This site is designed to be easy to navigate and utilize, although as with anything involving computers there is bound to be something that isn’t obvious.

If you have questions not answered here, please contact webmaster@eecs.case.edu.

The website is primarily navigated using the section bar on the left side, below the large Case logo. This contains links to the main sections of the site.

When you are in a given section, the section bar changes color to indicate the section you’re in.

Some of these sections also have sub-sections underneath. When you are at a page in such a section (for example: Technical Resources) the section bar will add those sub-sections underneath the current section.

The search box is discussed below, under Finding Things.

The Related Sites box in the lower portion of the navigation bar has links exclusively to sites other than the EECS website, which may be relevant to the content of the page you’re currently viewing.

This part of the navigator bar will change depending on the page you’re currently viewing. We try not to depend solely on this box for links; anything that is actually significant or useful will either be exclusively in the page itself or in both places at once. Its just there for your added convenience (and because Case says there needs to be a Related Sites box).

Below the Related Sites box, in the lower left corner, is another box referred to as the Tools.

The lower left corner has three links of use for users who have not logged in:

• Recent changes
• Index
• Login

If you log in (and do not have editor access), you will also see:

• Subscribe
• Backlinks

These links are discussed further down this page.

Pages are organized into sections, of which the primary ones are all displayed on the navigation bar. Generally pages that have some bearing on each other are in the same section.

Links on a given page will most often take you to other pages within the EECS site; some links do go to external pages, and are not distinguished graphically. Should you encounter a red link, it means that there is no corresponding page either due to our error or because we’re in the process of modifying things.

Following a red link will lead you to a page which lists other pages in the same section, in the hopes that one of those pages is what you were actually looking for.

Pages can contain images, many of which are scaled down versions of larger images in order to fit within the page better. In most cases you can view the full size image by clicking on the image; although in some cases the image will take you to an external site (in the case of logos and banners for other groups).

Some links have icons next to them, such as a PDF icon. This means that the link points to one of these types of documents, which will require the corresponding program to view (e.g. Acrobat or compatible programs for PDF).

The search box allows you to find pages within the site using a built-in search engine; it does not depend on Google or another outside search engine like most of the sites at Case, and so in theory you may have better luck with it (at least it will be more up-to-date).

The search box does not search within documents (such as PDF files), only the site’s pages are searched.

Index will take you to the full, always up-to-date site index, which you can use to navigate around the site instead of the navigation bar. Lines that begin with an arrow icon represent sections; if you click on one of those it will expand to show the pages and sub-sections inside. Lines that begin with a box icon represent pages.

One of the options added when you log in to the site, besides Subscribe, is called Backlinks.

A backlink is a reverse link; basically, if you are on a page and click on Backlinks, it will show you a list of all of the other pages on our site that link to the page you were on.

This is often only useful for people with editor access, although there are some times it can come in handy for normal users as well.

If you were to go to Glennan 808 and click Backlinks, it will then show a list of professors who have graduate students assigned to that room.

There are other similar uses for the Backlinks functionality, which are left as an exercise to the reader.

Recent changes will show you the pages that have been changed (and what was changed, with an optional summary) recently. This could be helpful if you want to see what’s new on the site. Lines in regular text are normal changes, lines in italics are considered to be minor changes (usually fixing typos or moving around the same content).

If you log in to the site (using the very bottom left corner link), you will be presented with two additional options besides Recent changes and Index, one is a link called Subscribe.

If you click on Subscribe when viewing a page of our site, you will be notified via e-mail to your Case e-mail account about changes made to that page. The link will also change to say Unsubscribe on all the pages you are subscribed to; you can click on it to stop receiving e-mail notifications about changes.

The EECS site also provides RSS feeds for each section and the site as a whole. More information about using this functionality is available at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:syndication

Logging in to the site provides some additional features not available otherwise. For one thing, its the only way to edit a page if you have editor access. But even if you don’t, it adds Subscribe and Backlinks links (discussed above) to your Tools.

This site is integrated with the Case Network ID authentication system. In order to log in, you will need to have a valid Case Net ID (e.g. sak8). If you experience trouble logging in, you can make sure that your account is valid and your password is correct at https://its-services.case.edu/middleware/NetworkTools/pwdCheck/

Contact webmaster@eecs.case.edu if you continue to have trouble with logging in to the site. So far no one ever has.

Everything above also applies to people with editor access, and there are additional features besides.

The primary difference is that editors have been granted access to create, modify or delete pages on the site.

In order to edit the site, you must have been granted editor access by the Webmaster. If you think you ought to have editor access to a page or section but don’t, contact webmaster@eecs.case.edu.

Once you have logged in to the site, you will see two additional Tools besides the ones discussed above.

• Edit this page
• Old versions

No matter what page you’re editing, they all use the same Formatting Syntax. That page goes over the different types of syntax that can be used on a page. When in doubt either:

• Try things and click the Preview button to see what it comes out as
• Look at the source of a similar page and emulate it

• Please use Preview as much as possible, and then Save once when things look the way you want.
• Use the Edit Summary box to briefly describe the changes you made, so that others can quickly see what’s new. Also check the Minor Changes box if you didn’t do much to the page; fixing a typo or a minor tidying up fall into that category.
• Try to be as clear and concise as possible when writing a page. Sometimes the clearest and best way to put things involves a lot of words; a lot of the time it does not.

The title of each page is determined not by the name of the page (e.g. website) but by the first title that appears on the page. When you link to a page, such as [[tech:home]], the title of that page will be used as the text of the link.

If you don’t want the title to be used as the link text, you can override that behavior by making a link like so:

[[tech:home|Link Text]]

You should only do that when you really need to, not all the time. If all of the links on the site to [[people:emf4]] were in the form [[people:emf4|Elizabethanne Fuller]] there would be a lot more work involved in changing her name all over the site when it becomes Elizabethanne Fuller-Murray.