Tutorial 2 - Finding Your Way Around*

*Images to be updated. Ed. 28.07.2010

Getting maximum beneft from site navigation

All important CAAST-Net content is available to users via the home page. Here, there are a number of useful navigation tools at your disposal in finding your around.

The first is the "navigation bar" near the top left of the screen. See Image 1 - "MAIN: Home" (encircled in red). If you were to click on "Help" on the list of links below (ie the grey buttons) then this would change to "MAIN: Help".

If you look up at the navigation bar of this very screen you will see it reads: "MAIN: Help>Finding your way around - indicating that two pages are linked together.

Image 1 - Navigation tools: website tools

The second navigation tool is the list of grey buttons on the left hand side of the page as you would view it. These are self-explanatory. For example, click Calendar, Related links or Consortium Partners. You should see that which appears in Images 2-4.

Image 2 - Calendar

Image 3 - Related Links

Image 4 - Consortium Partners

Other navigation tools are in fact sets of links on the home page itself - for example, links to an English, French or Portuguese introduction to CAAST-Net (see the top middle red circle in Image 1), or the links posted under the green header "More from CAAST-Net" (Image 5). In addition, a whole series of links to bi-regional Africa-EU projects are posted along with the project logos.

Image 5 - Navigation tools: links

Users should also use these links to move around the site and to explore its content. For example if you were interested in "News and events" and clicked "Public Noticeboard" then you would be directed to that page. Easy as that.

Image 6 - Public Noticeboard

So that's the basic logic of how you might find your way around the site if you were browsing. But in case you get stuck, please contact the CAAST-Net website support desk.

Happy browsing!