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- Now you are ready to proceed...ready to choose a particular tutorial...ADU suggests that you carry out a Search of the database... the best place to start is the simplest search...termed here "BROWSE"
- ...so click on the "Search ADU" link at the top of the Home page (the big black left page)...
- ...the
red "Search Selection" page replaces the black
Home page and half-overlaps the green tutorial page on the right.
Click on the left and it comes to the front...click on the right and it comes to the front...doing this is called "toggling" between items. The front or top page is the active one...where you are working at any time.
- ...now
you can choose the KIND of search to be made...click on "Arts
Individual", and another red page takes its place.
WE WON'T GO ANY FURTHER INTO BROWSING THE DATABASE THAN THIS... this is a tutorial about BECOMING FAMILIAR WITH SETTING-UP FOR ALL TUTORIALS. The Browsing tutorial comes next...don't add to any text boxes...yet...
- Note:
you should always have half
of each page in view. Observe that the monitor screen
is divided into three areas by the overlap:
- the actual page of ADU on the left (where you will be entering or editing records) is structured so that text boxes will always be in view even when toggling...use the left hand page bottom margin scroll bar to center and organise for this...optimise.
- the screenshots are in the middle and are in view or hidden, depending on toggling.
- the tutorial steps, notes, and hints are always in view on the right, even after toggling...and conveniently close to the right margin scroll-bar.
- YOUR
NEXT STEP WOULD BE
to click
on the "Search" Tutorial link at the top of
this Tutorial page (the green right page)...BUT...if
you do you'll replace what's left of this tutorial with the "Search"
tutorial and the notes below would become inaccessible...there is a
way around this as you will soon see... but for
now, just READ ON as if you've taken this step...
- ...the
"Search" Tutorial replaces the "Tutorial" Tutorial.
Now you can scroll down so that the instructions and screenshots
are opposite the place on the "Search" page where you want
to start, or where you want to revise from...
- Note:
you can use the tutorials any time
while working with ADU...just open the second window as reference
for your actions, and follow the pink
steps and yellow explanations.
- Note:
when you submit data to ADU you will receive
an ID number if you complete the submission.
You will be included in the Databases. So write down the number when
it appears...it will allow you access to your records so that you can
EDIT OR DELETE. Please manage your entry...use
the number to delete your efforts if it is a practise submission.
- Note: submissions to Much ADU and Visitors Book cannot be edited once submitted...they do not supply you with post-session editing possibilities. If you need to have a submission to either of these deleted (embarrassment, sorrow, privacy) send an E-mail to ADU...otherwise everything is archived.
- ...toggling
between screenshots and work area as needed...but
a FINAL
SET-UP STEP is necessary
because four tutorials are much longer than the others ... some of the
tutorials are one page long, some are two, one is three...reflecting
the degree of complexity.
Reason: rather than have the larger files slow-up the process, we've set ourselves a file size limit of just under 300 Kb per page, and divided the pages accordingly. This increases the total tutorial page number, but makes each page faster to load, with each page taking about the same time to appear.
How can you make this manageable?...
.....OPEN YET ANOTHER PAGE IN YOUR BROWSER.
To have 2 or 3 (or more) tutorial windows open on the desktop at the same time, "Right-click" the links to the next page (the "Go to Page 1" link below) and select "Open in NEW window" from the drop-down list that will appear...(or use "Control-click" for Mac users). Line the extra page up under the first, and off-set it enough to be able to toggle between the three...same rule as above applies for keeping scroll-bars visible.
For more notes on file size and time, check the "Showcase" tutorial and visit the "General Notes" of "About ADU" after completing this tutorial.
- Note:
"Right-clicking"
or "Control-clicking" ANY
Internet link will offer the same choice-list...open
as many pages as you need...but you'll find there are limits.
You can open the same page many times also...if you get "lost", clicking on "Window" will list what's open...keep track of what's happening.
- Note:
revision:
when you click the "Tutorial" link on any ADU page,
you will come to page 1 of this tutorial about tutorials.
Then you make your choice by clicking one of the remaining 11 tutorials
at the top of that page...or the bottom of this page.
END TUTORIAL...how would you re-set the desktop?...
RAM: is short for Random Access Memory.
This is the measure of a computer's temporary memory...it holds data that is in use...what you are working with. To have several pages open on your desktop is a burden to RAM, and will slow-down processing time. If your computer runs slowly, it's because it's being made to do too much. (If you Browser runs slowly, the file it's accessing is too large, and / or the net and your physical links to it are overtaxed or damaged in some way...it's external and not your fault).
ROM: is short for Read Only Memory.
Computer memory that cannot be modified...it runs things the way they must be run, and doesn't forget...unless.....
You can increase a computer's RAM and ROM...Why would you?
NEXT TUTORIAL: to work through another tutorial, make a selection from the links below and click on the "Search ADU" link on the left page...in this case the red search page, and then click "BROWSE ADU". It will change to. Realise that you can leave this tutorial open as reference to the next by once more "Right-clicking" or "Control-clicking" the tutorial link of your choice...you could have five pages open...so practise your desktop management. The best learning progression is:
BROWSE
SEARCH
SUBMIT
EDIT
CALENDAR
QUICKLINKS
SHOWCASE
LINK
VISITORS BOOK
MUCH ADU
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