Last Update: 12-29-2007

Website Text Size
If you find the website text to be too large or too small, you can adjust your web browser's settings to modify the text size.  If you are using the MS Internet Explorer web browser, select View / Text Size.  If you are using the Netscape web browser, select View / Increase Font or Decrease Font.

Viewing the Latest Version of a Web Page
Each time you open a web browsing session (when you start up your Netscape or Internet Explorer program), at least once a day for many Internet users, it is recommended that each web page you open the first time during that session you click on your web browser's RELOAD (Netscape) or REFRESH (Internet Explorer) button in the toolbar.  This will ensure that you are looking at the most up-to-date version of that web page.

Because web browser programs store (called cache) previously visited web pages for some period of time (which is controllable by the user via the computer's settings), many computer users do not know that some of the previously "saved" web page files may be many days old, so when you open a web page some days later you may see the exact same page you looked at many days ago, even though there really is a new version on the Internet.  The only way you get the latest version of the web page is to click on the RELOAD or REFRESH button.  You should get in the habit of doing this.  Be careful not to be misled by out-of-date information on a website  ... click Reload or Refresh and see that old data change.

Using the FIND to Locate Words on a Web Page
On any web page on the Internet, if you are looking for a particular word or group of words (subject, etc.), press the CTRL key and the F keys together to get the FIND window.  Enter the words you are interested in finding on that web page and click FIND NEXT.   It will look for the first location of the word on the web page.  Press the same keys again to see if the word shows up again on the web page.

Additions to the CCAS Website
If you have information or links that you feel might be a good addition to the CCAS website, please email your suggestions to ccas@ccastronomy.org.  We welcome not-for-profit information that would be useful in promoting astronomy.