Neighborhood signposts

These signposts will guide you

around the Live Sensibly site:

• The logo tops the page wherever you go. Clicking on it will bring you back to the home page.
• Clicking on my headshot will launch an email message from you to me.
• The building blocks for the site are entries (also called posts). Each entry is assigned to a category.
• The other building blocks for the site are comments made by readers, each attached to a specific entry.
• The home page shows the 15 most recent entries. Clicking on the title of any entry takes you to its single entry page, where you can see comments folks have made and leave one of your own.
• The first date on the home page is when the most recent entry was published. On a single entry page it the date that entry was published.
• A page description blurb tells you what type of page you’re looking at, such as the home page, a single entry page, category listing, or table of contents.
• On a single-entry page, the blurb tells you how many comments folks have made. You can click on the comment count to drop down to the comments or on “add a comment” to post your own thoughts.
• Next on a single-entry page, this bar shows you titles of the previous and next entries and lets you navigate to them.
• Clicking on the title of an entry takes you to its single entry page. Clcking on the category (like What Works) brings you to a page showing that entry with others from the same category. (Warning to dial-up users: The category page can be large, and might be slow to load.)
• The site search box gives up-to-date search results on any entries posted to the site.
• Hovering over any link will tell you what happens if you click the link. Try it out here.
• Hovering over the links at the right tells you a bit more about what’s there.
• You get to decide how you want to wander through the site. Maybe you like seeing everything in chronological order. You can start with the very first entry (get there by selecting site contents followed by master list by date, or by following monthly archives backwards to February, 2004) and page forward, or start with the most recent entry on the home page and work your way backward.
• The comments page summarizes what other folks have had to say here. You can list either the entries on which comments have been posted most recently, or a full list of comments beginning with the latest.
• The glossary lists commonly-used terms within Live Sensibly.
• If you’re most interested in a single category, like personal journeys, click that category in the side bar. From there (or any other category page) you can open individual entries or you can use the navigation bar like the one shown here to look at the entire category’s entries from the last to the first, first to last, or in alphabetical order.
• For summary-level looks at the site, check out the site contents. You’ll start out looking at a list by category and date; from there you can use the navigation bar at right to switch to views by category and title, or a master list by date, or an alphabetical master list.
• Dial-up internet users: Individual entry pages and tables of contents will load more quickly than pages labeled “Full Posts”.
• Printing from the site has been set up to give you only the content, dropping the right column, as shown in this downsized sample. (Test it out by looking at a print preview in your browser.)

I want you to feel at home here, especially if the internet or this site feels strange to you at first. It is important to me that Live Sensibly use easily accessible language and technology. If you have any questions or feedback, please don’t be shy! Let me know what you think in an email or by leaving a comment.