Help

This site, www.virtualobservatory.org, is a gateway to all the education and public outreach projects that use data supplied by the National Virtual Observatory (NVO). Each page on the site has the same structure of links around the top, left, and bottom. This page describes how to use these links to navigate around the site.

Top

The site is organized by the types of people that can benefit from education and outreach products enabled by the NVO - students, teachers, informal science educators, and amateur astronomers. Each type has a link in one of the tabs at the top of the page - the tabs look like this:

Click on the tab that describes you best. The color of the tab you clicked on will turn from light blue to gold, and you will go to a new page. The new page has links to all the NVO education and public outreach "partner projects" - all the projects that use NVO to supply them with data. Each link will open in a new window. If you click on a link while the new window is already open, that link will open in the same window as the first link.

Left

The menu at the left side of every page provides background information on the NVO and on this site. The menu looks like this:

Click on one of the underlined links to go to that page. These information pages are all under the Home tab of the site, so you will see the Home tab in gold for all of them. Here is an explanation of each link:

What is NVO? gives you an explanation of what the NVO is, the scientific problems it was created to solve, and how it solves them.

FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) provides some answers to questions about the NVO that many people ask.

Toolkit gives information for education and outreach developers who want to link their projects with the data access that the NVO provides.

Partners describes and links to the NVO's education and public outreach partner projects, which use NVO-supplied data in their products, workshops, and other work.

Help is this page, explaining how to use the virtualobservatory.org site

Bottom

Finally, there is a set of links at the bottom of each page that looks like this:

Search will take you to a page that lets you search this site or the WWW, using the Google search engine.

Contact Us will take you to a page with contact information for the developers of this site.

Feedback will send E-mail to this site's webmaster.