How to navigate and use this Web site.
Navigation Tips
All pages contain a common heading area, which consists of the logo bar with a drop-down list of frequently-requested or especially important pages. You may always click on the logo to return to the home page.
Immediately beneath the logo bar is a "bread-crumb trail" which shows the current page title or subject in small gray type, and its immediate relationship to the hierarchy of pages to which it belongs. For example, the Personnel page displays its hierarchy something like this:
City Organization >
Assistant to City Manager >
Personnel
This tells you that the current page, Personnel (on the right of the line), has as its "parent" page the Assistant to City Manager page, whose parent page is the main City Organization page. Any pages in the displayed hierarchy that you can click on to quickly go to those destinations will be obvious when you pass your mouse pointer over them -- as with any hyperlink, your mouse pointer will change from an 
arrow icon to a 
pointing finger icon. Note that navigating back along the "bread-crumb hierarchy" is not the same as clicking your browser's back button; the back button simply takes you to the page you most recently visited.
Next, each page will display that page's title or subject on a bold colored banner extending across the page, such as:
Most pages also display a menu panel on the left side of the browser window. This menu reflects the basic organizational hierarchy of the City government in hyperlink form, plus some links of a more general nature that are not specific to an individual organizational unit within the City, such as "City News".
If you become disoriented,
you may also click on the Site Contents menu link at any time to see an alphabetized listing
of all the pages on this site. When you get to the Site Contents page, you may find your
search for specific subject matter easier if you use your browser's commands for
finding matching information to a text string you type in. For example, if you
were using Microsoft Internet Explorer under Windows and wanted to find admission fees for the municipal swimming pool,
you could use the browser Edit | Find command (or the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl-F), then type "swim", and the browser
would highlight any links which contained that text -- such as "Aquatics - Swim Prices".
This technique works for standard text on any page you might browse on the Web.
Note that most pages with content beyond a single screen, requiring you to scroll,
have a "top" hyperlink at
the bottom. Click on this to quickly jump to the top of the page. (We have
attempted to limit the length of most pages to minimize scrolling; however, some
pages -- such as the one you are reading now! -- that people may wish to print out for future reference may be longer to make printing and assembly more convenient.)
On a related note, these pages are designed to be viewable on virtually any monitor display resolution from 640 x 480 pixels (Standard VGA) on up. However, the pages are optimized for screen resolutions of 800 x 600 (Super VGA), and you will probably have the most pleasant viewing experience at that resolution or higher.
Also keep in mind that if the size of the printed text is too small or too large for your preferences, you may be able to adjust the sizing in your browser's menu of View options.
Finally, as you navigate you will find that some links open a second, new browser window. This is generally done only when the links would take you OFF from the current (City) site, to some external Web site. This allows you to close the secondary window when you are finished looking at it, and you will find automatically yourself back where you started. In some cases, secondary windows are popped up when they are intended to convey some supplementary information useful when reading the main content in the primary window. Such windows should always be closed before opening any other secondary popup windows; in fact, in some cases, other popup windows may not even work at all until the first popup window is closed.
About Your Browser
You are running OTHER 1 on Other.
Although we have attempted to make this Web site as "browser-neutral"
as possible, we nevertheless recommend that you use the freely available "4th generation" and "5th generation" browsers -- that is,
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.x
or Netscape Navigator/Communicator version 4.x -- for the
most enjoyable browsing experience. Be sure that you have enabled the JavaScript
option on your browser (this should be the default when you installed, so you probably
don't have to worry about it) if you want to use all the features on a few of the
pages.
If you use a "non-mainstream" browser -- such as the unique, clever and
very fast Opera
browser from Norway, or the miniscule Enigma browser -- we believe that you will be able to view all content, although
it might be displayed in somewhat unusual and unexpected ways. (We tested with
Opera v3.1.) If you use a text-only browser, such as Lynx, you should be able to
handle this site's content as descriptive comments were added to important graphical
elements.
Please be aware that the earlier versions of these browsers may display the same
material in very different ways, and that the ".0" releases of the Microsoft and
Netscape browsers tend
to be problematic, and may even pose certain security risks. Again, we recommend
that you upgrade to the latest versions available (but do not run "beta" or
experimental versions unless you are willing to take that risk).
If you intend to download or view certain material from this site -- such as the Zoning Map -- you will need to have the Adobe
Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. The Reader may be downloaded free of
charge from Adobe. You also can learn more about using the Adobe Reader by clicking here.
We can't give you technical support for your computer or your browser, but we will
be happy to receive your comments about our site and provide you with information
about our City's government.
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