help

This page is intended to serve as a basic guide to AWCOslo.org. If your specific question isn't answered, e-mail the Web Coordinator and she'll get back to you. As we receive questions relevant to a larger audience, we'll add them to the FAQ* section of this help page. Please note that these topics relate to PCs (personal computers). If you are using a Mac and have a question, please direct it to us, we'll research the answer, and get back to you.
*Frequently Asked Questions

• Password Protection

• AWCOslo.org--The Tour

• How to Navigate

• How to Bookmark AWCOslo.org

• Saving Pages

• Frequently Asked

Password Protection

The site has both public (open to all users) and private (password protected areas for members only) sections. If you'd like access to the members only section, join the AWC Oslo! If you're already a member, contact our Membership Coordinator for the user name and password.

AWCOslo.org has both public and private sections. The public sections are open to all Internet users and the private section, Members Only, is password protected information for AWC members. If you'd like access to the Members Only section, contact either our Membership Coordinator, or Web Coordinator, for the user name and password.

AWCOslo.org is divided into five main sections plus a few extras such as a site map, a help page, a search page, what’s new?, and, of course, our home page.

The first page you see when you enter AWCOslo.org.

This is a good place to check when you first log onto AWCOslo.org. Here we list all the things that have been updated on the site by the date of the update.

This section contains basic information about the AWC of Oslo, including a monthly message from the Club’s president, who we are, where we meet, information about our upcoming meeting, an upcoming events calendar, and an online membership application.

Our goal in creating this section of the Web site was to provide newcomers with basic information and a list of resources to help in making the transition to their new life in Oslo. We also believe that this section has something to offer veteran residents of Oslo as well. In this section, you'll find information on how to find housing, get your utilities set up, what to do for fun, how to fill out a giro, Norwegian social customs, where to buy firewood, information on alternative schools, and more!

Here you’ll find links to other useful sites on the World Wide Web, including FAWCO and other AWC Web sites.

This section points users to publications available that are helpful in adjusting to life in Oslo.

This section is password protected Club information such as the Membership Directory, Standing Rules, detailed Library news and book reviews, Book Club news and discussion questions, details on the where and when of planned activities, articles from the Fjord Flyer archives, and lots of stuff that's just for fun.

The site map is a sort of road map to what’s on AWCOslo.org and lists all of the pages on the public portion of the Web site (everything except the Members Only section) with a brief explanation of each.

This page provides users with basic help on using AWCOslo.org. Topics include

• Password Protection

• AWCOslo.org -- The Tour

• How to Navigate

• How to Bookmark AWCOslo.org

• Saving Pages

• FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

 

From the Search box, users can search AWCOslo.org' s nonmember pages for specific information. For instance, if you want to find information about the AWC scholarship, you can type scholarship into the search box (see example below), and click the Start Search button.

After a search of AWCOslo.org, a page will be displayed that lists all the pages within AWCOslo.org which contain the word scholarship. Click on the hyperlink of a listed page to go to that page.

How to Navigate

Hyperlinks

Wondering what all those bits of the text that are blue and underlined are? Hyperlinks - they're what make Web pages interesting and interactive! Clicking on a hyperlink takes you to another page relevant to the hyperlink, either on this Web site or to another Web site. For example, if you click this hyperlink - about us - you'll be taken to the index page of the about us section of this Web site. On the other hand, if you click on a hyperlink in the web links section of this site, such as FAWCO, you'll be taken off of this site and onto the FAWCO site.

Hyperlinks can also provide you with a link to send someone an e-mail. For example, throughout our site we have hyperlinks attached to people's names. Clicking on these hyperlinks will open up a blank e-mail message box with the person's address already entered. All you need to do is to type in a subject and your text, click send, and you've sent an e-mail message to that person. We also have e-mail hyperlinks attached to such phrases as send us your comments or let us know. Clicking on those hyperlinks sends the AWC Web Coordinator a message.

On the AWCOslo Web site, when a hyperlink is active it turns the text to bold red and italicizes it. A link is active when the mouse pointer is poised over it. Try it here - move your mouse cursor over this hyperlink, see how it changed the text?

What about the red underlined text? Once you've visited a hyperlink (clicked on it), the hyperlink is no longer blue, but red. This just indicates to you that you've already visited that area of the Web.

Hot Spots in Image Maps

Some images contain hot spots--hyperlinks over a portion of the picture. For example, in our site, the AWC organization chart is an image that has hot spots over each of the AWC Board positions. Clicking on a hot spot/board position takes you to a Web page in our site that tells you who is currently holding the position you clicked on.

AWC Organization Chart: An image with hot spots

How do you know where the hot spots are on images? As you move the mouse cursor around a Web page, whenever you point to a hot spot, the cursor turns into a hand with the index finger extended and the Web address (URL) of the place it links to appears in small type at the bottom of the screen. In addition, text pertaining to the link can appear in a little box that "floats" over the mouse pointer, if the Web author chose to use this option. Try it out here. Place your cursor over the box with President in the image above. You'll notice your cursor turned from an arrow to a hand with the index finger extended and the following text appeared in a box floating underneath the hand: Click here to meet the person currently holding this position.

Where am I?

The title of the current page is shown on the title bar of your Web browser (top of the screen, see illustration below). In the example below, the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser is pointing to AWCOslo.org - homepage.

Title bar of Microsoft Internet Explorer shows the title of the homepage of the AWCOslo.org site

How do I get back home? or to the Web Links section?

The navigation bar (below) at the top of each page allows you to easily navigate from one section of the Web site to another. Simply click on the name of the section you'd like to view and you'll be taken to the index page for that section. The navigation bar will also take you to the site map (an overview of the site), this help page, the search page, and home - back to the main page of the Web site.

Navigation bar found on the top of each page on the AWCOslo.org Web site

Another navigation aid is found at the bottom of every page. Again, simply click on the name of the section you'd like to view and you'll be taken to the index page for that section. From this navigation bar, you can also go home, to the search page, this help page, the site map, or, by clicking on feedback, you can open a message box and send us your comments and ideas.

Navigation bar found on the bottom of each page on the AWCOslo.org Web site

Back Button

You're Web browser remembers the last few pages you've visited, so if you click a link and decide that you're not too crazy about where you ended up or are through with that page and want to go back to where you were, simply click the Back button of your Web browser. For example,

                              
Microsoft Internet Explorer                    Netscape Navigator

How to Bookmark AWCOslo.org

How you bookmark a page depends upon which Web browser you are using. Book marking a page simply means that you add the address of a page to a list that you can access from your Web browser. That way, when you want to visit a favorite site again, all you do is go to your list of bookmarks or favorites, select the one you want to visit, and click...voilá you're back at the site again.

Saving Pages

If you see something on AWCOslo.org that you'd like to keep to read again later, you can save the page. In Netscape, Internet Explorer, or Opera, all you need to do is click on File, then click on Save As to save whatever page you have on your screen to a file that you can access later. When the Save As dialog box pops up, you need to decide in which format you want the page saved:  choose Plain Text to save only the text (you'll see little boxes where the pictures used to be) or HTML or HTML Files to save the page just as it is. Then click the Save or OK button and the page is saved.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are all these blue underlined things I see all over the place?

Those are hyperlinks. On AWCOslo.org when a hyperlink is attached to a part of the text, the text is blue in color and underlined. That tells you that you can click on that word or phrase and be taken to another part of the Web site that pertains to the word or phrase.

For example, if you click on this hyper-linked phrase About Us, you'll be taken to the About Us section of the Web site.

How come the blue underlined text all of a sudden turns red?

That's simply a navigational aid to let you know that your cursor is over a hyperlink. A normal hyperlink appears as About Us, but, when it's active (your cursor is over the hyperlink), it appears as About Us. When you see the red text and want to follow the hyperlink, just click.

How do I get back to the top of a Web page?

You can use the scroll bar on the right hand side of your screen and either 1) click on the top arrow until you are at the top of the page, 2) push up the moving scroll bar to the top of the page, or 3) click your cursor in the open area of the scroll bar (above the movable scroll bar) until you reach the top of the page. Another way to get to the top is to depress both the Ctrl and Home buttons on your keyboard simultaneously. And thirdly, you can simply depress the Page Up button on your keyboard repeatedly until you are at the top of the page. You can do all the above in reverse to navigate down a page.

Why is there an events calendar and pages on such things as Moms & Tots, Working Women, and the Book Club on both the public portion of the site and again in the Members Only section?

The pages on the public portion of the site do not contain specifics regarding people, times, nor places. The corresponding pages in the Members Only section provides our members with everything they need to know about an event or topic.

I like the maps that are linked to the addresses on the site, but after they come up I can't use the Back button on my browser. What's going on?

When you click on an address in AWCOslo.org that is hyper linked, a map showing the location of the address will open in a new window. Since this is a new window and the first site you've visited in this window, the Back button does not function. To return to AWCOslo.org, simply click on the button on your task bar at the bottom of your screen that shows AWCOslo.org (in the middle of the illustration below)..

Task bar (located at the bottom of the screen)