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You can see the site map for these Web pages, an outline of almost everything all in one place. |
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How To Navigate this Site This purpose of this page is to make it as easy as possible for you to navigate your way from place to place on this Web site, but if I've done everything else right then you don't really need to read further. You can search this site and see the site map, above, or you can keep reading.
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Top and bottom nav bars |
Top and bottom Universal nav bars. At the top and bottom of every page (take a look now) you'll find a main navigation bar
showing the four main sections of this site -- Home, Stuff, Crossword, and Fun Pix. Every page on this site, about
330 so far, is
categorized under one of these four main sections, and the top and bottom main nav bars are the same everywhere.
(Note that all the words in the universal nav bar are searched using the Find feature (Control-F or Edit | Find) of IE's browser. If Find finds an instance of a search term that isn't highlighted on the page, simply click Find Next.) Top and bottom Page-specific nav bars. Immediately below each main nav bar is a page-specific nav bar, on the same blue background, that shows you special links you might want to click from that exact page.
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Previous and Next links | |
If there's a series where you might want to read the pages in the order I
suggest, you'll see "Previous" and "Next" links in the page-specific nav bars. Hover your
cursor over the two links in the white box immediately above to see a description of where each one will take you, then
try them.
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In a few selected places you'll find a Back button icon, which performs exactly the same function as clicking the Back button
of your browser. These are merely reminders for those of you who wandered onto a new page to read something I linked you to and
who, having read it or decided it's crap, want to get back whence you came.
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Backgrounds' color schemes |
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To help you stay even better grounded lest you get lost, certain related groups of pages have special combinations of background colors for (1) the entire page, (2) the wide column of body text, and (3) sometimes a sidebar on the right for auxiliary content. |
Top-of-page links Some pages are quite long vertically, and it's handy for you to be able to get back to the top if you want without having to scroll a lot (although just leaning on the PageUp key also works). Accordingly, you'll find a number of well-placed links that do nothing more than take you instantly, with no re-loading, to the top of the page you're on. The links appear in the following three varieties. Try them. |
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Narrative description | What it looks like |
(1) The up-pointing yellow arrow at the far left of the main navigation bar at the bottom of every page | |
(2) Any graphic that looks kind of like a rainbow | |
(3) Any clickable text that just says, "Top." Duh. | Top |
Fun Pix list conventions | |
The main list of the Fun Pix pages, because it is so long, employs a few
special conventions to help you.
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Links in all caps | |
Text links to any Web page outside this site are rendered in all capital letters. Links within this site are in proper case. |
To repeat, you don't need to memorize any of the information above about how to navigate this site. Any of it you absorb might help a bit, but basically you should just go wherever you want and trust that despite the intertwining nature of this site you'll have a fighting chance of knowing where you came from, where you are, and where you might want to go next. |
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