Site Layout

• How many pages are arranged
• In-Text Icons

How many pages are arranged

Firstly, the upper, left picture on a page is clickable, and takes you to the portal page. Below that picture are the page's display key (its three numbers), followed by a set of text links to assist navigation: 'Set', 'Section', 'Queries', and 'Search'.

Display codes. Three numbers typically appear on the top of pages (not this one); the numbers areseparated by two markers. Thus, 1 › 1 › 2 shows a page that appears in the Site Map's archive 1, its section 1, and is work no. 2 there. [Find 1 › 1 › 2] [See the collection that 1 › 1 › 2 is allotted to.]

The page numbered 1 › 1 › 2 contains a series of fixed links. They are:

Set

there takes you to a cluster (set, group) of topically related pages. [Click on "Set" for an example.] The Front Page (click on the upper, left picture to get there) brings a list of the sets that are rigged up, and invites to a round tour through them.

Section

on a page typically takes you straightway to the archive section where the page is placed in the Site Map, if you would like to see what other pages are put nearby it there.

Queries

You get to the top of the Site Map by clicking on 'Queries'. And if you want to learn a few things about the site, 'Queries' brings in view some links to explore.

Search

is for site searches and offers links to a selection of dictionaries and so on.

The site map's What's New link takes you to a page that shows most additions to the site. The site map's User's Guide contains straight information too, and a page's 'Queries' takes you to the top of the site map directly.

In-Text Icons

Text markers - notably the pink 1, 2, and 3 numbers - show three levels and steps of a special discourse design. See: [Essay markers] [Essay design]

Here and there are quotation markers too - they are small pictures that in part help identify the source of the quotation. A Buddhist quotation may serve as an example:

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men [Dhammapada 78].

The icon is a wheel with eight spokes, which represents the eightfold path, also called the (gentle) Middle Way, which is the heart of Buddhism.

Linking

Outgoing links should regularly have a ◦ or similar in front, as a little service, but it is not fully implemented yet. But you can let your marker hover (keep it still a little while) on a link to see if it is outgoing, and/or where it takes you.

Bottom Lines

At the bottom or rear of a page there is typically a list of the literature made use of or referred to on the page. If such list is missing, incomplete, or you want to look into more along such lines, click on Literature heading there, to get to some thousand book references. You get to that bibliography from the 'User's Guide' too.

There may be other links at bottom too, and notes, as the case may be.

On some pages there is a text link to the site's 'User's Guide', and on most pages there is a disclaimer and a link to the site owner's e-mail address, and some more handy information.