LuxSci provides a standard full-featured WebMail and members' portal to all of its clients. For the sake of usability and feature richness, this full-featured portal makes use of graphics, cookies, JavaScript, and some features of modern web browsers to enhance the user experience.

Unfortunately, the very requirements that make the full-featured portal good-looking and easy to use also have their down sides. The Xpress member's portal is the solution to these concerns:

• Blazing Speed: The Xpress portal uses very few graphics and no JavaScript. Its pages are thus much smaller in size, faster to download, and faster to render in your web browser. If you have a slow Internet connection, the Xpress portal will seem much faster than the full portal!
• Maximum Compatibility: The Xpress will work with most web browsers - even old ones and non-standard ones. This is because the Xpress portal does not use JavaScript, cookies, dynamic HTML, and does not "really" require cascading style sheets (although these make it look nice).
• Privacy Concerns: The Xpress portal does not use cookies at all. If you are concerned about privacy on the web, you can disable cookies in your web browser and still use the Xpress portal without any trouble.
• Security Concerns: The Xpress portal does not use JavaScript at all. If you are concerned about security on the web, you can disable JavaScript in your web browser and still use the Xpress portal without any trouble. The Xpress portal, like the full portal, runs over SSL so that all of your data is encrypted.
• More Security Concerns: For usability reasons, our full (normal) portal allows you to enable some things, like automatically viewing HTML attachments inline in your email message display pages, that may leave you open to attacks on your web browser. The Xpress portal disables features, such as inline HTML viewing, so that it is always safe to read your email in Xpress WebMail! You would have to explicitly open an attachment to put yourself at risk, but reading and previewing messages is safe.

Admittedly, the Xpress portal might not look quite as slick or be quite as easy to use as the full portal (and some functions are not available in the Xpress portal); however, you have the option of using either one or both of these interfaces at any time -- it's totally up to you.