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How to use this website

== About the website ==

=== Website platform ===
This website is built on MediaWiki, a content-management system (CMS) that is the same platform used by Wikipedia

* this site contains some Public Domain graphics hosted by Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
* the site is otherwise entirely unrelated to Wikipedia

=== Copyright ===
''All content copyright 2024-2025 by Michael L. Bromley. All rights reserved.''

== Notes on page readability ==

=== Page size, width, font size ===

* Use the "Appearance" menu to the right to adjust text size and page content width.
** body text width is set to 900px; for full screen view, select "width:wide" under top-right binoculars icon

=== Footnotes ===

* This page employs extensive footnotes for reference and further discussion of the in-line text.<ref>Example of a footnote. Mouse hover or single click will bring this footnote up as a popup (bottom of page on mobile view). Double click will take you to the References section.</ref>
** for ease of reading references, hover over (or touch) the footnote number and the notes will appear.
** if you click on the footnote number, it will take you to the References section at the bottom of the page.
** on mobile phones, touch and hold will show the footnote, whereas on Windows 11 tablets it will take you to the footnote; recommended is to your mouse hover either with a mouse or mousepad, or using the Windows virtual mousepad.

=== Images ===

* Click on images to enter full screen, slideshow view, which enables scrolling through all images

== Notes on article navigation: ==

=== Table of Contents ===

* Select expand menu on the top left to view Table of Contents
** there are two left side menus
*** Main menu for the entire site 
*** Page menu
** you can navigate to each section using the Table of Contents menu
** you can hide or expand each using the hamburger menu at the top left
* Use "Back to beginning" on the page menu to return to the top of the page 

== Notes on site navigation ==
Mediawiki has powerful page navigation and search tools, which is a major reason it was selected for this website

=== Page previews & navigation ===

* Hover or single click on an internal page link and a preview of that page will show
** ex. [[Saint Joan of Arc timeline]]
* Double click will open that page

=== Categories ===

* Pages are organized by category
** all pages directly related to the history of Saint Joan are content are posted in the "Saint Joan of Arc" category
** this page is part of the "Help" and "About categories

=== Search ===

* Search will suggest page titles that begin with your entered word
** note: the second word in a page title is not capitalized unless it is a proper noun
* Search will yield results for
** words that appear in a page title
** words that appear in page content

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