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All of the following
navigation tools appear on every page of the IPST website with
the exception of the Main Selector buttons (circled in yellow).
The Assistance Items are patterned
after Georgia Tech's home page Assistance Items. The "Campus
Map" and "Directories" options link you
back to Georgia Tech's main site and reference Georgia
Tech as a whole. The "Site Map", "Site Help" and "Search" options
are IPST specific.
The Indirect selectors allow
you to navigate to sections of the IPST site that are not
directly involved with research. One exception is "Members'
Channel" which is located
with the indirect selectors due to its password protection.
The Main Selector buttons appear
only on the IPST Home Page and act as the opening research-related
navigation tools. The same options,
howerver, do appear on every page as part of the footer.
The IPST internal page is accessable
to IPST staff and students only.
The other part of the footer contains
links to the "Contact" page and the "Mission Statement"
page as well as the "Georgia Tech Legal and Privacy Statement"
page. Links to both the "Contact" and "Mission
Statement" pages are also availabe under the "Welcome" section
which appears as the first option under the Indirect
selectors.
The upper left logo and
the lower right logo are links back to the IPST
Home Page and the Georgia Tech Home Page respectively.
Finally, the footer contains
the date on which that page was last updated. |
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On the sub-pages
the Main Selector buttons to the left are replaced by two
sets of selectors.
The first is a set of forward
navigation buttons that will change dependant on
your current location within the website. Because
of the expected browsing style of visitors to this
site these sub menus will appear where the Main Menu
would normally remain. As stated earlier, the Main
Menu options will still be available on all pages
as part of the footer.
The second is a set of return-selectors acting
as a "crumb-trail" in
that it offers the user the shortest path back to the home page, allowing
them to go immediately back to Home or to any step in between.
In cases where the current page is one step away from the Home Page
with
no forward navigation options only the return-selectors
will appear.
The only other difference between the
home page and the sub-pages is the additional link to the original
main menu from the home page. As
on the home page these also appear as part of the footer.
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