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Well done, you have successfully navigated here, so you are familiar with clicking the primary button on the mouse (normally the left one), whilst hovering the curser over a 'LINK', which may be underlined text or an image. This guide introduces a few more features. Internet Browsing The site is designed on Internet Explorers 6&7 and tested on Firefox 2, (referred to from now as IE6, IE7 & FFx). Over 90% of visitors use a version of IE, FFx is next but then Opera can mask its identity. Over plain text in IE & FFx the curser is an I, (for insertion point), a hand over a link, and a slanting arrow any where else. Clicking the second mouse button displays a sub-menu of actions depending on what the curser's hovering over (the target..) From now on the button click operations are referred to as:- Select target; Primary; Pop target; Secondary Examples: Select Menu Bar / File; hover the curser over the File Tab (it changes) and click the Primary button to drop down list of file actions. Pop Menu Bar / File; Still over the File Tab, click the Secondary button to drop down a list of toolbar options. Useful Navigation tools are the Back and Foward Buttons. IE6 (Browser's Menu Bar) FFx  Back Forward Refresh Back Forward Refresh If the navigation buttons are not displayed then Pop Menu Bar In IE6 & 7 look for the Standard toolbar, in FFx, Navigation. Selecting the button or box reverses the On / Off latching. Selecting the Back Arrow Icon displays the previous page visited. (The forward arrow becomes coloured) Selecting the Forward Arrow Icon displays the next page visited. Selecting either of the Down Arrow Icons displays a list of pages visited ordered by time visited. The third button shown is Refresh:- To save you money and my transmission resources, pages are saved in your machine for retrieval rather than reloaded each revisit. Select Refresh icon to download the latest copy from the source. Links (Generally underlined and coloured) Word Links are placed at the top of related pages for ease of jumping between them, but they could also appear within the body of the page. At the top of this page:- Home Page links to the Welcome page, BCBA, the Men's and BCWBA, the Women's outdoor root indexes. Select a Link and then select the Back Button to return here.
displayed at the bottom of the browser window. Impress people by calling this a URL (= Universal Resource Locator). This link opens up an addressed and subjected email, Try it:- Select gensec, to receive an email back. Received emails may contain attachments, pop filename.ext,  Select the next action from the sub menu. Note who sent it? > pop Sender; Select Add to Address book |
Printing a webpage to a printer Print Preview displays the page as it will look printed. In IE6, IE7 and FFx Select MenuBar / File / Print Preview 
Setting Paper Size IE: Through Page Setup, preview a size change without printing. FFx: Through printer properties at a print session. FFx previews on the last page size it printed so a preview on a different size is unobtainable. Ways around it:- print to an unplugged printer or a file writer (eg. pdf writer). Printing a Page. Portrait A4 (21cm) previewed at 100% zoom uses 794 screen pixels from which we deduce there are 37.8 pxl / cm. Providing the basic text size is set to 16pt, the surrounding box on this page will be 718px wide, giving a 38 pixel (~1cm) margin each side. It will then successfully print on an A4 sheet in portrait mode in these browsers. Setting 16pt. In IE Select MenuBar / View / Text Size = Medium (The IEs preserve this setting for Printing & Previewing.) In FFx Select MenuBar / Tools / Options in the Toolbox Select Content / Default Font Size = 16pt. Also check MenuBar / View / Text Size = Normal. However, FFx resets this to Normal on Printing or Previewing, its scaling feature offering adjustment to the character size. Why 16pt? It's close to 'Medium' in IE's text size settings which allow the observer to adjust the size of letters on the screen. Set it to Larger if this text is too small, but set it back again for printing. The Display Screen Modern monitors have high resolution displays, enabling more information to be displayed in the screen area albeit smaller. To change the setting pop any clear space in the display.  The number of pixels displayed on the screen may be adjusted in the Display Setting Toolbox. Higher numbers allow more information but reduce physical sizes. Scripting Some pages on the site are interactive, reading browser settings for setting their own. For this to be successful, javascript has to enabled. The two lines below differ in content depending on if it is or not. Please Enable Scripting, the functions read information only. To change it in IE6 & IE7 Select MenuBar / Tools / Internet Options, in the toolbox Select Security / Internet / Custom Level Scroll Down and enable or disable Active Scripting. To change it in FFx Select MenuBar / Tools / Options in the Options toolbox Select Content / Enable JavaScript Select Refresh to see the change. |
