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This
web site is a purely volunteer effort that has been accomplished
at no cost to the City of Vestavia Hills.
The
site was designed in, and is maintained with, Dreamweaver 4.0.
Each page is designed not to exceed 800 pixels in width. For optimal
viewing, you should set your computer monitor resolution higher
than 800x600 pixels (1024x768 is suggested, even if you have a
large screen monitor capable of higher resolutions). A setting
equal to or less than 800x600 is strongly discouraged.
Recent
studies suggest that 97% of e-mail addresses used by spammers are
obtained from addresses posted on web sites. Spambots (web crawlers)
harvest these addresses from unprotected sites. For this reason
all e-mail addresses posted on this website has been obfuscated
(embedded in the html code in Unicode format). Spambots cannot
understand Unicode and thus are unable to harvest the posted e-mail
addresses. Web browsers and e-mail programs, however, are "smart"
enough to present the coded e-mail addresses in readable form.
The
site works best if you use the latest version of one of the following
browsers:Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox,
Safari and Opera. Even though this site was redesigned to eliminate
frames, older Internet browsers will probably not fully support
its functional and formatting features. For these reasons, you
are strongly advised to upgrade your browser to the latest version
available. If you have difficulties in opening URLs pointing to
RSS feeds, please try to install and use the latest version of
the Mozilla Firefox browser if you use the Windows operating system.
If you use a Mac, please install the latest version of the OS
10 operating system and use Safari as your browser. Browser upgrades
are free, and links are provided so you easily can find installers
for these upgrades on the Internet. (CLICK
HERE)
It
is also recommended that you have Acrobat Reader installed on
your system to view documents posted on this site in Portable
Document Format (PDF). Again, links are provided to assist you.
(CLICK
HERE) When you install this software, be certain
to include the feature which allows you to search the PDF document
you open in Acrobat Reader.
The
web site is a dynamic collection of several thousand files in
need of constant revisions and updates. Additional information
and features will be added in the future. To keep all this information
organized and available to the users is a major task, and problems
do surface. If you encounter problems with non functional links,
erroneous information, outdated information -- whatever the problem
may be -- please, contact us so we can take corrective action.
We will highly appreciate any feedback that will assist us in
improving this site.
When
we need to close this site for maintenance, we will post a message
telling you when the maintenance began, the estimated time the
maintenance will take, and when the web site will be back on line.
Finally,
if you have a slow connection to the Internet, please consider
changing your browser preferences to NOT display Graphics and
Animated GIF files. This will speed up the loading of the pages
of this web site while you still will have access to all text
and links within the site.
Again,
please, send
us an e-mail if you discover
any problems on the site, or if you have suggestions for improving
the City of Vestavia Hills' Web Site.
I
hope your visits to our site will be pleasant and useful!
Sincerely,
Dr. Ragnar F. Flatland
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