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Finding your way around this siteTake a look at the sidebar on the left. The links in the sidebar will help you find what you are looking for. New to the site? Following the links in this section of the sidebar should help you find out what Taken In Hand is all about. Don't miss What you need to know about Taken In Hand, which contains important background information about Taken In Hand ideas. I strongly advise those new to the site to read FAQ (answers to frequently-asked questions) and to take the tour. Articles In this section of the sidebar you will find a variety of lists and ways of searching the articles on the site. The main articles on the site are on the front pages, with the most recent at the top of the page and the oldest at the bottom. Links to earlier front page articles are at the foot of the page. You can find a complete list of all front page articles by clicking the Front page articles link. That page lists them in chronological order, starting with the most recent article and ending with the one posted first. To see a list of all the front page articles in the opposite order, click the appropriate link at the top of this page. To see an alphabetically-ordered list of front page articles, click the List alphabetically link in the sidebar on the left. Not all articles are on the front page. To see all the articles (not including posts on the readers' forum) by a particular writer, including those not on the front page, but not including posts on the readers' forum or on the Yahoo group, click on that writer's name in the List all by author link in the sidebar. Don't miss these pages Not all pages are articles. This section of the sidebar lists some pages that are not articles. For example, one very popular area of the site is the Quotations section. Reader discussions Note that readers participate in discussions all over the site, not just in the “readers' forum”, so this section of the sidebar should be called “Reader-initiated discussions” rather than just “Reader discussions”. Below each article on the site, you will find discussions of the article starting the thread. Under each article on the site, you will find an “add new comment” link. Click that link to have your say. If what you want to post is about a side issue or not directly related to any article you can find on the site, click on the link to the readers' forum and start a new topic there. For those readers who like Yahoogroups, there is a Taken In Hand yahoo group. Submit an article! In this section you will find a link to the contributors' guidelines for those wanting to write articles for Taken In Hand. Please consider writing an article for us. One of the great strengths of this site is that we have so many different writers all contributing. Technical & admin Amongst other things you can find out how to contact Taken In Hand via a link in this section. Navigation There are several navigation links in the sidebar on the left. For example, the unread content link, which lists just up to 30 of the posts you have not read (or which have been changed since you last read them). Please note that to see the unread content link in the sidebar, you have to be registered and logged in. (This is free and on no account will we share your address with anyone.) Other such links include the new comments link, which lists comments you have not read, and the all comments link, which lists all comments in chronological order, with the newest at the top. Articles you have not read (or which have been changed since you last read them) appear in the unread articles link. Note that to avoid overwhelming you, this link shows you a maximum of 30 unread articles. There may be many more you have not read. To read all front page articles, see the link to Front page articles. To read all articles on the site, search by author and go through each article of each author one by one. To see most of these navigation links, you need to be logged in. Further Information This is a dynamic site! Note that I often delete posts approved in a discussion only a matter of hours earlier (for example, if they seem spiteful, or if a moderator has approved something that violates the posting rules), so to be sure not to miss anything, visit the site often. Searching the site If you are looking for a list of articles about a particular topic, you can do a search for it. Click on the search link at the top or the bottom of any page on the site, or click the Search by keyword link in the sidebar. Posting on the site To post something on-topic but not specifically related to an article on the site, create a new topic in the reader's forum. Please read this page before posting and observe the posting rules. Due to persistent trolls and spammers and suchlike, the entire site is currently moderated, so forgive the delays. I sometimes temporarily bump a readers' forum post up to the front page of the site. If you notice that a post has disappeared, it is probably still there on the reader's forum. If it was not a forum post, it will still be on the site, just not on the front page. You can reach non-front page articles by clicking on the List all by author link (see the sidebar on the left). 2004 Feb 11 - 12:17 | login or register to post comments | latest article | previous article | next article | permanent link
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