Site Navigation: Home Page

On the home page, navigation is segmented in four ways:

• Assistance Items (upper right) are search utilities for finding people, places, and pages. Assistance items are on every page of the Georgia Tech site.
• Audience navigation combines information, resources, and links into collections aimed at specific audiences. For instance, a prospective student would expect to find links to admission, financial aid, parking and more on the Prospective Students audience page. Audience navigation is presented on the home page as a row of drop down menus.
• To the left of the main image are the most commonly requested site locations that don’t belong to a particular audience (we call these Trip Models). These items are presented in list form on the home page.
• Footer Navigation, available on every page, gives quick access to less frequently used (but important nevertheless) items such as Tech’s privacy policy and accessibility information.

Site Navigation: Sub-pages

On all sub-pages (below the home page), Audience Navigation and Trip Model Navigation are available via a drop-down ‘Shortcuts’ menu, in the upper right beneath the assistance items. Simply pick the desired location and hit the ‘GO’ button. Additionally, you can always return to the home page by clicking the Georgia Tech logotype in the upper left corner. And below the page title and images you’ll notice a ‘crumb trail’ that shows you the most direct path from the home page to the current page. Note that Assistance Items and Footer Navigation are in their same locations.

Getting Help

As with any Web site, there comes an occasional need to contact the individuals responsible for the content or technical aspects of the site. The Contact Us link in the footer of every page leads to a form that allows you to direct correspondence to an appropriate administrator, who will attend to your inquiry in a timely fashion. It is important to emphasize that selecting a specific topic area (first item in the contact form) will greatly speed the response to your note. Technical concerns should be directed to the ‘webmaster’.

Understanding the Acronyms

Like any large organization, Georgia Tech as amassed a sizeable campus ‘vernacular’. To better clarify some of the terms and abbreviations that one may find throughout the Georgia Tech Web presence, a simple glossary of terms can be found in the Tech Lingo section.

Site Requirements

The technical requirements of this site will cause problems for users who are not accessing the Web with a standards-compliant browser. The Georgia Tech Web presence was designed with fairly strict adherence to W3C specifications, and with accessibility in mind.

For optimum use, we recommend using a standards-compliant browser, that renders HTML and CSS according to W3C specifications. These browsers include, but are not limited to Netscape 6.x and newer, Internet Explorer 5.x and newer, Opera 5.x and newer, and Mozilla (all builds). These browsers have passed quality assurance tests on all contemporary Macintosh and Windows operating systems (OS8, 9, and X, as well as 98, 2000, NT, and XP respectively). Mozilla is also available for Unix users, and Linux users have Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and even Konqueror as options.