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About the Web Site

Purpose and Organization | Accessibility | Technical Information

Purpose and Organization

This Web site is intended to be the central location for the public to learn about the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, what it does, and who its partners are. It also provides information about the Alliance priority issues, event announcements, and funding opportunities.

This web site is organized into six sections – Home lays out a brief description of the Gulf of Mexico Alliance. The Supplemental section of the Home page provides a description of the Gulf of Mexico economy and the Mississippi River watershed ; About the Alliance details the history and mission of the Gulf of Mexico Alliance; Governor’s Action Plan provides an explanation of the commitments made by the five gulf coast states for the Gulf of Mexico Alliance; Priority Issues contains detailed descriptions of the principal focus areas and examples of products developed by the Priority Issue Teams; Partnerships shows the state and federal partners that comprise the Gulf of Mexico Alliance; and Publications & Links contains pertinent publications from the Gulf of Mexico Alliance.

Accessibility

Every attempt has been made to make this site compliant with Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Additionally, we have provided a link to a detailed Site Index on every page. This index provides a direct link to all the pages in the site.

Please notify us of any specific accessibility problems that you encounter, or any suggestions you might have on how we could improve the site's access. Please email comments and suggestions to:
goma.webmaster@noaa.gov

Technical Information

Links. External sites that are accessed by these links will launch a new browser session in a single, separate browser window. A limited number of links to non-U.S. government sites are included. Users are notified that they are leaving a U.S. government Web site by a separate page that appears on screen for approximately 20 seconds.

Fonts and Type Sizes. Verdana is the default font for this site; 10 point is the default size. All browsers allow users to select specific fonts and type sizes for display. Some users select large type sizes for ease of reading, or specific fonts for personal tastes. The text and layout should not be adversely affected by a user's selection of alternative fonts and type sizes.

Printing Pages. This site has been designed to ensure simple printing in portrait format.

Downloadable Documents. Some documents are available on this site as downloadable files in Portable Document Format (PDF). These files can be viewed on microcomputers equipped with recent versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free.

There are some known issues with downloading PDF documents, particularly on Windows systems, due to conflicting changes in the way in which Acrobat Reader and various browsers talk to one another. But there is a simple work-around: if you right-click (Windows) or option-click (Macintosh) on the link, the entire file will be sent to your machine, and then you can open it off your own hard drive using Acrobat Reader.

Index. A link to the site index appears on every page. The site index is a complete listing of every page on the site and includes links to each of those pages.

For Further Technical Information. For questions or comments about the technical aspects of this site, e-mail: nos.webadmin@noaa.gov