Using this Tutorial
Recommended Hardware and Software Configuration
and Settings
- Monitor setting: 800 x 600 display
- 16-bit (thousands) color or higher bit depth
- Netscape Communicator v.4.6 or up; Internet Explorer v.5.0 or up
- JavaScript must be enabled
Navigation
This tutorial currently consists of 5major sections and an introductory
section, each containing several sub-sections. Each page of the tutorial
provides three navigational tools:
- At the top of the page is a navigation bar consisting of links to
the five sections. The label of the section you are working on appears
in black and is not linked. Along the left side of each page are links
to the different sub-sections within each section to let you move
directly to a particular sub-section.
- In the lower, righthand corner of the page are
"next" and "back" links that you can use to move
back and forth throughout the pages. At the end of
each section, you will see a link to the "Next
Section" indicating you have come to the end of one
section and can continue on to the next.
- At the bottom of each page is another
navigation bar. This bar includes links to the
tutorial's homepage, a detailed site map, a
glossary, a contact link where you can email us
with your questions or comments, and the library's
homepage.
Links within the Tutorial
Links are used throughout the tutorial, both to show
internal references and to point to related
information on other web sites. In order to avoid
losing track of your place in the tutorial when you
follow links, you need to understand a few things
about the behavior of the links:
- In most cases, links that point to material
within the tutorial appear in the current browser
window. Use your browser's "Back" button or the
tutorial's own navigation links to return to where
you were.
- External links will either open in a separate
browser window (a new session), in which case you
can either close the new browser window or go
directly to an external page, in which case you can
use your browser's "Back" button to return to where
you were.