How to use this web site

This web site is constructed as a wiki, using the DokuWiki software, to allow easy and quick modifications by authorised users. It's just like a normal web site. If you click on a highlighted link, you will usually open a new page (in the same tab of the same browser window, replacing the current page).

The web browser will show a menu bar with a slightly lighter background shade, above the main content of the page, which you can use to move quickly to another part of the web site. The information in the menu will always be arranged in the same way, whichever page you are viewing. The menu shows the main groups of pages, and if you move the mouse over it or tap on it, pages within the chosen group will appear, in a hierarchical manner.

A “Table of Contents” for a page may appear at the top right of the main panel when the page becomes complicated enough to warrant one.

Note that the layout of the pages is adjusted automatically when using small devices such as mobile phones and tablets with small screens. For example, if the screen is too narrow to show the menu bar, it is replaced by a menu icon with three bars. Similarly, the table of contents may be replaced by a link to it. If the text is too small for comfortable reading,

• On a computer with a keyboard, you can enlarge the text by holding the Ctrl key down and pressing the plus (+) key, several times if need be, or shrink it using the minus (-) key, as commonly used with many other web sites.
• On a tablet or phone, you probably already know how to enlarge things by using two fingers to stretch the page.

The pages are arranged in hierarchically nested groups, so that each page has a “parent” page at the level above and “sibling” pages at the same level.

Like ordinary web pages, every page has a title, which appears at the top of the panel, and also in some web browsers in the title bar of the browser window. Our wiki pages also have short names, which appear, along with the short names of the “parent” pages in the hierarchy, in the web page address or “URL”, as shown in the location bar at the top of some web browsers.

There are several aids to finding your way around.

• If you click or tap on the title “Fordingbridge Conservation Group” at the very top of the page, you will return to the “home” page.
• The menu bar is described above.
• Below the menu bar and above the main part of the page you may see a grey bar with “Trace:” followed by a list of the titles of the past few pages you have visited, making it easy to go back to a recently visited page. This is similar to the way your web browser may provide a way to step back to previously visited pages. You can click on a page title to go straight to that page.
• On a long page, there may be a table of contents at the top right, listing the sections within the currently displayed page.
• If you don't know where to look for something, type a relevant word in the “Search” box at the bottom right, below the main part of the page.

[Coming soon!]

In the meantime, to know more about the technical aspects of this wiki, refer to About DokuWiki.

Some pages may not be visible unless you log on with an appropriate account. Most pages may be viewed and comments added to the Discussion by anyone. Some pages may require you to log in before you can edit them or create new pages ¹⁾

Note that the “Last modified” time shown at the bottom of every page is the 24-hour time in UTC (GMT), not the local time where you are, and the date is shown in the international way (day/month/year).

Enjoy!