Site Navigation Tips

Here are a few suggestions to help you explore the site:

Top Navigation

The options such as Home on the horizontal navigation bar just below the banner allow you to chose main sections of the site.

Side Menu

The listing on the left provides links to articles. Hovering the mouse over a link will show a description of the article. Clicking will show the article in the central area of the site.

Gallery

The left menu is also used to display photo and product gallery categories. Clicking on the link will provide a set of thumbnail images in the main area of the site.

Site Map

The Site Map provides a list of the active content on the site grouped by type and category. Simple sites will only list articles. Other sites may also use photo and product galleries and reviews.

Search

You can enter a word, phrase or part of a word into the text field and click the Search button to search through the site content. The search mechanism is much simpler than is used by search engines such as Google, so single words or specific phrases work best.

Translation

Regular articles will have a link to Translate to Other Languages. The link uses the Babelfish translation utility originally provided by AltaVista and now provided by Yahoo. Along with search engines and email, this is very impressive technology! The translations are not perfect and will often amuse native speakers. Still, the translations are usually useful and something of a miracle to even come close using machine translation on the fly. Wow! You can click here to translate these tips.

Resizing Text

All browsers will allow you to increase the size of the text in the browser by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the + key. Holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the - key will reduce the size of the text. Ctrl key and pressing the 0 key will return the text to normal size. Apple users can use the CMD or Apple key.