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This website is a [[hyperlink]]ed set of how-to instructions about using the [[Internet]]. For how to use this site, see [[Start Here]].
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This website is [[User:Michael|Michael Slattery]]'s personal guide to using the [[Internet]]. It reflects my limited experience of using the web, mostly via a computer running [[Microsoft Windows]]. The site is currently rudimentary, an incomplete [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_in_progress work in progress]. Pages that are linked to but not yet created appear as [[red link]]s.
  
The site is currently '''under construction'''. Any text that is unfinished or in doubt is '''marked in bold characters'''. Articles that are linked to but not yet created appear as [[Red Links]].
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The companion to this site is my [http://interdb.org Internet Database], which contains a hodge-podge of poorly-digested information about people, websites and other stuff connected with the Internet.
  
[[User:Michael|Michael Slattery]] presents this information to help Internet users, and also as a showcase for the practice of [[Convivial Tools]] and [[Usability]]. The main goal is to provide convenient instructions to help make the basic tools of the Internet available to the uninitiated.
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Words to the wise: "Learning to use the Internet is a full-time job."
  
==Navigate this site==
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==Starting points==
*Getting started: [[Start Here]]
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All Categories are attached, directly or indirectly, to [[:Category:Root]].
*Root category of the site: [[:Category:Root]]
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==Is this website a wiki?==
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An explanatory list of the main Categories and Sub-Categories can be found here: [[Category List]]
This website runs on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] software, which is the wiki software used by Wikipedia. This might give the false impression that the website is a wiki. But in fact only registered users can edit pages, and the only registered user at the moment is [[User:Michael|Michael Slattery]].
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==Site development short-cuts (to be removed)==
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The following pages were intended as starting points (but they are incomplete and likely to be replaced by others):
*[[Sandbox]]
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*[[How to use a web browser]]
*[[Site Map]] (incomplete)
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*[[How to make a website]].
*[[Special:Wantedpages]]
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*[[Notes]]
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See also the manually-created [[Site Map]].
*[[:Category:Developer Pages]]
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==Is this website a wiki?==
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This website runs on [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki], the wiki software used by [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia]. That might give the impression that the website is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki wiki]. But in fact the only authorized user is [[User:Michael|yours truly]].
  
 
==Contact==
 
==Contact==
Comments or questions may be addressed to: michaelrobertslattery(at)gmail(dot)com
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Send email to: slatteraz(at)gmail(dot)com

Latest revision as of 13:09, 23 January 2014