After years of frustrating duplicity and due to the decreasing popularity of the Netscape browser and its continued instability and unreliability as a platform, it is no longer time efficient or cost productive to continue to program our Website pages to meet its hyper-technical (and unnecessary) idiosyncrasies. Therefore, as of January 1, 2002, we will no longer program our pages for Netscape's unnecessary requirements to be compatible with our site and to be a user (and webmaster) friendly application. Please accept our apologies if sometimes you, as a Netscape user, encounter a page that isn't correctly presented as it would be with, say, Internet Explorer.

We realize, like yourself, there are still a few internet users who are loyal to this product and do not desire to change browsers. We respect that. We simply ask that you respect our reasons for this policy change in programming our Site.

We also realize there are other browser users besides Netscape and Internet Explorer users who also are satisfied with their application. However, "Reports indicate that usage of MSIE has steadily risen over the past 18 months, going from 64.6 percent on Feb. 8, 1999 (to over 80% at present). Netscape users fell to a new low of 13.9 percent during this same time period, and "other" browser users numbered merely .02 percent." - Developer News. This duplicity has been a nightmare for webmasters and programmers for years, spending countless, costly, and unnecessary additional hours making sure that a site's pages are compatible for cross platform display.

Although we realize it is not perfect, however, with the accessibility to Internet Explorer 5.0+ and its dominance as the number one browser of choice (it's free), and for the above stated reasons, we recommend it for best viewing and use of our site. (Here is a typical one day breakdown of users of our site.)