ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR AOL USERS

If you are using the AOL web browser, please read this important message as it relates to the quality of the images you will see on our web site. If you have graphics compression turned "on" on an AOL internal browser (the default setting), some images in this web site will look fuzzy or have foreign colors and shapes contained within the image.

Click on AOL keyword: Webmaster Info For more information or read below for directions.

Directions on How To Turn Off Image Compression On America Online
If you are viewing the our web site using the AOL browser, please make sure that the web graphics compression is turned off. If you leave the compression on, some of the photos in the web site will appear distorted. Please follow the directions below before entering our web site site. Disabling the image compression will ensure that you are viewing the site in the best possible way and experience our rich graphical interfaces and photography.

Turning Web Graphics Compression off in AOL 4.0

1. Click "My AOL" on the icon bar across the top of the window. Select "Preferences.
2. When the "Preferences" window opens, click the "WWW" icon. In the Internet Properties window that comes up, select the "Web Graphics" tab and uncheck the "Use Compressed Graphics" box. Click the "Apply" button at the bottom right of that window and click "OK" to close the window.
3. In the "Preferences" window again, click the "Graphics" icon. Change the "JPEG Compression quality:" to 0. Click "OK" to close the window.
   You should now be able to enter our web site and experience its graphics in full quality.

If you have visited the our web site with your graphics compression on, and wish to view the site with high quality photography and images, and uncompressed graphics, you need to empty your previously viewed internet files:

1. Click "My AOL" on the icon bar across the top of the window. Select "Preferences."
2. When the "Preferences" window opens, click the "WWW" icon. In the Internet Properties window that comes up, select the "Advanced" tab.
3. In the section labeled "Temporary Internet files," click the "Settings ..." button once, then click the "Empty Folder ..." or "Purge Cache" button once. Click "Yes" once to empty the folder and remove previously viewed files.
4. Click "OK" to close the two windows. Then close the "Preferences" window.
   
   You should be able to enter our web site and experience its graphics with uncompressed graphics.