About this site
This section is aimed at giving you a better understanding of how to improve your browsing experience when flicking through the pages of our website. You could make visiting our site more enjoyable by changing certain browser settings and downloading newer versions of free software that is required for full website functionality. If you want to contact us about the site, please email email us
Installing Dax font
British Study Centres Group uses a font called Dax for all our published materials including our web site. This font is not distributed freely, so when you view our web site you may see Arial or another default font. This can lead to some parts of the web pages not displaying correctly. If you are a recognised agent of British Study Centres, you can download and install the Dax font from our agents area.
Microsoft, though, has developed a technology where web sites can display fonts not available on the browser's computer. This embedded technology is called Microsoft WEFT.
This allows Microsoft's Internet Explorer to display Dax without installing the font.
To check if your browser is displaying the Dax font compare this image of some text in Dax with with the 'live' text below:
This is Dax font (text)?
If they look the same, then the site is displaying the Dax font correctly.
By default, however, IE7 blocks the embedded Dax font in the privacy settings as a cookie. To change this, please:
- Double click the privacy icon on the bottom left-hand corner of your screen (see image below)
- You will see http://wiccol.demonweb.co.uk/weft/DAXREGU1.eot listed as a blocked site.
- This address is for the Dax Regular font in WEFT on our host server. You can unblock it by right clicking on it and selecting 'Always allow cookies for this site'.
You could also enable Dax by adding the site (http://wiccol.demonweb.co.uk/) to the 'allowed sites' by clicking 'Tools' > 'Internet Options' > 'Privacy' > 'Sites'.
This is the only cookie we use on our site.
Updating your browser
If you are running an older version of one or another browser, such as Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 or Netscape 4.x, 6.0 etc, why not download a free update and improve the way many websites are displayed? The links to download areas of most commonly used up-to-date browsers are listed below:
Using ClearType with Windows XP & IE 7
You can significantly improve the appearance of fonts on your screen if you are using Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7. In order to do this, you need to enable the ClearType effect by carrying out the following actions:
Windows XP settings:
- Right-click the Desktop and choose 'Properties' from the menu
- Select 'Appearance' tab
- Click 'Effects' button
- In the Effects window tick the option 'Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts'
- Select 'ClearType' from the drop-down menu below and click 'OK'
Internet Explorer 7 settings:
- Select 'Internet Options' from main menu
- Select 'Advanced' tab
- Tick the 'Always use ClearType for HTML' option and click 'OK'
Viewing PDF documents
Most of the documents available for download from this site, such as Brochure or Application Form, are in PDF format. If you have problems viewing these documents, you need to download and install a new version of Adobe Reader:
