Help

  1. Getting Started
    1. The Navigation Bar
    2. The TOC Frame
    3. The Main Frame
  2. Beyond Basics
    1. Referential Links
    2. Acronyms
  3. Troubleshooting
    1. Quicktime Conflicts
    2. Contacts

Getting Started

If your browser is frames-enabled, you should see three frames - one across the top and two below. The top frame is called the Navigation bar. The frame below and to the left is called the TOC frame. The third frame to the right is called the Main frame.

The Navigation Bar

The Navigation bar allows the user to access additional document information. When the user selects a link located in the Navigation bar, for example Acronyms, a new browser window will open with the desired information.

Link By Clicking:
References - Presents the Reference list within a new browser window (See Referential Links below).
Acronyms - Presents the Acronym list within a new browser window (See Acronyms below).
Glossary - Presents other supporting information (which may include a list of symbols or a glossary) within a new browser window.
Find - Presents instructions how to use the find function of your browser within a new browser window. Plans include creating a document-specific search tool to be made available to the user by clicking this link.
Help - Presents the information you are reading now in a new browser window.
YMP Technical Documents - Presents the Yucca Mountain Project technical documents web page within a new browser window.

For example, click on Acronyms in the Navigation bar. Notice a new browser window opens to display a list of acronyms for this document. You may move the new browser window aside or minimize it to be accessed when necessary. Close the Acronyms window.

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The TOC Frame

This frame contains indexes, references, and other supporting information. It's contents remain constant so the user can select different document sections from a central location online. When the user selects any link within the TOC frame, the information will appear in the frame to the right.

For example, if the user selects Section 2.3 within the TOC frame, Section 2.3 will appear at the uppermost top of the Main frame. When the user selects a different section from the TOC frame, the contents of the Main frame "slide" either up or down to present the requested information.

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The Main Frame

This frame contains the actual text of the document you are reviewing. From within the text of a document, you can see additional links to other sections, figures, or tables. Some documents also provide links to acronyms, definitions, and references. When a user selects these links, a new browser window will open to provide the requested information.

Some of the early documents posted to the Internet may cause the requested information to appear in the TOC frame. To view the entire table, figure, or section, click and hold the frame border and drag to the right. To return to the TOC frame, click your browser's "Back" button and resize the frame border to view the Main frame at its normal size.

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Beyond Basics

Now that you understand how each of the three frames interact to display information, let's look at some other features of Yucca Mountain Project Internet documents.

Web Publishing Management is in its third stage of an ongoing plan to providing the public with YMP technical documents.

The first stage presented documents using the Web Based Information System (WBIS) that stored the information within databases and created HTML documents "on the fly." Within this medium, all acronyms, glossary terms, references, and other supporting information were linked and accessible to the user. WBIS-specific help files were also included.

The second stage introduced the HTML-only document. Here the document is entirely HTML based, but included a WBIS environment "look and feel." Many of the WBIS features are included in these documents.

The third stage continues the HTML-only document environment, but reduces the number of links within a document, making it less-obtrusive from a viewing standpoint while maintaining its user-friendly features, such as easy access to acronym lists, glossary terms, figure and table viewing, and references.

The following information explains these features for HTML-only documents.

Referential Links

As stated earlier, some documents provide reference links within the document. Consequently, there are two ways to view a reference:

  1. To view a reference that is cited within the document, click on a reference link; the corresponding citation is displayed in a new browser window.

    OR

  2. Select References in the Navigation bar and find the reference either by manually scrolling down the list or by using the Search or Find tool in the menu bar of your browser.

In either case, a browser window will provide detailed information about that reference. Some documents provide additional referential information, including a link to the Records Information System official images of that document. By clicking on a link within either the Reference list or the individual reference browser window, a list of images will appear. By clicking on the desired page, the browser window will display an electronic image of the official document page as archived in the Records Information System (RIS).

If you have problems viewing such RIS images, see Troubleshooting below.

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Acronyms

As stated earlier, some documents provide acronym links within the document. Consequently, there are two ways to view an acronym:

  1. To view an acronym that is cited within the document, click on a acronym link; the corresponding citation is displayed in a new browser window.

    OR

  2. Select Acronyms in the Navigation bar and find the acronym either by manually scrolling down the list or by using the Search or Find (Control+F for Windows; Alt+F for MacOS) tool in the menu bar of your browser.

For example, click on the Acronym button in the Navigation bar above. A list of acronyms should appear in another browser window.

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Troubleshooting

QuicktimeTM Conflicts

Some users may not receive the requested document image, rather a "broken" QuicktimeTM icon in the center of the browser window. QuicktimeTM does not support the industry-standard FAX TIFF format used for document archival purposes. To view these images:

  1. Click on the browser's "Back" button (This will display the previously-accessed list of page images).

  2. Save the link to your hard disk (Windows - right-click the link and select "Save Target As..."; MacOS - click the link and hold until a pop-up menu appears and select "Save Link As..."). The file will contain a ".tiff" extension. We recommend you change the extension to ".tif".

  3. Open the saved image in a graphic application.

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Contacts

If you have further questions, please contact one of the following people:

Bonna Savarise | Valerie Kelly

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