Help
Navigation/Organization of Website
Printing/Downloading
Technical Stuff
Searching the Website
Accessibility
Contacting the Webmaster
 Navigation/Organization
of Website
Persistent navigation and logical organization makes navigating
our website easy. Click on a number on the
graphic below to learn more.
Printing/Downloading
When we think our visitors would want to print the information we
are presenting in our website, we make it available in Adobe format
(.pdf).
To print the .pdf document, left click on the link, then click on
the printer icon. Or you can left click, then click on
File/Print.
To print information on a page in our website where a .pdf is not
available (just a regular page), highlight what you want printed,
click on File/Print, then select "Selection" under Print Range.
This way all the graphics (buttons along the top and left side) will
not print.
To download a .pdf file to your computer's hard drive, left click
on the link, then click on the save icon (looks like a disk).
Enter the filename and click Save. You can also right click,
then "Save Target As" (Internet Explorer) or "Save Link As"
(Netscape). Enter the filename and click Save.
(Note that the above outlined options may not be
available on older browsers.)
Technical Stuff
We've optimized our imagery as much as possible without affecting
the quality of the graphics. This minimizes slow download
times. In addition, graphics are also sliced optimally to
minimize slow download times.
Our website was designed so that it can be viewed as easily at
640x480 resolution as 1024x768. No need to scroll
left/right at the lower resolution.
Some services in our website open new browser windows on your
computer. For example, print-friendly versions of your tax
bill can be displayed. Unfortunately, this technology is
similar to the approach used for those annoying pop-up and pop-under
advertisements. If you have pop-up blocker software on your
computer, this content may not be displayed. To work around
this problem, simply suspend the operation on the pop-up blocker
software, open the page, then re-engage your pop-up blocker
software.
Technical difficulties can be reported here.
Searching the
Website
If you cannot find what you are looking for, use our advanced
search feature. Detailed help on Searching is available on the
Search Page.
Accessibility
We thought is was important to make our website accessible.
Websites are accessible if they can be used as effectively by people
with disabilities as by those without. A sighted visitor will
not even notice, though. The steps taken to make a website
accessible are "behind the scenes."
Contacting
the Webmaster
You
can contact the City of Northville Webmaster by clicking here.
Navigation/Organization
of Website...the Details
Click on any number on the image below to learn more about our
website.
One...Primary Navigation
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Our website is divided into five major sections:
Government, Economic Development, Community, Services and Reference
Desk. These five buttons appear at the top of every page on
our website.
Two...Commonly Used Buttons
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We also placed commonly used buttons at the top of every page:
City Directory, Calendar, Site Map, Search and Visit Downtown.
You can identify what section of the website you're in by looking
at the banner here.
Four...Of Special Interest Box
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The overview page of each section has an "Of Special Interest"
box pointing you to pages of interest in that section.
 Five...Secondary Navigation (back to image)
The buttons down the left side of your screen change depending on
what major section of the website you're in. In addition, in
some content-rich sections of our website (especially the Services
section), a third menu may appear at the top of the content area
(see A). Again, persistent navigation is important and our
menus remain at the top, left side, and in some cases, at the top of
the content area for every page in that section. (B) and (C)
appear in the menu if there are Forms, FAQs or Contact Information
available for the current section that you're visiting.
Six...There's No Place Like Home
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The home button is located at the bottom of the secondary menu.
The signature area is at the bottom of every page in the website.
It provides textual links to the major sections and commonly used
buttons. Also in the signature are links to a Website Feedback
Form, a link to the Northville Webmaster, and a link to the
Technical Contact for our website.
The signature also identifies that our website is Bobby
compatible. This means it is accessible. Websites are
accessible if they can be used as effectively by people with
disabilities as by those without.
This page last updated:
July 24, 2008
©2008, City of Northville
City of Northville
215 W. Main St.
Northville, Michigan 48167
248-349-1300
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
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