Perhaps most important, the presentation is made with the ordinary person in mind, aiming to give him an understanding of important issues, while at the same time informing her/him of new developments, a critique of sorts, and, where we need to move forward.
The site has over 250 articles, reflecting on some developments on the global scene in the recent past, along with articles on Uganda, presenting our progress, with some background on Uganda provided under the link http://phantomsolutions.blogspot.com/ under the www.bsprimer.com
MAKING YOUR NAVIGATION OF THE SITE COMFORTABLE
SCREENSHOT ILLUSTRATING HOMEPAGE
The first title bar consisting of:
- Home
- About
- Contacts
- Gallery
The Home button brings you back to the homepage (first page you see when you go to the Energynewz website), the about button tells you about the Website, what it is about. The Contacts button gives you information about us or contacting us (EnergyNewz).
The Gallery button has all the images of all the articles for independent viewing; however one can go directly to the article in which the image is embedded.
The second title bar consisting of:
- Battery
- Bio
- Efficiency
- Geothermal
- Hydro
- Power saving
- Solar
- Wind
These are categories in which the different articles fall. Every article has a specific category in which it falls.
The Homepage has the latest article that was published. In this case ‘Energy Efficiency – Origins of Prominence’ was last published on Friday 13th September 2013 as indicated on the screenshot above.
Navigating the site:
- To find a specific article one can type the title or the content in the search space top right of the first title bar, as indicated on the screenshot.
- If you are on a page and feel lost but would like to go back to the homepage, you look up at the first task bar and click Home.
- Finding out what page/ category/ article, you are on is easy to do. You look at the top of the article.
(See screenshot below for illustration)
The article title status will have:
Home >> Category >> Title of the article
A SCREENSHOT ILLUSTRATING AN OPEN ARTICLE
In the illustration above, the main display is an open article;
Feed-in-Tariff Scheme to Boost Small Uganda’s Hydro Development
This is the title of the article as is illustrated above. The article has been selected for purposes of demonstrating an open article and how to navigate away, and, how to find out which page the navigator/ browser/ individual is on.
The area in the blue rectangle in the illustration shows the recent articles. This means the articles that were last posted. Once you click on any of the titles of the articles, it opens it into full view, a view that allows an individual to read it, like the article inset.
Next to the recent articles are the popular articles, these are the articles that have the most comments. They have been viewed by many people and have comments which show people’s opinions on the subject.
A SCREENSHOT ILLUSTRATING THE LATEST ARTICLE IN ALL THE CATEGORIES IN A SLIDE
BAR ON THE HOMEPAGE
The slide bar above shows the latest articles for each category. In the illustration, it shows categories;
- Latest in Battery (first)
- Latest in Bio (second)
- Latest in geothermal (third)
NB. This slide bar has other categories as you click the arrows (left and right).
The Window – slide bar helps you to scroll/ move/ navigate downwards towards the end of the site.
As illustrated in the screenshot, the window slide bar is almost half way, which indicates the web page was moved half way downwards.
SCREENSHOT ILLUSTRATING HOW TO INSERT A COMMENT
The Comment in the illustration shows where to click to write your comment on an article preferred.
When you click the comment you are provided with a fill in form for your details and the comment.
Here as illustrated below, you have to type in your:
- name
- email address
- website. (optional)
- comment, and, click the submit button at the end
SCREENSHOT ILLUSTRATING THE PAGE PROVIDED FOR YOU TO INSERT A COMMENT
Tags are keywords or can be one keyword that is frequently used in the article and are a source of identification with other articles that have the same keyword(s).
- They are arranged in ascending order, from A to Z and have different sizes symbolizing how many articles it is appearing in.
- The mouse, once over a tag, displays the number of articles that it appears in. If you click on a particular tag, it displays a list of the articles in which the tag appears.
A collective of archives is located at the bottom of the page on the right. These have all the articles according to the date they were posted. It is possible to click the arrow to see which month you would like to go to and find out the different articles in it.
Alternatively, if an article was referred to in another article or it was sited to have been written by date, you can locate it using the archives at the bottom of the page.
In our case we started in November 2012 to date, which means they run from November 2012 to date.
At the bottom we have links that take you to our social pages, this is indicated as follow us.
Advertisements as illustrated in the screenshot above, these are available spaces to which subscription can be made for your advertisement. This can be done by contacting us.
SCREENSHOT ILLUSTRATING TAGS, ARCHIVES AND FOLLOW US
Form any queries about how to navigate the site, you can:
- Email directly to paulsagala3@gmail.com
You will then be contacted with help as soon as will be practicable.
Please enjoy as you search for more information and news on www.energynewz.net
Written and Compiled by
Iga D. Ronnie
IT Support and O&M – Energy Newz
