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"Teaching people about the world in which we live."
Welcome to the TerraX.org web page! Scroll down this page by using your mouse to move the slider bar on the right, or by pressing the "Page Down" key.
Our site on the World Wide Web is designed by our volunteers and lives on a computer in Seattle, Washington, USA. We strive to keep adding new pages to the site on a regular basis.
TerraX.org is a 501(c)3 educational non profit organization and we use the world wide web to reach YOU, our audience. Our web site contains material that we feel is interesting and relates to the various projects we are working on. Our 501(c)3 determination letter is on-line (page 1, page 2, page 3).
We are supported by donations from the public and corporations, including the teachers and students that use our web site. You may donate on line using a credit card through the Network For Good, 100% of your donation will be used to fund this web site and our other educational programs. We are a 501(c)3 educational non-profit organization and your donation may be tax deductible. Your employer may match your donations, increasing the power of your donation.
We have addressed some of the common questions about our web site in the following sections. If you have other questions or suggestions, please feel free to use our comments page. We would love to hear from you!
The familiar underlined words will take you to other places in the TerraX.org pages. You can then use your "back" button to return to the previous page, or you can use the short cut topics located at the top and bottom of each page. We have also included some icons that link to other pictures and related articles.
In addition to the previous list, some files are available in other formats:
We recommend that you bookmark our Home Page so that you can easily return to what you were looking for if you get sent somewhere unexpected. If a specific topic interests you, please feel free to bookmark that specific page. Our pages rarely move, so you can safely bookmark and link individual pages.
We may occasionally link to other web pages that have information we feel is related to our mission. There are millions of web pages around the world, so you may have to use your program's "back" button to return to the TerraX.org page. Likewise we appreciate it when other sites link to ours, but you may have to use the "back" button to return.
If you have a web site and would like to link to ours, please feel free to go ahead. We rarely move our web pages, so you may link directly to the topic that interests you.
We are developing a co-branding mechanism so that other sites can use our pages while retaining their own look and feel. If you are a web provider interested our cobranding program, please contact our webmaster.
The TerraX.org web site is designed to take advantage of some of the features of modern browsers, including some formatting enhancements, as well as the Java and JavaScript languages. It should also work well with older browsers. We recommend that you use a newer browser, such as Netscape 6 or Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6. Many places on the World Wide Web use the advanced features of these browsers. We focus on Internet Explorer a bit more because that is the browser most of our visitors use.
Both Netscape and Microsoft offer their latest browsers for FREE download. For more information, visit the Netscape or Microsoft pages.
We tend to design our pages to be used by computers with a 800 by 600 or larger display. The photographs and other pictures also lend themselves to displays with 256 or more colors.
Do you have Java and JavaScript on your computer? We have the answer to that:
If the above statements indicate that your Java or JavaScript is merely turned off, you may turn them on from the network or security menu on your browser's options menu.
We have created some materials for teachers to print out that use Adobe Acrobat. Those files will also have HTML (normal World Wide Web) equivalents, but they will print better if you can use the Adobe Acrobat files. If you do not have it already, a free Acrobat Reader is available from Adobe. This reader works with Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator and Communicator. It is easy for you or your resident computer guru to install.
Our web server's connection to the Internet is very fast, so you should not have delays on our end. We realize that some people have a slow modem connection, and sometimes bottlenecks on the Internet slow everyone down, so we try to keep our pages small enough to load quickly. There are a couple of things that you can do on your end to make web pages load faster for you. By the way, these tips help for all web pages, not just ours.
Well, here's the dreaded legalese paragraph:
All of the TerraX.org web pages, including text and images, are copyrighted by TerraX.org. Some items, such as the names "TerraX.org," and "Spider Sponsor," are also trademarked. Some material may be trademarked or copyrighted by other organizations as well. We intend for educators to use our material in the classroom and other educational environments such as for scout troops or homeschool students. Permission is granted for such educators to reproduce our pages as needed. The TerraX.org name, copyright notice, address, and web address must be included on all reproduced material. Pages should be reproduced in their entirety if at all possible. No web links, text, images or other material may be used in any context that would construe that the material was not created by, or the property of, TerraX.org. Sites with internet access should link to the relevant pages at our site rather than reproduce our copyrighted pages and images. Links to our pages, text, images and other material may not be used out of context, for commercial purposes, or used competitively. If you want to use something, but we've scared you off, please call, e-mail or write, we don't bite!
Acrobat and the Acrobat logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
The TerraX.org mail server is located in Washington State and is protected by Washington State laws. Please do not send e-mail with forged or misleading routing information, or with misleading subject lines as those types of e-mails allow for penalites by Washington law.
We don't make mistakes! Or misspell words. (None of our programs have any errors either ;-)
Okay, so sometimes a little something does sneak in an surprise us. If so, and if you find it, we want to hear about it. Please use our comments form to let us know about the unexpected. When doing so, please include the URL (the http://TerraX.org/whatever thing) of the offending page. If you don't know the URL, please describe what it is as best you can. Thanks. We appreciate it.
Please enjoy our web site. We have put a lot of thought into making it interesting and we hope that you will learn something from us and have fun at the same time. If you have comments or suggestions, please use our comments form.
Signed,
The TerraX.org Staff
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