Intra-Site Navigation for Topic Areas
The topic areas within castine.me.us have internal navigation elements listed in a blue navigation area on the left hand side of each page to help you move to other pages within that topic area.

Back Button
In most cases, you need to use your browser's "Back" button to return to a page you previously visited.

External Sites
In nearly all cases, when a hyperlink takes you off the Castine web site, you will see a message informing you of this.

File Formats

PDF Files (Acrobat)
Some documents on the Castine web site are in Portable Document Format (PDF). These cross-platform documents ensure that users will be able to obtain publications in their original format regardless of what platform, software, or configurations they use to access the Internet. In order to view PDF documents, however, users must first download the free Acrobat Reader software, which lets you view, navigate through, and print PDF documents.

You can follow this link to load the free Adobe Reader software.

Flash Files
Some documents on the Castine web site are in Macromedia's Flash format (SWF). Flash provides for the delivery and viewing of a number of graphical formats includeing video.

You can follow this link to load the free Flash Player software.

Accessibility Modem Connections
The Castine web pages are designed to download as quickly as possible by users on modem connections to the Internet. To help our web pages render more quickly, our current standard is to include accurate "Height" and "Width" for all our images and to optimize our graphics for the smallest possible file size without comprising visual quality. In addition, we avoid using tables that are more than about 2 computer screens (or roughly 800 pixels) long, because browsers cannot render information in a table until the entire table has been parsed and laid out. Restricting the size of tables on our pages speeds their display for users.

PDF Files
Visitors using screen reading devices generally cannot directly read documents in PDF format. However, Adobe Systems provides a free translation service through their Access server that will translate PDF files to web pages (HTML documents). This can be used in one of three ways:

The user's browser can be configured to use this service as a helper application, so that every time they click on a link to a PDF document, this document is automatically sent to the Access server and returned as a web page.
The user can go to the Access server and fill out a form. When this form is submitted, the server will go get the PDF document, translate it, and return it to the user.
The user can send an email message to the Access server, giving the address of the document to be translated. The server will then get this document and translate it to either a web page or a text (ASCII) document. Note that this is the only one of the three options that also gives the ability to produce a text document from the PDF file.
The user can send an email message to the Access server, giving the address of the document to be translated. The server will then get this document and translate it to either a web page or a text (ASCII) document. Note that this is the only one of the three options that also gives the ability to produce a text document from the PDF file.