Re-sizing the text

If you are having trouble reading the text, you can re-size it by selecting one of the Text size too small? options in the top left hand area of the site. It looks like this:

New User

If you are new to this site, the following information may help you to get started. It may also be useful to print this page for reference.

Links
Scrolling
Navigation
Keeping Track of where you are
Back to Home Page
Go "Back"

Links

Text that is underlined is normally a link that will take you to another page, for example  this is a link (but, it won't take you to another page because we want you to read on..)

Scrolling

Remember that there may be information at the bottom of the page that you cannot see, so keep scrolling down. You can make the screen scroll by:

• using the up and down arrows on your keyboard, or
• using the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys on your keyboard, or
• if you are using a mouse with a middle tracker button, you can move this up or down, or
• by dragging the scroll bar by clicking your mouse and holding down whilst you move the scroll bar (see picture 2 below), or
• by clicking on the up or down browser arrows (see pictures 1 and 3 below)
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Navigation

The main way to find your way around the site is to use the "navigation". The navigation is like a directory system that organises the information on this site. The list of topics on the left hand side of the site is referred to as the navigation. Each item in this panel is known as a "menu option". For example "Health and Wellbeing" is a menu option.

Each menu has been given a label to describe the type of information that you can find within that section. For example, if you select "Local Transport" in the navigation, a sub-section of related topics is displayed. For example:

From the picture above you can see that "Blue Badge Scheme" and "Free Bus Pass" are sub-topics of the "Local Transport" option.

When you need to find information in this site, choose a title from the left hand menu that corresponds to the type of information you are looking for, and select the text link by moving your mouse over it and clicking. This will take you into the next screen of related information.

Once you are in a new section you will be able to select a topic from the sub-navigation option as described above. Again, move your mouse over the option you want to select and click the text. This will take you into a new screen. For example, lets presume you have selected "Health and wellbeing" from the navigation. You will see a screen with all the options for Health and Wellbeing in the left hand navigation panel, as well as in the main body of the page. For example:

To view content in any of these sections, select an option by moving your mouse over it and clicking. For example if you select "Exercise" you will be taken into a sub-section where you can select from a range of content related to Exercise.

Keeping track of where you are

Where ever you are in the site, you will see the "You are in: ..." text links at the top of the screen, which look like this:



These text links tell you which part of the site you are in, and help you keep track of where you are. You can select any of these text links by placing your mouse over the link and clicking. For example, if you clicked the "Money matters" text this will take you back to the Money Matters section of the site.

Back to Home Page

Alternatively, at any point you can return to the home page by clicking on the "Angus Gold Home" link, at the top left-hand corner of every screen, e.g:

Go "Back"

If you just want to return to a previous page you can use the "back" button on the web browser

or you can click the right button on your mouse (if you have this) and select the "back" option from the menu that pops up on the screen: