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Welcome to the MAS Advisory Services,
Inc. Information Center. We have
compiled and continue to compile those
hard to find items relative to your
business, personal life, as well as a
few entertainment muses that we found
interesting. The web site for MAS
is much like any other site. An
introduction on the home page, an
about-meet the team page which tells you
a bit about MAS and its employees, a way
for you to contact us either via a
secure form or by email, our local
partners, how to find us, and lastly the
e-store. The best part of our web
site is the Information Center.
That is where you are now. We do what
we can to keep you within the site as
much as possible. That way you can
take in everything we offer.
However, occasionally, due to the way
other web sites are constructed, you
might flip into a new window or tab
(browser dependant). If it all
works correctly, our site is still
turned 'on' so all you have to do is
close the tab/window to the other site
and the MAS site is still there in your
browser. How cool is that?
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MENU STRUCTURE To
the left is our menu structure for the
Info Center. Our goal has always
been to minimize the number of mouse
clicks so you can get to the information
as quickly as possible. Now, with
that said, there are going to be some
sites we direct you to that will put up
a number of roadblocks to that goal.
Due to legal issues such as copyright
legislation, treaties, and other similar
processes, we cannot simply copy and
paste the information. Instead, we
use a technology defined by i-frames.
When you make a menu selection, some
pages we have created and are part of
our web site will come into a window
similar to this one. At other
times, we will call for the external web
site to serve up a specific page to this
window. As mentioned previously,
some web sites won't let us do that and
they force your browser into a new
browser tab or a completely new window.
We try to keep those situations to a
minimum. We employ PDF technology as
well. All PDFs should display in
this window if it is on our site. The
menu system is rather unique. It
is accordion style. You open the
accordion by placing your mouse over the
dark band. Then click with the
left key. That section will open.
You could, for instance, close the
section before moving to the next
session; however that isn't necessary,
as when you move to the next section,
the previous section will close
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SCROLL BARS
Because we are using i-frame technology,
there could be two to three scroll bars.
The first vertical scroll bar (the one
that goes up and down) will control the
outside page or the overall page.
Some browser will display that scroll
bar in colors. Firefox and some
others will not. The second vertical
scroll bar (if it shows) will control
the scroll effect of the i-frame.
And sometimes, depending on your monitor
and screen resolutions, you may have to
use the main page or outer scroll bar to
get to the bottom of the window for the
horizontal scroll bar on the i-frame.
Not all web sites will fit into the
i-frame which is why there is a
horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of
the i-frame. We figured you wanted
to get to the information which
generally shows on the left to the
middle of most web site pages.
And, if you want to go more in-depth on
that web site page, you can scroll to
the right and back to the left.
It's better to do it on the i-frame
because not every web site page is
programmed for your monitor.
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GENERAL
PRINTING Printing of the i-frame
page is easy. Sending it to your
email address is also easy. And if
you do not have Adobe Reader, we have
simplified that as well for most pages
that we can control. There are two
ways you can print something in the
i-frame. For PCs, place your
cursor within the i-frame and do either
a right mouse click. A separate
menu should pop up with the print
function. Now we know, depending
on the printer and printer driver you
have installed that all pages should fit
on a standard width of paper - 8 inches
to 8¼ inches wide. If the
i-frame page is super wide, you can set
your printer driver to landscape mode
which is 10½ inches wide for printing.
For MACs, I believe you can do something
similar. The alternative is (after you
place your cursor in the i-frame) to
either do a ctrl-P on the PC or Apple-P
on the Apple computers. You press
and hold the first key while you tap the
second key (P) then release the first
key. That should bring up your
print menu. Similar functions exist
for the Linux and Unix systems as well
as most other browsers and operating
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PDF PRINTING
Printing for PDFs is relatively simple.
PDFs present you with menus to let you
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