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Hints and Tips on
using this (or any other!) website
(NB: be patient while this loads, and take heart: for
this and other pages which have a lot of images/pictures, the first time
is tedious, but very probably Windows will helpfully store copies of them
in your PC for next time, so from then on they will come up much more
quickly).
This rather long webpage
contains help on the following aspects of using this website: it includes
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Navigation
(moving between the pages)
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Printing
(in particular, how to avoid
tearing your hair out when what you see on the screen isn't what gets
printed out)
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Emailing us
(why clicking on an email link
may not always work)
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This page is
deliberately correctly printable (let us know if we're wrong about that!)
and is mainly in black and white to save your expensive colour cartridge
(see the Printing section below on how to make it totally black and white
and save even more).
Navigation
On this or any other
website, you move from page to page by clicking on links (in this website
highlighted in blue) which open a new page. Most pages on this site (the
exceptions are a number designed for easy printing - see below) have a set
of links down the left and across the bottom to get to the major sections
of the site. However, there's a limit to the links one can place on a
page without it looking fussy; so each of the locations where we have
church activity has its own set of pages, but these are not accessible
directly from the menus at left and bottom. If that's where you want to
go, you will find the location links on the 'Welcome' page and on the
'Introducing Us' page - so get yourself back there if you end up an
apparent blind alley.
In the case of the main
links discussed above, the new page will normally replace the one you're
leaving: if you then want to get back to the previous page, there are
(this is Windows and the Internet, after all!) various ways to do it:
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Use the ¬ Backspace key on your
keyboard
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Use the 'Back' button on the screen in the 'browser' you are
using for access to the Internet. If this is Internet Explorer or
Netscape Navigator, the button is at the top left:
   
If you are using some other browser (such as Mozilla) you
probably know enough about the Internet to know where the buttons are -
if not, look for something similar!
Once you've started
this process, you'll find the right-facing arrow just alongside will
'light up'; clicking on that will take you to the last page you saw - but
so will the Back button, so forget it!
Finally, the Back
button or its equivalent will on this page take you back to the top if
you have clicked on one of the three topics!
Where we thought it
likely that after looking at the new page you would want to come back to
the page you left (for example, if you start from the 'home' page for one
of the congregation locations), the new page will open in a new window.
If you see this happen, you will also note that the back button is not
available: you go 'back' to the previous page (when using Windows
Internet Explorer) by clicking the 'Close Window' symbol at the top right
of the new window:
 
You do it in Navigator
by clicking on the same symbol on the 'active' window tab above the
webpage you see:
 
If you decide to stay in
the new window, you will have to close the previous page in the ways
described just above.
Finally, if you still
get lost, go back to the Welcome page and start again! You may find a
quiet and interesting corner of the site you didn't the previous time...
Printing
Printing from the
Internet seems designed to be annoying; you either find yourself losing
the right-hand edge of the webpage, or using a lot of that expensive coloured
ink cartridge reproducing someone's idea of pretty pictures, or both.
Here's a couple of ideas how to avoid that here:
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If when you click
on 'File' then 'Print Preview' (Internet Explorer on left below,
Navigator on right) it looks like you will lose the right edge, then go
to 'Page Setup' and select 'Landscape' orientation. If you then go
through your normal 'File' and 'Print' process, you'll maybe end up using
more paper, but at least you'll have the whole thing.
   
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If you'd like to
print a page in black and white, then do the following. When you click
'File' then 'Print' you will get a window looking something like this:
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Click on
'Preferences' for the selected printer, and you will get another screen something
like this:
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Select Black &
White, then OK; this takes you back to the previous screen, where you as
usual click OK to start printing.
We regrettably can't
help you with that other annoying phenomenon, the fact that whatever you
do you always seem to get an extra page with just the Internet address of
the page on it and the rest blank!
Emailing problem
If you are using
Microsoft Outlook for emailing (probably the default on your machine)
then clicking on an email address in one of the pages will bring up a
message outline ready for you to complete. If you are using Outlook
Express, it won't! This is what Microsoft call a 'known problem' - i.e.
they aren't planning to fix it any time soon. So if that happens, you
will need to copy and paste the email address out of the web page and
into a blank message. Sorry, don’t blame me, I only work here...
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