Help

From Windows, you can print this page by pressing Ctrl-P; on a Mac use Cmnd-P.

I've checked the site with Internet Explorer version 6.0 and 7.0, Netscape Navigator versions 8.1 and Firefox versions 1.5 and 2.0; if you're having trouble please let me know what browser (and what version) you are using.

I hope you won't get lost navigating this Web Site. I've tried to make it simple, so most pages are no more than two clicks away.

The menu at the top of the screen gives a number of section headings, and when you enter the site you see the Home page. Clicking on one of the headings displays the appropriate section in the body of the screen.

Some of the sections have one or more buttons on their heading line which will bring a sub-section into the lower part, but the menu is always there to stop you getting lost. I've put a Back button to the left of each page title (that white arrow on a purple background before the word “Help”) but you shouldn't often need it; just click on Section and then Sub-section if any.

Most of the sections are longer than your screen, in which case you can use the scroll-bar on the right to move up or down the text. I prefer to use the [Page Up], [Page Down], [Home] and [End] keys (ctrl-[Home] and ctrl-[End] on Netscape) — but then I'm not a great fan of Windows and I often prefer the keyboard to the mouse!

Some of the sections and sub-sections contain underlined references to other Web Sites (or sometimes other pages of this Web Site). Clicking on these will display the other Web Site full-screen.

I originally designed these pages using Internet Explorer 4 and 5, with a screen resolution of 640 x 480 pixels, using small fonts. If you're running Windows 95 or later, you can probably use these settings too!

Right-click on an empty area of the desktop.
Click Properties to bring up the “Display Properties” box.
Click the Settings tab.
To change your screen resolution, drag the screen pointer in the Display area box to the right setting.
To change to small fonts, click Advanced, click the Down Arrow in the Font Size box and select “Small fonts”.
Click OK, and if necessary allow Windows to restart your computer.

If you don't want to change your Windows display but you would like more to fit your screen, you can switch to smaller fonts within Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer 4
If you don't have a menu at the top of the screen, click the Full-screen icon.
From the View Menu select Internet options.
You should be on the General tab. Click Fonts…
Click the down arrow on Font size and select something smaller.
Click OK on both screens to return to Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer 5+
If you don't have a menu at the top of the screen, press [F11] for full-screen mode.
From the View Menu select Text Size.
Click a radio button to switch to a smaller setting.

By the way, if you're in full-screen mode with IE 4.01 or later you can right-click on the toolbar and click on Auto Hide. (I don't think you can do this on a Mac, which doesn't have a right mouse button; if you know better please let me know.) This means that the toolbar disappears until you move your cursor to the top of the screen, giving you a bigger viewable area. The mouse must be at the very top before the toolbar will reappear. And I assume you know that you can right-click on the Windows taskbar, click Properties and then click Auto hide to do the same trick with the taskbar — why have things on your screen that you don't often need?

If you're still confused,