function Constants () {

	// the constants...here's where the project
	// specific constants are entered :-)

	// the name of the banner image
	this.bannerName = "/hippo/gif/hippo_banner.png";

	// the area tags on the banner image where
	// new Area( SHAPE, COORDS, HREF, ALT, TITLE)
	this.area = new Array();
	this.area[0] = new Area( "rect", "665,10,745,80",
	                         "http://www.eol.ucar.edu/",
			         "Go to EOL", "Go to EOL");
	this.area[1] = new Area( "rect", "10,10,140,80",
	                         "http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/hippo/",
			         "Go To HIPPO", "Go To HIPPO");

	// the image tags that are the tabs
	// new Image( SRC, ALT, WIDTH, HEIGHT )
	this.image = new Array();
        this.image[0] = new tabImage( "/hippo/gif/home_off.gif",
                                   "Catalog Home", 106, 35);
        this.image[1] = new tabImage( "/hippo/gif/report_off.gif",
                                   "Project Reports", 106, 35);
        this.image[2] = new tabImage( "/hippo/gif/product_off.gif",
                                   "Operational Data Products", 106, 35);
        this.image[3] = new tabImage( "/hippo/gif/model_off.gif",
                                   "Model/Forcast Products", 114, 35);
        this.image[4] = new tabImage( "/hippo/gif/research_off.gif",
                                   "Research Data Products", 106, 35);
        this.image[5] = new tabImage( "/hippo/gif/mission_off.gif",
                                   " Missions", 106, 35);
        this.image[6] = new tabImage( "/hippo/gif/other_off.gif",
                                   "Tools and misc. info", 106, 35);

	// the tabs
	this.tab = new Array();
	// new Anchor( HREF, TITLE )
	// here the title is the above images and href is 
	// the what happens when the user clicks on the image
	this.tab[0] = new Anchor('/hippo/index.html', 
	                         this.image[0].fetchHTML() );
	this.tab[1] = new Anchor('/cgi-bin/hippo/report/index', 
	                         this.image[1].fetchHTML() );
	                         //'<img src="'+this.image[1].src+'">' );
	this.tab[2] = new Anchor('/cgi-bin/hippo/ops/index', 
	                         this.image[2].fetchHTML() );
	                         //'<img src="'+this.image[2].src+'">' );
	this.tab[3] = new Anchor('/cgi-bin/hippo/model/index', 
	                         this.image[3].fetchHTML() );
	                         //'<img src="'+this.image[3].src+'">' );
	this.tab[4] = new Anchor('/cgi-bin/hippo/research/index', 
	                         this.image[4].fetchHTML() );
	                         //'<img src="'+this.image[4].src+'">' );
	this.tab[5] = new Anchor('/hippo/missions/missions.html', 
	                         this.image[5].fetchHTML() );
	                         //'<img src="'+this.image[5].src+'">' );
	this.tab[6] = new Anchor('/hippo/other/index.html', 
	                         this.image[6].fetchHTML() );
	                         //'<img src="'+this.image[6].src+'">' );
}