We use "Simgram™ images" on our home page to simulate real Voxgram® images. These are animated GIF files. They should be moving! If they aren't, please wait... each is about 70 kBytes and could take several seconds to load through a slow network connection. If they still don't move, maybe you have blocked animations?
Browsers and firewalls can be set to block animations, including the Simgram™ images on this web site. We can't provide details for every version of every browser and firewall…
• Internet Explorer 6 and 7 on Windows have a setting:
Tools > Internet Options… > Advanced > Multimedia > Play animations in web pages
• Internet Explorer 5.1 on Mac has a setting:
Edit > Preferences… > Web Browser > Web Content > Page Content > Animate GIFs > Allow Looping
• Netscape 7 / Mozilla 1.2 on Mac has a setting:
Edit > Preferences… > Privacy & Security > Images > Animated images should loop
• ZoneAlarm Pro 3.5 has a setting:
Privacy > Ad Blocking > Custom > Animation
Other possible solutions —
Update your browser.
Clear your browser's cache.
Check if you see animations on other web pages.
If only our animations give you problems, please email us.
The Simgram™ images on our gallery page are small (6 kByte) previews of QuickTime VR "object movies". You can interact with these Simgram images, moving up/down and left/right, but each QTVR file is over ten times larger than each of our animated GIFs. Each of the full-size files will load into its own window when you click the link below its preview.
To load and then interact with these images you will need QuickTime VR, which should install and run itself automatically. If that fails, download it free from Apple's QuickTime site (you don't need iTunes or the "Pro" version).
All the other movies are animated GIFs.
This web site looks best at 1,024x768 pixels or higher, but it is usable at 800x600.
It's been extensively tested on several versions of Microsoft Windows with Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
It uses HTML Frames, so you'll need at least Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape 4. And it uses a little JavaScript/ECMAScript for non-essential cosmetic features
Our site is hand-coded in pure XHTML 1.0 (strict, except for the use of frames and targets, and with valid CSS version 1 style sheets), following the general guidance of "HTML for the World Wide Web, 5th Ed. with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide", ISBN 0-321-13007-3, Elizabeth Castro, Peachpit Press, 2003.
It was created under Microsoft Windows XP Pro, using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Ingyu Kang's Crimson Editor 3.70, Adobe Photoshop/ImageReady 7, and our own proprietary Simgram™ image generation software.
The client-side map on our contacts page is based on one by Chris Ferry, Carl Erickson, and Evan Blaisdell of the Penn State Meteorology Department. Thanks!