GEORGETOWN EAGLES

This depends on whom you are trying to contact.

To contact someone in the Georgetown Baseball Association, see the GBA website’s Contact GBA page. Note : the GBA website often does not respond; if you cannot get to the site, try again.

To contact a particular team’s coach, assistant coach, or other staff member — for team sites made by Chuck Upsdell — go to the team’s site, and then to that site’s “OUR TEAM : Contacts” page.

To contact this site’s webmaster, send an eMail message to Chuck Upsdell.

This depends on the team.

For a Georgetown Eagles AAA team, go to the AAA Teams page by clicking on the AAA TEAMS menu item. If the team is not listed on that page, then no site for that team is known.

For other GBA teams, go to the GBA site by clicking on the G.B.A. menu item. Note : the GBA website often does not respond; if you cannot get to the site, try again.

For baseball teams belonging to other organizations, check out the INFORMATION : Links page.

Yes: there is a page with a site map which also explains how the menus work.

This site works well with all common modern browsers. There are minor issues with some older browsers: see the Colophon for details. The issues are more severe for Internet Explorer 5 and 6: see the next FAQ, “Why don’t menus work with Internet Explorer 5 or 6 on some PCs?”, for details.

This site offers drop-down menus, but if you have Internet Explorer 5 or 6, you must have JavaScript enabled for the drop-down menus to work. This is because these browsers fail to support a critical element of the standards, and a bit of JavaScript is needed to make up for this.

This issue should affect few users: and even so, the site is still useable when drop-down menus don’t appear, since clicking menu items on the horizontal menu bar go to pages with the same choices as the drop-down menus, adding one extra mouse click when going from page to page. Those affected should consider enabling JavaScript.

White menu items go to pages which are useful to all teams; cyan (bright blue) menu items go to pages with information about the current team. The menu changes when going from one type of page to the other.

Your browser lets you configure how large text should normally appear in web pages. This website normally uses the size you configured. Many sites, however, use a size smaller than you configured, and if this smaller size were too small, you may have reconfigured your browser to enlarge the text: if you did so, however, text in sites like this one would then appear too large.

This is the size you configured your browser to use.

Text size problems would not exist if all sites sized text alike, but they don’t: many, like this one, use the size you configured; many use a size about one step smaller; and many use a size which is unrelated to how you configured your browser. The text size therefore varies from site to site.

The size here was increased in Nov 2008 to what you see now, in this section of the site and in the 2008 and 2009 team sites, in order to conform with modern website design practices.

This site’s designer suggests that you configure your browser to use a font size in which this text is easy to read, and in which this text is also easy to read. (The smaller size is often used in menus, sidebars, footnotes, etc.) If this makes text too small on other sites, you could use your browser’s zoom function, if it has one, to enlarge the other site’s text. One hopes that, in the future, zooming will become less needed as more sites correctly honour your browser’s configuration.

This site offers some documents which require programs which some people do not have. Examples of such documents are Adobe Acrobat (.PDF), Microsoft Excel (.XLS), and Microsoft Word (.DOC) documents. If you do not have the program normally required, however, you can get free programs which will let you view and print those documents. This site has a page telling you how to get free Document Viewers which will enable you to read those documents.

Note : documents offered by sites on the Internet are usually in Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) format, which you can read using the Adobe Reader (often called the Acrobat Reader); if you do not have this program, you should get it. Caution : Adobe will probably try to trick you into installing more than just the Adobe Reader, so at each step in the installation procedure, be careful to decline installation of other things.

If you print web pages on this site, some things will not be printed. The page banner, borders, background, menus, and decorative items are not printed, because they are not needed on printed pages. Also, background colours are not printed unless there is a very good reason, and text is plain black on white, because this reduces your printer costs, especially if you have an ink-jet printer.

The fundamental reason is that some locations are known by several names, which can cause confusion. This site tries to prevent confusion by using names which are consistent and unambiguous. There is a page telling you more about this.

This site has a page telling you how to enable JavaScript.