,
Seafriends: tips for using this
web site www.seafriends.org.nz/say/tips.htm
Congratulations on having found the Seafriends web site! This
page will help you to get the most out of your visit, so take the time
to read it. Did you know that the entire web site plus a very large video
slide show are available on CD? See below.
slideshows: incredible images at screen sized
resolution on CD
.
-- Seafriends home -- Revised: 20040514,20040607,20041220,20050803,20060206,20060228, purpose & goal The Seafriends web site is trying to make this a one-stop learning
place about our environment and how it suffers. But this cannot be done
overnight. It will take from 1997 to 2009, to complete this task, so have
patience. Already the most important subjects have been broached.
navigation The structure of this site has been kept simple, without unnecessary
graphics, bullets, frames, side bars and so on. We do not want to waste
your time, and besides, all pages should be printable so that you can hand
them out and share them with others.
Think of this site as a tree, with the home page as its main trunk.
From there spring subsidiary branches, branchlets and ultimately leaves.
Of each section we inform you of its size and state of completion, before
you need to click your way into it. Each chapter is large, covering several
pages
of print, complete with many photographs and drawings, that load as you
are reading the introduction.
Tip: watch the right-hand side bar on
each window, because most pages (documents) are many screenloads long.
Slide the slider bar down to view more, or use the arrow
keys on your keyboard, or page
up or page down,
home
and end keys.
The size of the slider gives you an idea of the length of the document.
If it is small, the document is long.
Tip: be familiar with the go
back function of your browser. It can be accessed
by clicking the back buttonor
by right-clicking and selecting the go back
option. In this way you navigate back up the tree to the superior sections
where you came from. it makes navigating clean and easy.
Tip: did you know that you can enlarge the size
of the text or make it smaller? Type CTRL
and + to enlarge
text and CTRL
and - to make
it smaller.
Tip: for a complete overview of the many subjects
and sections of this web site, use the site map,
accessible from the front page. Where the site map becomes too detailed,
it refers further to subsidiary site maps, such as the various classifications
of marine organisms, but for now, it is complete.
Tip: If you wish to save connection time, open
each subsidiary section in its own page (or tab), by right-clicking on
the link and selecting open in new window
(or new tab). After a while, you will have
amassed a large number of pages on your task bar, loaded into the computer's
cached files on disk, ready for reading. Disconnect the connection and
read them.
index pages You can trim the URL in your browser to go to the index
pages of higher hierarchy. In each folder or directory we have placed a
file
index.htm which your browser recognises
as a starting page. This page is always present and always contains an
index to the pages in that folder.
Example: Suppose you entered the Seafriends web site from
asking Google about marine conservation and the URL reads: http://www.seafriends.org.nz/issues/cons/marine.htm.
By trimming marine.htm off, to read
http://www.seafriends.org.nz/issues/cons/
you will enter the conservation directory, and likewise by trimming /cons/
off, you will enter the issues directory. In the end http://www.seafriends.org.nz/
will bring you to the root directory or Seafriends home page, from which
all pages follow.
window size The pages on this web site have been formatted with a view towards
printing efficiently. They are best viewed with a screen size of 800x600
pixels. When your screen is larger, say 1000x800 pixels, you may notice
images sometimes overlapping other images or tables. This is fixed easily
by 'normalising' the browser's window and adjusting its width to about
800 pixels. Click on the middle button in the top right corner of the browser
window. This reduces its size. Now drag the bottom-right corner to give
it a convenient aspect, such that the text is easy to read, while images
and tables appear normal.
searching A site search engine has been provided
to enable you to help you search for a particular topic. This facility
is now also provided on the front page. However, this search engine does
not work on the Seafriends CDs.
Enter the keywords of the subject you are looking for, and press RETURN
or click on the submit button. A page with search results appears. The
top of each page shows the page heading. Clicking on this heading leads
you to the beginning of the page. However, clicking on the keywords that
follow, lead you closer to the result.
Click here to read more about how to use the search
engine.
The edit/find option in the toolbar above
allows you to find words in the page. A shortcut key is CTRL/F.
To find the next occurrence, press FK3. In
modern browsers like Mozilla, you can just type letters on the page. Thus
by typing Moz, you will arrive at this line
and FK3 finds you the next occurrence.
printing This web site has taken great care in locating the information such
that it prints economically on paper, using the available paper and ink
as sparingly as possible. In this manner you can share the information
with others who are not connected to Internet.
Tip: don't start printing before all
images have been loaded. This shows with the message Document:
done in the status bar at the bottom of the
screen. To make sure all images have been loaded, scroll through the whole
page to verify this. Although the print option should load all images independently,
it has come to our attention that this is not always the case. Furthermore,
some Internet Explorer (IE) versions exhibited problems in loading large
pages with many images. Should images not show on your printout, click
the View/reload
(View/refresh
for IE) option, or ultimately, use a Netscape browser.
Tip: before printing, click file/printer
setup, and set your top and bottom margins
to 1-2cm (0.4-0.8 inch), and left and right margins to 1cm (0.4 inch).
By doing so, images can print side by side, which creates a neat layout.
It saves much paper too. At this point, also decide what you wish printed
at the top and bottom of the sheet. Page numbers and page title are preferable.
Deselect the printing of the background.
Tip: many printers use too much ink to render
photographs on normal printer paper (copy paper). The ink may run and the
images look too dark. Adjust the settings in your printer setup to reduce
the amount of ink used and save these settings. You may also slide the
darkness/brightness slider to brighter. This also extends the life of your
ink cartridges considerably.
In some sections, a faint background pattern is shown. It consists of a
small image which is tiled over and over again, thus taking little time
to load. But it may interfere with the printed output. Should you find
this annoying (and wasting precious printer ink), make sure that background
printing is turned off.
Tip: in Internet Explorer, click
Tools/Internet
Options, then the Advanced
tab and scroll down to printing
and deselect the box print background images
and colours.
In the entire web site, only two fonts are used: the variable font and
the Arial font, which is also known as Swiss or Helvetica. The Arial font
is used to make tables and inset boxes more compact, and to make them stand
out. It cannot be altered. The variable font as you are reading here, can
be altered. It is usually printed as Times-Roman, the kind of font used
in newspapers. This font is compact, well balanced, and easily readable
in poor light conditions. Should you prefer a different font for printing,
you can instruct your browser to substitute this variable font for some
other font, like Goudy. But make sure the font is capable of bolding
and italicising, since these are used throughout the web site. This
is how you set the variable font:
Tip: In Netscape Navigator, select
Edit/preferences,
then Appearance/fonts,
then select in the Variable Font
box the font of your liking. You can do it now. Check if bold and
italics
work. In order to revert back, select the Times
New Roman font again. You can speed the search
by entering the letter . in the font box.
In Internet Explorer, click Tools/Internet
options, select the General tab
and click the Fonts button.
In the Web Page Font box,
select the font of your liking. Try it now, and see if bold and
italics
work.
Tip: did you know that you can enlarge the size
of the text or make it smaller? Type CTRL
and + to enlarge
text and CTRL
and - to make
it smaller.
Note! Unfortunately both Internet Explorer and later versions of
Netscape and Mozilla, do not print the pages correctly as they allow images
and tables to be broken across page boundaries. Only the older version
4.7 of Netscape Communicator works well and you can download it from Internet
by searching for the installation file cc32e47.exe
(20MB). This bug has now been reported to the Mozilla development team
(April 2005). If you have the Seafriends CD, you can install it from D:\scrntx03\cc32e47.exe
(no virus). Google for 'cc32e47.exe'.
obtaining high resolution images For the sake of fast loading, and for lowering web site maintenance
costs, the images on this site are a compromise between legibility and
size. Usually 300 x 200 pixels, but sometimes 450 x 300, they are of low
resolution. Every care has been taken to render these images as crisp and
legible as is possible. However, should you wish to obtain high resolution
versions, please notify us by e-mail. For commercial
use, and for government institutions, there is a corresponding cost (NZ$
150-320, but prices may change), but for educational purposes, we attempt
to give them free of charge, except where printing runs are involved. Remember
though, that this web site is funded entirely privately, and that
donations and contributions are more than welcome.
High resolution images can also be obtained of every photo and diagram
on this web site (with very few exceptions).
page revisions It is the great merit of Internet publishing that it is affordable,
and that images in vivid colour do not appreciably add to cost. It is also
of unfathomable advantage that the information can be kept uptodate, and
need not turn obsolete. For this reason alone, changes and additions to
this site are made regularly, particularly in the months May to November,
when New Zealand is in winter sleep, and the physical activities at the
Seafriends Marine Conservation and Education Centre slow down.
Consult the What's New main section
of the web site, and that of each major subsidiary section. Each page also
has a revision status, with the most recent dates of updating (see the
last line on this page).
feedback to the author This web site has been written entirely by Dr Floor Anthoni, in consultation
with a wide range of publications. My aim is to produce a learning place,
so compact and efficient, and easy to read, that you will be able to learn
in a matter of days what took me many years to attain. Although every effort
has been made to represent the truth, errors will undoubtedly have crept
in, and these are entirely mine. It is the nature of this multiple faceted
and mulitple disciplined work, that peer review is almost impossible without
running into high costs and time delays. You, the reader, are therefore
invited to contribute in the form of constructive feedback, or even by
providing new information and things I may have overlooked. E-mail: Dr
Floor Anthoni.
reference documents While studying the pages on the Seafriends web site, you may wish to
keep a number of reference documents handy as printed copies.
Since all physical units have been standardised according to the International
Standard of units (SI system), also known as the 'metric' system, it is
convenient to have a print-out of the table of units
and conversons at hand. It also contains may formulas and conversion
factors.
Chemistry is an important knowledge in environmental matters, and reference
is frequently made to the natural elements and chemical formulas. It would
help to have a print-out handy of the Periodic
Table of Elements, which also contains a primer on basic chemistry.
Although all strange words have been explained somewhere in the text,
it is convenient to have a printout of the Environmental
Glossary at hand. You can also open it in a new window, for quick access
to the meaning of unfamiliar words. This glossary is worth reading in its
entirety for the amount of information it contains.
A separate geological glossary
covers the geological and soil terminology, and an extensive summary
of rock and soil types, soil biomes and soil chemistry is part of the extensive
section on soil.
the Seafriends CD At the beginning of 2004, the entire Seafriends web site became available
on CD. Now the 2006 edition is available for NZ$30 plus $5 for mailing
overseas (US$25 for CD incl p&p). To obtain your own copy, e-mail to
the Seafriends e-mail address and pay by cheque
or bank draft or pay with your credit card through PayPal, by clicking
on the purchase button below. You can now access over 2700 printed pages
and 5000 drawings and photographs almost instantaneously, as well as 5
slide shows with over 2000 screen-sized images. You can copy the information
to your hard drive for even more convenient access. But remember that Seafriends
very much needs your support, so donate generously. We keep adding to this
web site, so update your own treasure regularly. Do not copy the Seafriends
CD but make your contribution help us.
The CD is like having a whole educational encyclopedia of New Zealand's
seas right on your own computer. Open the home page
D:\index.htm
(assuming that D: is your CD drive) with your
internet browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape). You can also copy the
whole CD to a folder like C:\seafriends\.
To start browsing on your hard drive, open the home page C:\seafriends\index.htm.
Mark this homepage as a bookmark or favourite.
But there is more . . . a number of slide show with over 2000 images
of our aquatic world. Read more below.
Congratulations!
You have acquired instant access to the complete Seafriends web site. This
unique compendium of advanced knowledge informs you of the environmental
problems of our seas and the world at large. It documents the seas around
New Zealand and our efforts to save these from the unintentional effects
of fishing and degradation from the land. But this work is never finished.
Every year we make considerable additions to this site, so make sure you
have the latest version. This is version 2011, uptodate to June 2011.
This
CD is written in standard ISO CD format using the international Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML) and is therefore compatible with all past and present
computers, operating systems and internet browsers. This CD does not always
start by itself, nor does it install itself on your computer or copy files
to your hard drive. It is therefore also completely safe and has been certified
virus-free. You must open the home page D:index.htm, 0r D:autorun.htm
assuming D: is your CD drive. How this is done depends on your situation.
For
example, in Windows XP the web site starts automatically with the autorun
page (autorun.htm). In all other cases proceed
as normal: click the Start
key, then Run
and enter d:index.htm
or d:autorun.htm,
then click OK.
Bookmark the home page for further access.
Please
note that the search engine does not work on the CD version. Use the web
site www.seafriends.org.nz should you wish to search by keyword.
To
enjoy the slide shows, click on tips
on the home page and follow the instructions.
Remember previous CD editions?
2004
2005
2006
2011
.
slide shows The Seafriends CD contains thousands of large colourful images of our
seas, each complete with a small description. Unlike those on our web site
which have been sized to 300x200 pixels for optimal Internet response,
the images on CD are fully 800x600 pixels to fill an entire computer screen.
They aim to show what our seas look like, an incredible kaleidoscope of
habitats and creatures representing the whole of the New Zealand underwater
world and further away.
It is the culmination of many years of underwater photography devoted
to illustrate the glory of this cryptic inheritance. But the work is never
finished. Each year many more photographs are added to this collection
while good photos of rare organisms are attained only gradually. So get
the most recent version of the Seafriends CD in order to remain uptodate
- a collectors' item indeed.
With Windows' Explore program, open the
folder
D:\scrntx03\ (where D:
is your CD drive). It contains a readme.txt
file, a copy of which is shown in the box below. Here are all the instructions
to activate your own slide show. It is also necessary to set your screen
for reproducing colour photographs faithfully (sRGB
colour profile), which is different from that for colour video.
A free slide show program
GPhotoShow is included
for people with windows versions Win98 or earlier, but it also works on
most recent Windows versions. To install it, doubleclick on D:\scrntx03\gPhotoShow.exe
(virus-free). The following slide shows are now available:
The quickest way to access these slideshows is by going to the autorun
page which starts when the Seafriends CD is loaded. From here you can
also play slideshows in your browser but with Window's Explore
you can select and copy all favourite images to your own screensaver in
a folder like C:\scrnsvr\.
Notes for enjoying
the screensaver slide show (/scrntx03/readme.txt file)
This disc contains Floor Anthoni's
underwater images in a form suitable for showing on a computer screen of
800 by 600 pixels or larger. The images have been provided with a narrative
and saved in JPEG format with sufficient compression to get more than 10
images on a floppy disk. (about 8 per megabyte)
You can copy these images
to a folder on your disk (say, C:\scrnsvr\ ) or leave them to run from
CD.
Windows Millennium edition
(and later ones) has an in-built slide show. To activate it, do as follows:
right-click on the
desktop and select properties.
Then click the tab for screensaver In the drop-down list, select
'my pictures screensaver' Click the settings
button to tell it where the pictures directory is. Also set the transition
speed and maximum size.
Exit
In the screensaver menu,
set the timeout value to a few minutes or whatever suits you.
Exit.
The CD also contains
a free screensaver, obtained from the Internet. To install it, double click
on the file d:\scrntx03\gPhotoShow.exe. It will guide you through
the installation procedure.
Once installed, activate
it using the procedure above, but select gPhotoShow from the drop-down
list. This screensaver also plays music, so tell it where the music is
found. For this purpose, a number of classical piano pieces have been included
on this disk, as MIDI files.
After installation, the screensaver
can also be found in Start/programs/gPhotoShow/ . This version starts
immediately, without waiting.
For best viewing, you may
need to pay some attention to your screen's settings (Windows 98 or more
recent). When images look rather contrasting, their highlights bleaching,
Select the sRGB colour profile as follows:
Right-click on your
desktop and select properties.
Select the tab 'settings',
then click the 'advanced' button.
Select the tab 'color
management' Add to the profiles listed
'sRGB color profile', then select it.
Reverse out of all windows
and close the desktop properties.
The effect of these settings
are that the images look quite real, and like they were intended.
Enjoy the show.
Of course, you can use your
knowledge to make a screensaver slideshow of your own pictures.
You may notice that your
screensaver cuts out before finishing. This is most likely due to the energy
saving settings of your computer's screen and disk. Here is how you adjust
these:
Click the Start button,
then Settings, then Control Panel. Double-click Power
Options and adjust the settings for 'Turn off monitor' and 'Turn
off hard disk'. With 6-8 seconds per picture, the slide show can easily
take 4 hours to finish!
The screensaver may show
a fuzzy image before the sharp image if it also displays the very small
thumbnails (f012345t.jpg) contained in the \tn\ subfolder. To avoid
this, unclick the recursive option or copy all large pictures (f012345v.jpg)
into a separate folder.
Congratulations!
You have acquired instant access to the complete Seafriends web site. This
unique compendium of advanced knowledge informs you of the environmental
problems of our seas and the world at large. It documents the seas around
New Zealand and our efforts to save these from the unintentional effects
of fishing and degradation from the land. But this work is never finished.
Every year we make considerable additions to this site, so make sure you
have the latest version. This is version 2011, uptodate to June 2011.
