
The site has no frames and no technologies that redirect URLs, therefore you can bookmark any page or send the address of any page to friends.
All pages, except the welcome page, show a navigation banner at the top. It has two areas: a set of quick links and a search box.
The little flag shows the language version you will go to when you click the flag. On English pages it is a French flag, on French pages it is a UK flag. Not all pages exist in both languages, you will be warned if a language version is absent.
The search box uses Google search but is limited to the GAC-EPA site. You can type any set of words into the search box, the result is a conventional Google list of links to relevant pages.
The bulletins are available in two forms:
The web form is very differently structured to the printed version, but the information in it is exactly the same or even slightly better.
In the web version there is no mixing of languages: the entire bulletin is presented in the language of your choice. Small errors have been corrected when found, duplicated information such as addresses and lists of associations have been placed in separate pages under their own heading and therefore do not appear under the bulletin chapter at all. Tributes to deceased members have been moved to a tributes section so they are easier to find. Links to relevant secondary information have been put in.
In contrast, the pdf version conforms to the printed version, it is not corrected and has no active links. It is provided purely for those who still prefer a printed version.
Some announcements made by the GAC-EPA to its members have related documents. These documents are available from a chronogical list. The list can be accessed from the welcome page and also from each language home page. In this list you may find the texts of presentations, links to material that was presented to GAC-EPA members by others from outside the GAC-EPA, calls to Annual General Meetings and so on.
In cases where there are choices, a page may display buttons:
| Nr. | Date | web | |
| 38 | 2009 Spring |  |
(890kB) |
| 37 | 2008 Autumn | |
(676kB) |
| 36 | 2008 Spring | |
(721kB) |
In this example there are two columns of blue buttons. In this particular case, the buttons in the web column would be the links to the web pages and those in the pdf column would download pdf versions. Clicking a button would go to the desired page or download the desired document.