Technical Information

Using BBI and the Web Sites Tools 

Computer specifications

This system work best with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5+ or better on an IBM compatable computer. Other browsers are sufficient to view the site although some formating distortions may be present. A variety of redundancies have ben built into the design to allow for some of these cross browser issues. For example both Top, Left and Bottom Navigation are provided for browsers that do not see the drop dowm menus. 

Updates are being developed to reduce the cross browser compatability issues.

If you have access to IE 5+, all you need is this browser to view the site properly and have total access to the built-in Page Editing tools. IE is a FREE down loadable program availiable from Microsoft.

Cookies

This system used cookies which are small files that reside in your computer that let your Internet browser remeber your Log-in from page to page. Cookies also help you to Log-in by prompting you with your Log-in name after you type the first few letters. These cookies do not send information from your computer.

If you get a "Your computer does not have cookies enabled" message, please refresh your screen or re-boot. Most of the time that is all that is required.

Server Security and Back-up

When you see the GeoTrust certificate you will know that all information is being transmitted with Secure Soket Layer (SSL) and stored on the server with 128 bit encryption. The server has mirrored drives and is backed up weekly. 

Published Content is emailed back to the authors in most instances. Please keep these copies in case there is a catastrophic problem. Also it is suggested that you keep your own copy archive copy of every piece of Content,  Article,  and Image in case there is a major catostrophic problem.