There are four main areas of the site; Residents, Business
and Development, Municipal
Hall and Visitors.
From the drop-down menus at the top of the page, you can
access a number of areas within each of those four sections.
Within each section you can also access text links located
on the left-hand side of each page.
Searching the Saanich Web Site
To search the Saanich website, click the Search link
at the top of each web page. This will take you to the Search
page where you can enter your search criteria. A quick search
box is available from the home page.
Viewing The Saanich Web Site
This website has been designed to be viewed at a screen resolution
of 800x600.
- Minimum browser requirements for PC users are:
- Netscape 6.0, Internet Explorer 5.5, and Firefox 1.0.4.
- Some web applications require newer versions to work properly.
- For MAC the minimum requirements are:
- For Mac OS 9: Wamcom version 2003-07-23, or Netscape 7.02
- For Mac OS X: Safari 1.2, Mozilla 1.6, or Netscape 7.1 , Internet Explorer 5.2 is funtional but currently not advised.
Printing Pages
Web pages on the Saanich web site will print without graphics
or navigation. Simply print the page from your browser. The
page will automatically be formatted for the printer.
PDF Documents
Some documents on our web site are in Portable Document Format
(PDF), and require Adobe Reader (a file viewer) in order to
read the document. If you do not have this viewer installed,
you may download it for free from the
Adobe website.
If you find yourself viewing a blank white screen after clicking
on a PDF file link try using the 'refresh' or 'reload' command.
(Using the browser menu go to View->Refresh/Reload,
or use the icon beside the stop button on the toolbar).
Alternatively, you may need to upgrade
your version of Adobe Reader.
Some of our PDF documents are very large but they have all
been web-enabled, which means that you will receive the first
page of a document while the rest of it continues to download
in the background. This ensures that you, the reader, have
something to view while you are waiting.
There are several factors which affect the download time of
documents, bottlenecks can occur for many reasons in cyberspace
and the speed of the response time is determined by the weakest
link in the chain from the hosting server (where the web site
lives) to your browser. Some of them are:
- the time of day, peak hours are usually evenings where
there are more local users on the internet,
- the user's browser and computer speed,
- the user's connection speed to the internet (eg. Dial-up
vs Cable or ADSL),
- the number of 'nodes' that the data has to travel through
to get from the hosting server to the user's browser,
- the speed of the server hosting the web site and the speed
of that server's connection to the internet.
Examples of Connection Speeds to
the Internet
Speed |
100 KB web page |
1 MB file |
5 MB file |
56.6 kbps Dial-up Modem |
18-20 seconds |
3 minutes |
14-16 minutes |
512 kbps Cable Modem |
1.6-2 seconds |
18-20 seconds |
1-2 minutes |
1 mbps ADSL |
< 1 second |
10-15 seconds |
45-60 seconds |
Cookies
Some areas of our web site use cookies, for example GIS and the
Community Calendar (if you login). Cookies are used in these
instances to track the users requests or recognize their login
information. You have multiple options to deal with
cookies on our site:
- you can set your overall internet security to Medium
High, or
- if your internet security settings are High you
can use the 'Advanced' tab to override cookies and 'always
allow session cookies' while still blocking other cookies,
or
- if your internet security settings are High you
can use the 'Edit Web Sites' option to add this web site
and 'Allow' cookies for www.saanich.ca
Virtual Tours
Our virtual tours use Java Applets, which must be enabled in your browser settings, and a pop-up window. You may have to disable pop-up ad blocking software to use this feature.
Navigation buttons and
their meaning: |
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Restart the tour |
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Turn to the left |
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Pause tour |
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Turn to the right |
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Help page |
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