Help

By Nick Willson  Monday, 15. January 2007 23:59:05

The ADSHG wants to help you find trustworthy, unbiased and clear information on Addison's disease quickly and easily so you can make informed decisions about your health.

• There is so much information here, sometimes I have difficulty finding my way around.

• I still can't find the information I'm looking for. What now?

• I am confused by your web address as sometimes I see it referred to as www.addisonsdisease.org.uk and sometimes as www.adshg.org.uk

• Sometimes I have difficulty printing the information out which is displayed on my screen. What can I do to fix this?

• What is a PDF file and why do I need to download special software to view it?

There is so much information here, I sometimes have difficulty finding my way around.

The website is organised into a number of major sections, all accessible from the homepage. You can always get to the homepage by clicking the ADSHG logo in the top left hand corner of any page. The navigation bar at the top of each page contains links to the index pages of all the major sections, which are also a great place to look back at past information or topics. Extensive use is made of links to pages within this website and to other websites. Try moving your mouse over the page and it should change into a hand and the item should become underlined if it is a link. Basically anything looking like this: a link back here is a link and can be clicked and so can the pictures.  Text which is purple like this is generally a heading and not a link.

I still can't find the information I'm looking for. What now?

Try using the sitemap which gives a good "at-a-glance" overview of the site's contents. The sitemap can be reached by using the link contained at the bottom of each page. Alternatively use our website search facility by clicking the search icon which is on top of each page.

I am confused by your web address as sometimes I see it referred to as www.addisonsdisease.org.uk and sometimes as www.adshg.org.uk

The actual website addresss is www.adshg.org.uk but we have also registered www.addisonsdisease.org.uk which point to our website, as this is more meaningful to people. One disadvantage of the www.addisonsdisease.org.uk address is it employs 'URL gripping', meaning the name always appears in the address bar of your browser. This means you cannot  bookmark individual pages within our site or manually type in addresses. If this causes you a problem simply use the www.adshg.org.uk address.

Sometimes I have difficulty printing the information out which is displayed on my screen. What can I do to fix this?

Try changing your printers page orientation from "Portrait" to "Landscape" this helps to capture onto a printed page.

What is a PDF file and why do I need to download special software to view it?

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a universal file format that captures all the elements of a document. To view PDF files, you need to have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader installed in your computer. You can download the latest Acrobat® Reader for free from Adobe's website. Once you have downloaded the Reader, it will start automatically whenever you want to look at a PDF file.