Global Development Network: Getting around

GDNet supports southern researchers to contribute and debate ideas in development thinking, policy and practice.

Getting Around

Navigating GDNet

We hope that you will find GDNet an intuitive site to move around. However, it is a large site, so we would like to provide a brief introduction to the navigational features of the site to make sure you can find the information you need and you always know where you are.

This part of the site is intended for people who may not be familiar with the conventions for getting around on the internet which this site uses. If the navigation is unfamiliar to you, it will be useful to read this section as you will find that these tools for moving around within the site appear on many large websites, making this highly transferable knowledge.


	Homepage				Orange tabs				Crumb trail

The homepage is a shop window of the latest and best content drawn from within the site. It is updated weekly, the left hand Latest News column contains the latest news from GDN and regional networks, whilst the Research in Focus column contains highlights of the latest from the social science community worldwide that has been added to GDNet. To view any piece of information click More », this convention applies across the site. You can return to the homepage from any page within the site by clicking the GDN logo at the top of the page.

The different types of information within GDNet have been organized into sections. Each major section has an orange tab which appears at the top of every page in the GDNet site. These tabs act as folders, when you click on a tab you will open the folder which contains a page introducing the contents of the folder. The major parts of the section you have chosen will appear in a blue bar at the top of the page. You can then chose to move deep inside the folder by selecting a subsection from the top bar and then clicking on the links that will appear in the blue box on the left. Alternatively you can look at a different section by choosing a different orange tab at the top of the page.

As you move away from the homepage, your progress will be tracked by a crumb trail at the top of the middle of the page which indicates which parts of the site you have visited so you will always know where you are. The crumb trail works in relation to the homepage, if you move horizontally in the site by clicking on a different orange tab, the sections featured in the crumb trail will change. To go back to any page you have visited, click the relevant link in the crumb trail.