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Here are some guidelines on how to use this site. It's fairly intuitive and most of you will rarely have to visit this page. We used to stick all these instructions on the main pages. Big mistake! (:-( )

Folks got lost in the instructions and often never found their way into the content itself. We hope you'll find the removal of all instructions to this Help Page makes the site a lot cleaner.

Table of Contents (TOC) of this help page

• What browser works with this website?
• What's here?
• How to View This Site
• Navigation tips for the Merike Lugus Art Gallery

What browser works with this website?

Probably most recent browsers will work satisfactorily. But the ones I am familiar with are Netscape and Internet Explorer. The most recent free downloads can be obtained here:

• Netscape
  • Netscape 7.2 for Mac OSX
  • Netscape 8.0 for Windows
• Internet Explorer
  • Internet Explorer 5.2.3 for Mac OSX
  • Internet Explorer 5.1.7 for Mac OS 8.1 to 9.x
  • Internet Explorer 6 SP 1 for windows

See also below for suggestions as to browser settings and navigation tips.

What's Here?

The Merike Lugus Art Gallery on the Web consists of two main sections: painting and sculpture. Here you will find:

• links to Lists of My Paintings
• links to Lists of My Sculptures
• the lists come in six flavours: either in reverse chronological order (most recent works first) or alphabetical order -- and for each of these: a listing with no images on the list, with thumbnail images on the list, or with small images on the list
• whichever list you choose, it will in turn link you to either medium-sized or large images of each work in question (which will open in a separate page -- together with explanations)
• as a default I would recommend: the reverse chronological list with thumbnail images
• the lists with no images load the fastest -- but in most cases the lists with thumbnail images should load reasonably quickly -- the lists with small images take a little longer to load into your browser
• it depends on your preference and on your Internet connection speed
• here are the lists -- click on your choice:

How to View This Site

If you have a standard 640x480 screen, set your browser window to cover the whole screen. In Netscape you may want to turn off Toolbar, Location, and Directory Buttons under the Options Menu in order to maximize the window size for graphical and score viewing. In Internet Explorer you may want to turn off the Button Bar and Favorites Bar under the View Menu. If you have a larger screen you can ignore the last sentences. I assume you've already set the font to a comfortable size for your viewing. If not, you can adjust the font - in Netscape under Options/General Preferences/Fonts; in Internet Explorer font size under the View Menu and font face under Edit/Preferences/Web Browsers/Language-Fonts.

Warning: some of the pages are heavily graphic-laden. The faster your modem the better.

Navigation tips for the Merike Lugus Art Gallery

At the top of each page you'll see a navigation line like:

• Clicking on About will take you to the Merike Gallery About page -- telling you briefly about the Merike Lugus Art Gallery on the Web (what it is, who I am, etc.)
• Clicking on What's New will take you to the Merike Gallery What's New page -- telling you what's new this season at the Merike Lugus Art Gallery on the Web.
• Clicking on Merike's Art will take you to the top page in this section, namely the Merike Lugus Art Gallery on the Web
• Clicking on RodMer Home will take you to the top page of the whole RodMer art site (including painting, sculpture, music, short stories, and poetry).
• Clicking on Links will take you to a Art Gallery Links page (actually at the moment just some general art-related links around the web)
• Clicking on Help will take you to the Merike Gallery Help page (the page you are now reading). Hopefully, it will answer most of your questions.

Just below the heading at the top of the page, you will see a Location line. This shows the page you are on now and its parent, grandparent, etc. -- just to orient you within the hierarchy of this site.

From time to time a link will open a second browser window. Simply close this second browser window when you are finished with it.