I.C.T. Department

How to use Horbury Interactive

When you first visit Horbury Interactive, you will see a window similar to this one:-

Horbury Interactive has been carefully designed so that it is easy for you to use.

To help you move around Horbury Interactive, there are several features that you should find useful.

Top Navigation Bar

This bar should appear at the top of every page, and will provide you with a quick and easy way of moving around Horbury Interactive.

From left to right, the features are:-

If you click on this icon, it will set your home page to Horbury Interactive. This means that the next time that you open Internet Explorer, it will automatically open Horbury Interactive.

clicking on this icon opens the Horbury Search page. You can search the whole Internet using Google, or just the Horbury site.

This icon adds the Horbury home page to your list of favourites.

You can use this icon to email the Horbury webmaster.

Homepage

This link will always take you back to the Horbury homepage

Departments

This link will jump to the main department page.

School

The main School page has lots of useful information about the school, including term dates, school times, list of uniform etc.

Eventually, you will be able to login to the Horbury site and visit restricted areas that only you will be able to access.

This is a quick method of searching the Horbury site.

Main Page Title

This should appear across the top of every page. It tells you which section of Horbury Interactive you are currently viewing.

Main Section

This is the main part of every page and is divided into three columns.

The left hand column will always show a list of pages that you can view, either just on this section, or of the whole site.

The centre column holds the main content for that page.

The column on the right is optional, but if it is used it will contain "value added" links which will be related to the main theme of the current page.

Why are their different colours on my page?

Horbury Interactive uses different colours of text to make special areas stand out:-

hyperlink

Links to other web pages are shown in blue. The link changes colour (see "hover") when you move your mouse over the words.

hover

When you move your mouse over a hyperlink, the text will change colour. Clicking on the link will jump to the page.

visited link

If there is a link on your page to somewhere that you have already been, then the link will appear like this, to indicate that you have already been to that page.

active link

Sometimes a link will appear as "active". If you press the "enter" key on your keyboard, then the page will load straight away.

Main heading

Main section headings should be displayed like this. Generally, there should only be one main heading on a page.

Heading

This style is used as a sub heading.

Heading

This is an alternative sub heading style. Occasionally you may see two different heading styles being used, and it should be obvious that one of them is a sub heading.

bulleted list
bulleted list
bulleted list

Bulleted lists usually appear like this. You may find that each item on the list is a link to another page. Clicking on that item will open the page.

Click on this link for a detailed technical specification of the format used on Horbury Interactive.