How to use this Internet site!  

 The Washington Ringing Society internet site is very much like an internet web site.  Well, come to think of it, it is an internet web site.  Forget this part.

An internet web site is like a book.   The Home page is the cover that invites you into the site.   It is also a starting point briefly describing the contents of the site.  All other pages are connected or linked to the home page and sometimes to each other.

On most pages you will find top and bottom navigation bars.  
Place your mouse pointer over one of the text links, left click your mouse and you are on your way to another page.  These text links are called navigation text links and provide the links between the pages in the book.

Sometimes you will see a word or text that is underlined like HOME .  This is called a hyperlink.  Place your mouse pointer over the hyperlink and the arrow immediately changes to a hand.  Left click your mouse and you go to the hyperlinked page.  These hyperlinks provide the links between the pages in the book also.  Another type of hyperlink is an external hyperlink.  These links take you to a page in another site and are marked with an underline and an image like this- Cathedral. In addition, you may see an email address such as ED.  This is also a hyperlink but not to another page.  Clicking on this type of hyperlink will open your email program and a new mail message with the above email address already placed as the recipient.

All hyperlinks on this site have a color code.   
The light blue means this is a page you have not viewed before.   Red indicates it is an active hyperlink or you are on your way to the hyperlinked page.  Green lets you know you have viewed the page before.  All of the green hyperlinks can be reset to blue (not viewed) by deleting your "history" and "temporary internet files."  For more information, please see your browser's help menu.

Another navigation device you may find on this site is the image map.  An image map is a picture with certain hot spots added to it through programming.  Move your mouse pointer over the picture until it changes to a hand.  Not all pictures are image maps, so if the mouse pointer doesn't change to a hand, it is not an image map.  There can be many hot spots on a single picture as in the example below (click on the head and you will be brought to the first sentence on this page, to the word internet, which is a bookmark. The paper is a hot spot hyperlink to another page).

The best rule to follow is - if you get lost anywhere on this site, press the Home text link at the bottom of the page and start again.

On the bottom navigation bar, you will find a Contents text link.  This is the table of contents of the internet site.  It was commonly call the site map in the past.  Located here are all of the pages in the site.   Of course the light blue hyperlinks are pages you haven't seen and the green hyperlinks are where you've been. 

All browsers have some navigation tools.  The main ones are the back, home, and refresh or reload buttons.  The back button returns you to the previous viewed page.  The home button brings you to the home page selected as the default for your browser.  The refresh or reload buttons allow you to update what you see on your screen with the latest version of the page.  Sometimes changes are made to a page that you can't see until you refresh or reload it.

The movies on this site are in MPEG or AVI format.  
Unfortunately, we have some high quality movies and they do take some time to load.  You might find it faster to right mouse the image instead of left mouse clicking the image and then just saving the target to your hard drive.  We hope to have some rather poor versions in the future for those of you suffering from  Impatient Movie Load Syndrome (IMLS).

You will find sections of this site labeled under construction . This indicates the section is not complete.

A tool you might find useful; right mouse and Save As.  I put it in my startup menu.
Internet Explorer tip: F11 will expand to full screen and back again.
Internet Explorer tip: right clicking on a link and selecting "Open in new Window." works!
Mouse tip: Ctrl + Mouse wheel rotation will ENLARGE screens on most MS products.