Tips for Touring
the Art History Web Site at Bluffton College
The Art History Web Site is designed to let you browse easily and intuitively from period to period, medium to medium, style to style. If you are new to the web, however, you may welcome some tips for moving around.
First, the basics...
As is true anywhere on the world wide web, the basic way to move around is to use a mouse to click on "hot" links, which are usually underlined and look like this: Click here to try.
Sometimes a picture can act as a link too. But before you try clicking on a picture, you should know how to back up, so you don't get stuck. Why? At this web site, anyway, you will often see small images (sometimes called "thumbnails") which will expand into larger versions when you click them. Since your screen may then show only that larger picture, with no links, you will need to find the "back" button on your web browser. Usually it is in the upper left hand corner of the program window. On Netscape Navigator 4, it looks like this:
Okay, now try it by clinking on the image to the right, then finding your way back.
Extra navigation tools...
As soon as you start browsing this web site, you'll find some additional ways to move around. At the top corners of all the major pages, you'll see two buttons, like this:
You see the point ... er, pointers. At any time you can do what the left-hand arrow says and "Retrace the tour...." More often, you will use the right hand button to "Continue the tour..." and move to what we consider the next logical stop on your survey of art history. For example...
Want to visualize how all this works?...
- Click here for a large "map" that shows what has just been described. (Takes longer to load and requires scrolling to see it all, but offers better resolution.)
- Click here for a smaller "map" that shows what has just been described. (Takes less time to load and usually fits on the screen, but resolution is not so good))
A few more things...
- Wondering what to study for exams?
Look for this check mark to indicate an especially important image or concept: 
- We hope to add a glossary and index within a few months, but for now the following buttons offer nothing but empty promises. Sorry.
- You may return to the Art History home page and the table of contents there at any time by clinking on a link like the following one near the bottom of every major page:
Art History for Humanities
- Occasionally we offer links to sites with artwork elsewhere on the web. Explore!
Click here to suggest ways to improve this web site.
Click here to return to Art History home page.
Art History for Humanities:
Copyright © 1997 Bluffton College.
Text and image preparation by Mary Ann Sullivan.
Design by Gerald W. Schlabach.
All images marked MAS were photographed on location by Mary Ann Sullivan. All other images were scanned from other sources or downloaded from the World Wide Web; they are posted on this password-protected site for educational purposes, at Bluffton College only, under the "fair use" clause of U.S. copyright law.
Page maintained by Gerald W. Schlabach, gws@bluffton.edu. Last updated: 5 September 1997.
