Help
for users
Welcome to our page of tips, designed to help you get the
most out of this site. This page includes information on:
Basics for using this site
Although there are no hard and fast rules on the Web, certain
conventions are becoming a standard. The Massachusetts Conference
site attempts to adhere to these conventions. For example:
Navigation:
Links: Links are what lead you from one section of a Web site
to another and from one site on the Web to another. Generally
on the Web, and on this site,
any word that is underlined is a link. If a person's name is underlined,
you can click on the name to send an email to that person. Also, most sites
have a navigation bar, such as the one on the left of this screen, which
contains links to the major sections of the site.
Cookie crumb trail:
So-called cookie crumb, or bread crumb, trails show where
you are on a site, such as this one, and give you a chance
to go
back
to any point along the “trail” that leads to
the current page. These trails are generally near the top
of the
page. On this site, they start with the words “You
are here” in red.
Viewing:
Font size: This site has been designed to give users as
much flexibility as possible. If the text seems too small
or too
large, you can adjust it. On your Netscape toolbar, click <view> and
then either <increase font> or <decrease font>.
On your Internet Explorer toolbar, click <view> then
either <text size> or <font> and then choose
a size setting larger or smaller than the current setting.
Or,
you may want to consider changing your
screen resolution.
The best
browsers
The Massachusetts Conference
Web Site will look best on the latest version of Netscape
Navigator or Microsoft's Internet
Explorer. You can find out if you have the latest version,
and can download the latest versions for free, by clicking
on these links:
Searching this site
This site is equipped with a powerful search engine which
you can access by using the "Search" window at the top
of each page.
Remember that if you type more than one word into the "Search"
window, your search results will include documents that contain
either of those words. So if you do a search for
Christian Education, the results listed will include
pages that have either the word Christian or the
word Education in them. If you
would rather find only those pages with the phrase Christian
Education, then you should type those words into the
seach window using quotation marks: "Christian Education".
Then, your results
will only include those pages with that complete phrase.
PDF files
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format that captures
pages from most desktop publishing applications, making it
possible to send print documents over the Web so they can
appear on the user's screen (and be downloaded to the user's
printer) in the same format in which they originally appeared
on paper. Some resources on the MACUCC website are available
only in PDF format.
To view or print a PDF file, you need
to install Adobe Acrobat Reader. This is free, easy-to-use
software.
To download
Acrobat Reader, click the “Get Acrobat Reader” button
below and follow the instructions. Be
sure to take note of where the downloaded file is saved on
your computer. When you
get a message that says “Download Complete,” go
to the downloaded file and double click on it to install
Acrobat Reader. You will most likely have to shut down your
computer
to complete the installation. Then, when you return to the
Conference site, you will be able to access PDF files simply
by clicking on the links to them.
If you want to copy text from
a PDF file to a word-processing
program on your computer, here's how:
When you open the file, you'll see this window in your web
browser. Use the text select tool (the depressed letter "T" in
this graphic.
Many PDF files are divided into columns. If you only want
to copy and paste text from one column, hold the mouse button
down over the text select tool. This will display a small
menu with a selection of text tools. Hit on the "T" surrounded
by a dotted line: this is the column select tool. Now block
a column or page of text, copy, and paste into your document.
Adjusting
screen resolution
You may want to
change the screen resolution settings on your computer
for easier viewing. You can test your settings by
looking at our test
bar.
If your browser's window is “maximized” to the
full size of the screen, but the red bar extends all the
way to the edge or beyond the edge of the window, then your
computer
is displaying graphics on this Web site at a larger size
than they were designed. You'll most likely encounter this
problem
if your computer is configured for a low screen resolution
of 640x480. In that case, you may want to increase resolution
to 800x600, which we recommend as the optimal setting for
the Web. Graphics will appear smaller at this higher setting,
but
will also be sharper and better defined. Consult your documentation
or the support staff of your computer's manufacturer for
more information, or use this instruction
page for information.
If after reading this information you are having difficulty
using the Massachusetts Conference site, please contact Tiffany
Vail at vailt@macucc.org.
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