LINKS IN THIS WEBSITE
A CHANGE:
In April 2010, all links were changed to "opening in the same window"
so now the situation is simpler:
This website for Whole-Person Education has TWO KINDS OF LINKS:
an ITALICIZED LINK keeps you inside a page, moving you to
another part of it, and
a NON-ITALICIZED LINK opens another page. Both keep everything inside this window,
so your browser's BACK-button will always take you back to where you were.
Here is the old system:
Three types of links are
used in a consistent way An italicized link is always INSIDE-the-page, taking you to another place inside the page you're reading. { For example, this link takes you to an explanation of "how to prevent time-wasting reloads" later in this page. } A non-italicized link does one
of two things, depending on its location: For example, here is a page-adding link (A
Quick Education) and at the bottom of this page you'll
find page-replacing links. In this website (and others?) don't turn off "underline links" in your browser's preferences. In most websites, and especially in this one (because it uses colors for non-link purposes) underlining provides a clear visual clue to tell you what is and isn't a link. In any website, you can use
visual cues to know whether
a link has added a new page or replaced the old page, because (with most browsers)
a new window will open in a slightly different location so you'll be able
to
see both pages, new
and old. {
This is impossible if you're using a Windows operating system, unless you decrease
the size of
your browser
window
so it doesn't
occupy the entire
screen; then when a new window opens it won't "eclipse" the
old window,
instead it will appear in
a different
location and you'll be able to see both windows. } The MAIN BODY usually ends, as you'll see later in this page, with TRIPLE SEPARATION-BARS followed by the page-BOTTOM which usually includes a BOX-WITH-LINKS, some TEXT, and a NAVIGATION TABLE FOR THE WEBSITE-AREAS. But occasionally there is a simpler page-bottom, with a DOUBLE SEPARATION-BAR followed by TEXT. In the main body, all italicized links keep you inside a page, and all non-italicized links add a new page, either inside the ASA Science Ed website or in another website. If you don't know whether a new page is in this website, you don't know what its links will do, but you can always use visual cues (for page-locations or the BACK-button) or you can try using the BACK-button, as explained earlier. WHY DOES THIS WEBSITE HAVE THREE KINDS OF LINKS? To prevent page-reloads that (especially if you're surfing with a slow modem) will waste your valuable time, for large pages the URL (which you can see in the "address location" window of your browser) will end with #i. I've added this suffix to the URL because, when you use an inside-the-page link followed by your BACK-button, it lets you come back to "where you were" instantly, since the #i prevents a reloading of the page. If you're in a large page that does reload (after using an inside-the-page link and then your back-button) because the URL does not end with #i, you can type it yourself and press "return" to reload the page (once), and then your inside-the-page links will be fast. { The only browser that doesn't take you back to "where you were in the page" is MS Internet Explorer for Macintosh. } After a page-replacing link, you can return to the original
page by using your browser's BACK-button, or you can BOOKMARK a page in your
FAVORITES, or look for
it in your browsing HISTORY.
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this page is http://www.asa3.org/ASA/education/links2.htm
Whole-Person
Education for Science and Faith
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