Help Desk
How to use this website
Printing
This site is also designed to be printer friendly. Any text within this site is guaranteed to print without cutting on the right hand side. What's more, the pages have been coded so persons printing any pages will not be wasting any ink printing a grey border on the left and right sides of the paper.
To print, press CTRL and P (or Command+P on Mac PCs) to save time moving your mouse to the File section on the top right of your browser. If you wish to save on printer ink, or rid your documents of the file references at the top and bottom, click on File, then move to Page Setup. Some browsers also allow the option of printing or not printing background images.
Bookmarking pages
On Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and K-Meleon web browsers, press CTRL and D (Command+D on Mac PCs), rather than moving your mouse towards the Bookmarks menu. For users of Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to Favorites and select Add to Favorites.
Content and Links
To the top right hand side column is the main navigation menu. Some secondary navigation may be seen before the main content on multiple paged articles. At the bottom of some pages may be links to further references related to each article.
Some pages within this site include inner secondary pages. For example, the Drawings section has an inner section leading to some examples of artwork. Within the right column, some pages have additional links to the inner pages. For example, the poetry page will have links to pieces between K - S at the bottom of the final piece.
The main links at the top are designed to create a sense of hierarchy between the core pages and secondary pages. All links use ever dependable HTML hyperlinks rather than image maps or Adobe Flash movies.
Each page within this site is listed within the Sitemap page. Unlike the previous version of this site, pages are created using <DIV> tags, with CSS used to position the text layout as well as the text itself.
Lightbox Effects
Some image files within the website use a form of graphics known as a 'lightbox effect'. This means the main browser window turns black when an image is clicked. The image (decorated with a light border) emerges outside the main browser using JavaScript and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to create this effect.
The lightbox effects within this website also support keyboard navigation. Pressing 'P' will move you to the previous image, whereas pressing 'N' will move you to the next image. To close the image, press 'C' or 'Esc' key.
If the browser does not support JavaScript (or that the JavaScript is turned off within your browser), the image will load as normal without the lightbox effects.
Graphics: Icons and Illustrations
Located on the left hand side of each page's main titles are icons which are used to describe each page in a pictorial form. These pictograms are similar to those used for PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) methods of communication.
File sizes are kept as low as possible to enable fast loading times. There is nothing more annoying than waiting ages for your desired page to load, due to an illustration boasting a file size the same as an Amiga 600's RAM capacity.
For persons browsing this website on mobile phones (including Apple's iPhone and Google's Android phones), PDAs and Blackberry devices, all graphics and overall layout have been optimised to load effectively. The site has also been tested for use on a bog standard mobile phone using GPRS/WAP internet connections.
