CSUEB Catalog 2007-2008: Help

Help

	The World Wide Web
	Catalog Buttons
	Finding Information
	Contacting the Staff

The World Wide Web

If you've reached this page, you probably know a bit about the World Wide Web, but here are a few basic guidelines:

The program you are using to view Web pages is called a browser. To make sure you're seeing the Online Catalog correctly, you should be using a browser like Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer (latest versions are highly recommended).

Throughout the Catalog, you will find words that are underlined like this. These are called links. Clicking on a link will take you to another page, or another section of the page you're reading.

If you find yourself lost after doing a lot of clicking, you can always hit the browser's Back button to return to your previous location. This button is usually located in the top left of the browser window, just below the File menu. The button will say "Back," or it will look like a left arrow, or both. You can keep hitting the Back button as many times as you need to return to your desired location.

Clicking the Catalog's Home button from anywhere in the Catalog will return you to the Table of Contents. This is the Home button located on the top left of any Catalog page.

Catalog Buttons

You'll find four buttons on the top left (and bottom left) of every page of the Catalog. These buttons are:

Home
Clicking this button returns you to the Table of Contents. If you're already at the Table of Contents, clicking this button will return you to the front page of the Cal State East Bay site.

Find
Clicking this button takes you to the Find page, where you can search the Catalog for text.

Mail
Clicking this button takes you to a "Campus Contacts" page with telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of special interest to students and prospective students.

Help
Clicking this button takes you to the Help page, which you are currently reading.

Finding Information

To find a certain Catalog page, use the Table of Contents, which lists every page in the Catalog. (To get to the Table of Contents, click the Home button just below the Cal State East Bay 2007-2008 icon.) Look through the list and click on the name of the page you want.

You will find a section list at the top of most pages. This is a list of all the section headings featured in a given page. Clicking on any section name in this list takes you directly to that section.

If you don't know what page you want (for example, if you have a professor's name or a course title in mind, but you don't know what department they're in), you can use the Catalog's Find page. (To get to the Find page, click the Find button on the top left of any Catalog page.)

To use the Find page simply type the words or phrases you want to find, and hit the Do It button. A list of pages containing your search words comes up. Click on any of the pages in the list. You will be taken to that page.

Once you are at a page containing your search words, you can use the browser's Find feature to find those words in the page. Choose Find from your browser's Edit menu, type your search words, and hit Enter. You will be taken to the next occurrence of your search words in the page.

If the page you chose is not the one you want, you can hit the browser's Back button to go back to the list of Find results.

Contacting the Staff

Clicking on the Mail Button on the top left of any Catalog page will take you to a "Campus Contacts" page.