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Browsers the pages have been test with




AgriGator pages have been tested with NCSA Mosaic 2.0, Netscape Navigator 1.22,
and VMS Lynx 2.4.  Many pages make use of tables.



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Names, Acronyms, and Abbreviations






Ag          
An abbreviation for AGriculture.  Pronunciation rhymes with "rag."



AgriGator   
A combination of the words AGRIculture and alliGATOR.



Alachua     
The county in which Gainesville is located.  Usually pronounced "ah-LAH-chew-ah," 
                    although "ah-LAH-chew-AY" is usually how the town with the same name is pronounced.



AREC        
Agricultural Research and Education Center.  Pronounced "AY-reck."



CES         
Cooperative Extension Service.



Extension   
Refers to the cooperative extension service arm of IFAS.



FAES        
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station.



FAIRS       
Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System.



FCES        
Florida Cooperative Extension Service.



Gator       
A short form of the word alliGATOR.



Gainesville 
The city in Florida where the UF campus and IFAS' main offices are located.  Usually abbreviated to 
                    "GNV," sometimes to "G'ville."



Howdy       
A greeting, from "How do ye," meaning Hello or How are you doing.
                    Pronounced "HOW-dee".



ICON        
IFAS Computer Network.  Pronounced "EYE-con."



IFAS        
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.  Usually pronounced "EYE-fiss" or "EYE-fuss."



IP/FANR     
International Programs for Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources.



REC         
Research and Education Center.  Pronounced "RECK" or spelled out.



SUS         
State University System.



UF          
University of Florida.



USDA        
United States Department of Agriculture.



Y'all       
A combination of the words You and ALL.  Pronounced "yall."



WWW         
World Wide Web, a standard of communications used to provide you with the connection to this information. 
                    Also abbreviated as W3.




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Buttons and Boxes



Users of Mosaic or other graphics programs will see pictures, buttons, and boxes.  Users of 
text-based programs (such as LYNX) will only see text descriptions in place of the graphics.


While not everyone may be using a mouse, the term "click" will be used as the generic term 
to mean "select" in whatever means your program provides.


The IFAS AgriGator has two types of clickable items:


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 Buttons.  One or more of these will appear at the bottom of a page:






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 Boxes.  These are items such as maps, where you can click on a part of 
the map to see local information.  You must be using a graphical 
viewer to be able to click on a section of a map.


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Frequently Asked Questions/Where to Find Information




All web pages with a "Contact" button at the bottom of the page, with
an e-mail address of "wwweb@WWW.IFAS.UFL.EDU", are received by us, the
friendly managers of the IFAS web server, and managers of the pages with
the word "AgriGator" in the title.  We'll gladly answer questions about
the server and AgriGator, take suggestions for improving the pages, and
fix and add links.  As for the ag stuff, you'll probably want to talk
with the real people who actually studied the subject you're interest in.
We've tried to help you find them by providing the information that follows...



Further information on a subject


We just manage our World Wide Web server, we don't have agricultural
information at our site, except for the notices about when our offices
will be sprayed for ants.  Please contact the specific department that
covers the subject you have a question about.



E-mail addresses


Both the 
University of Florida's online directory  and 

IFAS' online directory are available.  If an e-mail address
isn't provided for someone, you will have to use postal mail, because 
what you see is the most recent information available (in other words,
you're looking at the actual databases, not just duplicates made for
Web use).



Admission information/course information


We maybe have a 1977 course catalog in a closet somewhere.  You'll get 
more recent information if you look at these sites:







How to grow something


We can't even grow weeds correctly, so you'll want someone who knows better. 
In the U.S., every county in every state has a 
Cooperative 
Extension Service that provides free agricultural information.  They 
have access to specialists,
can reference national information, can provide publications, and are very
knowledgeable about local agricultural concerns.  The phone number may be
found in your phone book in the government offices section for your county,
under "Cooperative Extension Services."



Import/export laws


The only law we know is "red means stop; green means go."  Otherwise, 
every country has a
main agricultural
department (for example, in the U.S. it's the
USDA) that you can contact
for information about laws and research.



Research information


We've got plenty of data here on Peanuts -- the comic strip.  For all
other ag areas, contact your local 
Cooperative 
Extension Service office, an IFAS 
research center, 
or your local library which can reference national research information and
point you in the right direction.



Diagnosing a problem


After a day in the computer basement, we have a problem figuring out what
that "glowing, yellow ball in the sky" is.  You should contact your local 
Cooperative Extension Service office instead -- these folks can answer 
your questions.



Pages with link/content errors


If it's our page, we'll fix it; if it's someone else's in IFAS, we'll
forward the information on to them.  (Please provide the http: reference
to the page, otherwise we have no way of knowing which one you mean.)



Finding something on the web


While we're still looking for the "Any Key" on our keyboards, please check 
out the efficient search tools 
provided by the AgriGator home page.



Now, if you think there is some IFAS information that should be made 
available on the Web but currently isn't, and you don't know who to e-mail 
the message to, send it to us, and we'll forward your request to the 
appropriate department.



Phone numbers


The phone number for general UF information is (352) 392-3261.  For
general IFAS information, call (352) 392-1971.



Also note:  Most phone numbers in the Alachua county area
(including Gainesville) had their area code changed in December 1995
from 904 to 352.  The transitional period (where 904 still works)
ends about May 1996.  If you have trouble calling a phone number
in these areas after the transition period, the page manager may not have
updated the area code information, so try 352 instead, and if it works,
please contact the page manager so the information is updated for other
Web users.





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