Useful information about the site
The following information gives a general overview of information relevant to this website.
We have tried to make this website as user friendly as possible and have thoroughly tested it in the latest browsers. Some older browsers are not able to take advantage of current technology such as javascript and cascading style sheets and present information in a linear fashion. If you experience any problems, or think the page is not displaying, or working as it should, we suggest that you upgrade to a later version of the software. Please note these are only suggestions and SYPA will not be held responsbile for any technical problems arising from this site.

If you click on the relevant browser shown below you will be able to download the latest version of the browser.

Firefox (Mozilla)
Google Chrome (not available for Mac users yet)
Internet Explorer (Microsoft)
Netscape
Opera
Safari (Apple)

The site is best viewed in 1024 x 768 screen resolution using a High or True Colour setting.

Downloadable documents
Most documents on this site are in PDF format. It is therefore recommended that you have Pdf reader installed on your PC. Pdf reader can be installed from the Adobe Site .

If you have difficulties obtaining information from a pdf you can use Adobe's Web-based conversion service to produce an HTML version.

We appreciate that it must be extremely frustrating to not be able to access information through no fault of you own but we ask you to be patient whilst we continue to work on improving the accessibility of our site.

If you find any of our downloadable documents present a barrier to accessing information because of a disability please contact us giving details of the document in question, the problems encountered and what we could do to help.

Downloading Plug-ins
Flash is used to create animated effects on our website. If you don't have Flash Plug-in installed go to the Adobe Flash Player Download Centre .

Click through any dialog boxes that appear and Flash will be installed automatically onto your computer.

If you are using Netscape - you will need to click on the Download Now button.
A box will appear asking you where to save the Installer.
Save the Installer to your desktop and wait for it to download completely.