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GREETINGS! |
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I'd like you to see this site as I
intended it. Design-wise, font-wise, and content wise. Mostly that means
fonts. |
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FONTS |
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I've
used 'character' fonts. If you
don't have these fonts installed, you're missing out,
big-time.
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If this text doesn't
look like it's been
typed on an old typewriter,
then you don't have the P22 Typewriter font.
http://www.fontyukle.net/en/P22+Typewriter.ttf
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If this text doesn't
look like handwriting, then you don't have the TexasHero font.
http://www.fontyukle.net/en/1,texas |
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If this text doesn't
look like you'd see it reading THE TIMES , then you don't have the
Palatino Linotype
font. |
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If this doesn't
slook like an uneven, sharp scrip, you do not have the Viner Hand ITC
font. |
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The CHS
MEMBERSHIP CD includes
ways and means to obtain and install them, but there are other ways of
getting them. Cheap Charlies can search the font name together with the
words free and download. |
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APPLE PRODUCTS |
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Fonts can be a problem if you are viewing us via an Apple-based product. I
have been doing pages through Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7
fonts. If
you know
how to embed fonts, kindly volunteer your services to help us. |
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NAVIGATION |
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Firstly,
we're not a website for casual web-surfers. Firstly, we're a HUGE
site. At last count, we are in fact, TEN websites. We're not designed for
two hour tours because we don't like two-hour tourists. Just like a
freshman doesn't expect to get a Master's Degree in first semester, don't
think you can read our site in a single weekend.
Because we have common threads, there are
relationships between the sites which might confuse you. Think of them as
being like Disney World - a number of areas arranged around a core, many
with their own entrances, and a main entrance as well. |
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I have obtained permissions
to reprint many materials which, though elsewhere on the net, you may not
know where to locate. The sites also contain a lot of unique content which
is not available elsewhere -- unless they stole it from us.
Secondly, our site navigation
isn't always intuitive - like the airlines, our sites are like airline
hubs, and so there are not always direct links available to go from A to C.
I want it that way.
Thirdly, I hide things, to
reward the persistent reader. Benefits
accrue in accordance with the depth of your digging. So
don't worry about getting lost, you might find something special.
Fourthly, the sites are a
graphically rich environment and I make no apologies for pages which load
slowly. If you have a short attention span, you don't belong here in the
first place. |
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COMPATIBILITY |
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The website was developed using Microsoft
FrontPage, and Expression Web - some features will not display identically
using other browsers. Not every Internet Browser handles FP/JAVA language
equally. And WTF is HTML5 Compatibility? Doing sites to keep up with the
competing versions of browsers and programming languages is something which
large companies do well. I am a single individual, not a large company.
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POPUPS, PRIVACY & TRACKING
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I
use NO pop-up ads, NO cookies, no data-miners, and keep NO record of
individual visitors. Active-X and Java are used occasionally, but just to
navigate, close pages, and enhance some presentations. There are no hidden
scripts etc. If you find one, the site has been hacked. Tell me quick! |
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E-MAIL ADDRESSES
- WHY THE ZZ'S?
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Websites where people
leave their e-mail addresses are one of the main sources
which the junk-mail web-bots scour for e-mail addresses. To prevent this, I
either reproduce our address as a graphic, or have added z's before and
after the @. Simply remove the z's and the address will be correct. |
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PRIVACY OF MEMBERS
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Details of members are
available to other members only, and no commercial or nuisance use of
members details will be tolerated. |
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DONATIONS AND SPONSORSHIP
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I promote
the values espoused by the WWII combat veterans who have assisted me through
the years. The website is funded mostly by me. That's by circumstance, and
not by choice. If you think there's profit in this, you're a complete idiot
and I'd rather not have anything to do with you. Sorry, donations are not
tax deductible. ( If you want me to have a tax-exempt status, help make it
so.)
To
those people who have contributed, in time, talent, interviews, images or
funds, the combat veterans and I thank you. If you have donated stories,
maps, images or time,or have assisted me in any way, the Veterans and
I thankyou.
Paul Whitman |
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