Navigating This Site
General guidelines for navigating
Above the Bicycling Monterey banner, several category names are shown. Click on any of those for posts from that category. For example, Children and Teens category.
Below the banner are pages. Think of that as more “permanent” info. For example, the Bicycle Shops, Services, Clubs, and Resources page.
On the sidebar (at right), you’ll find various items, such as:
- donate button, to make a donation via PayPal
- the window to search the Bicycling Monterey website
- an archive window, where you may choose to view all posts in any given month
- how to subscribe to the Bicycling Monterey website or its RSS feed
- other info, including the “Tips for Bicycling Monterey County” guide, with its 20 individual sections immediately visible. (You can also access the 20-section guide by clicking on Tips for Tourists/Residents below the banner.)
To search, try the usual:
Let’s say you want to know if there’s a hostel in Monterey County. Find it fast:
- Type “hostel” in this site’s search window.
- Some post titles will pop up. Click on the first (or any) title.
- Then, type “hostel” in your browser’s find window.
- Voila! You have hostel info.
Use quotation marks for phrases:
As usual, putting a phrase in quotation marks often gets better search results.
Using your browser’s “Find” window:
Once you are on a page where you hope to find particular information, you can usually find that info most easily by using the “find” window of your browser.
What’s a browser?
Don’t worry, I won’t laugh. I’m a Lead Pencil Girl Gone Techno myself!
Duck Duck Go, as well as major web browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari, are all examples of browsers.
A browser’s “find” window allows you to search (up and down/next and previous) for all references on a website’s page.
Can’t find what you’re looking for?
An aside: Which browser to use?
Read DuckDuckGo.com’s dontbubble.us page to learn about the Filter Bubble and why your choice of browser makes a difference in your search results. To learn more, read Eli Pariser’s book The Filter Bubble (available at the Monterey Public Library) or check out #filterbubble online: thefilterbubble.com
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Volunteer to improve navigation and more
So many tech chores, so little time—for biking, that is, if I were to tend to everything on this site that I’d like to.
Any WordPress savvy people (or wannabes) out there with time on their hands are encouraged to join the volunteers on the Acknowledgements page by contacting me, 831.375.6278.
