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Ozcranes.net is committed to easier web access for everyone interested in Brolgas, Sarus Cranes and crane conservation. Here's a start – how to read with larger fonts and move efficiently and we hope enjoyably, around the site. Internet problems for rural users influenced us to aim for Web Standards, and to limit images and pdfs. More usability features will be added, we value your feedback on priorities.

Using Ozcranes

Links Links are coloured brown, with blue underlining: solid for not visited yet and dotted for already visited. In the top Navigation, Breadcrumb Trail, and Sidebar, the name for the page/section you're on, is blue.

Pagelinks & Breadcrumb Trail ‘»’ The Trail at the top of each page shows your likely path to a page. ‘Top’ links: long articles have linked headings to sections, with ‘Top’ links every so often to return to (yes) top of page.

Internal links Hover to see the name of another Ozcranes page they'll take you to.

External links Websites: hover to see the title plus ‘External’, they'll take you away from Ozcranes. IE 6 and Mozilla Firefox show just the title, Opera shows the full url.

Email links Email addresses posted on this site for the Australian Crane Network and other contacts have been partly disguised to hinder spammers without, we hope, compromising usability for readers, but all internet users need a reputable free or commercial mail filtering program. To use the email links: replace AT with @ and DOT with.

Bookmarking Ozcranes Ozcranes.net is a registered domain name with web hosting generously assisted by Webboy. The address for bookmarking is ‘http://ozcranes.net/index.html’.

Download speeds Adequate line-speed is still a dream for many Australians in areas with significant crane habitat, so for faster loading Ozcranes has mostly print-friendly html pages, not pdfs. Any pdfs we post here or link to elsewhere, state the size of the file. And to make them smaller, pdf files on Ozcranes only work with versions of Acrobat Reader 5 and above. To upgrade your version, open Acrobat and go Help, ‘Look for updates now’. Also, you can choose which images to load..

Turn off Images In Internet Explorer go Tools-Internet Options-Advanced-Multimedia. Uncheck ‘Show pictures’ and check ‘Show image download placeholders’. In Firefox go Tools-Options-Web Features, and uncheck ‘Load Images’. In Opera click the Images icon on the toolbar and check ‘No Images’. Every ‘placeholder’ has a few words describing the image – if it looks interesting, load by right clicking the placeholder (or toolbar icon) to see your browser's options.

Finding it on OzcranesThe Site Map has links to every Ozcranes page.

Copyright Please view, print or link to our articles – but don't republish. Copyright is held by the original publisher, author, or artist/photographer. To request republishing, please contact them at the address given with the article or image, or email the Web Manager. Written requests: Australian Crane Network, PO Box 59, Atherton Qld Australia 4883.

Opinions Articles are included for interest and relevance – they reflect the author's opinion, not necessarily the views of the Australian Crane Network, its network partners, or the Editor. The same applies to answers provided via the Australian Crane Network, to readers' questions.

Privacy If you ask to participate in the Australian Crane Network, you'll receive email updates from time to time. If you contact the Network asking for information, the request will be forwarded to a suitable person within the Network to answer. No details will be given to any third party, unless required by law.

Legal disclaimer Please read our legal disclaimer before acting upon material on this site.

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Viewing Ozcranes the way you want

‘Print-friendly’? All Ozcranes pages are print-friendly! Just click the ‘Print Preview’ button on your browser toolbar (or go File-Print Preview) to view the look of the printed page, then ‘Print’. But we can't do anything about headers and footers: they're done by your browser, good luck customising..

Like to read with larger (or smaller) text?Too easy – Ozcranes is written with proportional fonts. To increase text size in your browser: go View-Font size-Larger, or View-Text size-Increase. Opera and Safari have a Toolbar icon, click for large text.

Acronyms Love or hate acronyms? On Ozcranes, if an acronym or abbreviation is on a page, there's at least one full title in the text. Double underlined words are acronyms or abbreviations with a hover title.

Fuzzy fonts? If large text (like the main top heading) looks fuzzy, maybe you're using Windows with Display Settings that haven't turned on font-smoothing. In XP, right click anywhere on the Desktop, click on Properties, Appearance, Effects, and check ‘Standard’ in the box labelled ‘Use the following method to smooth fonts’ (desktops). Or for laptops, try ‘ClearType’. This should improve large text clarity in a number of programs.

For best viewing turn off sidebars like Favourites or History.

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Feedback

Problems or questions? If you have any questions, or suggestions for the site please let us know. You can check our current ‘To Do’ list. It's on the Web design and resource page, with lots of links to learning and advice resources that give continuing support to our fully volunteer web efforts at Ozcranes.

..more info pages‘About Ozcranes’ & Contacts are here or the latest for all Ozcranes Sections is in News and Diary.

Change AT to @ and DOT to . in email addresses