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Personalize your VHTRC Web Experience

You can personalize the VHTRC News page. If you do, the News Page will welcome you back by name and, more importantly, will mark the items in the "What's New" column on the left that have been added since your last visit. Also, you can enter your e-mail address which will then be entered automatically if you use a form to mail us.

You can also set how external pages will load on the News and the Links pages for this and future sessions. If you check the box below, all of the external links on these two pages will load in a new browser window. ...More information

This function puts a "cookie" on your computer. All the information in the cookie stays on your computer. If you use the new e-mail from, it will read your name and e-mail address from the cookie. This won't happen unless you want it to. We are not reading the cookie without your knowledge. At this point, the only information that the cookie is keeping track of is your name, e-mail address, and the last time you visited the site. If this bothers you, just hit the go back to the News Page link. If you are registered and you want to become unregistered, just hit the Lose Your Cookies button below. If you want to change any information, just enter the new stuff below. (If you are currently registered, the name and e-mail address you are using will display below.)

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More Information about Loading Pages into New Windows

Checking the box above changes the result of clicking on a link on the News and Links pages. When checked, external linked pages open in a new window. When you uncheck the box, the linked pages open in the same window (this is the default). (This feature does not change the behavior of linking to a page on the VHTRC site. These pages will always load in the same window.)

So What's the Point? Normally, when you click on a link, the new page is loaded in the same window. The starting page goes away and the new page is displayed. To go back to the starting page, you use your browser's BACK button.

What's Wrong with That? If you don't want to go back to the starting page, then nothing is wrong with that. But if you want to go back to the starting page, it can be a long journey if you have surfed the new site or even visited third or fourth sites. You can get lost. If you keep the starting window open, it's like keeping your finger at your place in a book while you consult other pages. You can flip back to the starting page more easily.

Why not Open a New Window All the Time? The new window has problems also. When you open a new window, its BACK button doesn't work. You have to close or minimize that new window to get back to the starting point. Also, you can end up with a proliferation of open windows. Finally, if the new window opens full screen (this happens with Netscape frequently) you might not even know that you are in a new window. You will click your back button fruitlessly and think nasty thoughts about the web designer.

Choice. So the VHTRC site gives you a choice. You can have it either way. Commercial sites often make you open a new window for external links. These sites hate to let you go, and want to keep their window open. We let you choose to do that or not. Take you pick! You can change the option on the page for this session only, or you can change your personal settings so that your choice is retained for future sessions.

How to Set This Option

To set the option only for one page and only for the one time it loads, just check or uncheck the box on the page.

To set the option for all the pages that have this feature and for future visits, use the check box on this page.

Currently, this feature is available only on the News and Links pages.

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