Notes on readability and navigation
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.[1]
- 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
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
- there are two left side menus
- Use "Back to beginning" on the page menu to return to the top of the page
Mediawiki has powerful page navigation and search tools, which is a major reason it was selected for this website
- Hover or single click on an internal page link and a preview of that page will show
- 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
- ↑ 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.