Technical

It is our aim to make the Information Point accessible to as many people as possible. Once someone has followed a link to our site we hope they are able to find the answers to their questions quickly or browse around the site with ease. With this in mind we have tried to keep the design of the site very simple and to follow some simple guidelines.

Images

All our images are provided with ALT tags, to serve as a text alternative to images when required. To view the site without images, in Internet Explorer, go to

View or Tools - Internet Options - Advanced

In the Multimedia section, remove the tick next to 'Show Pictures'

Click 'Apply' - Click 'OK'.

Screen Resolution

This site has been designed at a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels and is best viewed at this size.

Text

Our site does not allow you to change the font faces, background colours or text colours but it does allow you to alter text sizes.

To change the text size in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, on the menu at the top of the browser, go to

View - Text Size and select the size you require.

On Explorer 4, click 'Internet Options' on the View or Tools menu.

On the General Tab click 'Fonts' and select your preferred text size.

Alternatively, holding down the 'Ctrl' key on your keyboard and scrolling the page either up or down with your mouse will make text size bigger or smaller in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera browsers.

More information on changing text sizes can be found at MetNet

To change your text size in Netscape Navigator 4, go to View and select either Increase or Decrease font. You can also use keyboard shortcuts to do this in Netscape; 'Ctrl + ] ' for increase and 'Ctrl + [' for decrease.

Language and Translations

The site is in the English language and we aim to use clear and simple words to make translation and understanding easy. The Babel Fish translation tool has been provided on all our pages. Other translation tools include: Google Language Tools, Yahoo Language Tools, UK Student Life Translator.

Website Hosting

The Information Point is sponsored by net-work who provide our domain name and web hosting free of charge.

Usage

Site statistics can be viewed from each of our web pages and are provided by Bravenet who also provide our Guestbook and Guestmap.

Downloads

Our site includes various types of documents such as Word Documents and Adobe Pdf, the size of the document has been included alongside such documents.