Navigating This Site

Site Navigation Pages - Site Design Precepts - Site Ownership

The Site Navigation Pages

The CAA National site is a very large and complex site. The following series of pages is designed to help you navigate this site and to optimize your experience here:

Viewing This Site has hints about how to best view the site. If the fonts seem too large or too small, the solution is found here.
The Site Map is a very general overview of the site layout.
The Site Index is a keyword index to content on this site. It will also give you an idea of what is available here.
You can Search This Site using the search tool found on this page.

Site Design Precepts

This site is maintained by . Several features and precepts are involved in the design decisions made for this site.

The Menu System

The menu system on the left was designed to make the listing more compact, yet to retain the accessibility of the entire site. To accomplish this, some menus were compacted into sub-categories:

CAA National
Writing Information
CAA Literary Awards
Writing Links

Expandable menus are indicated by » after the menu name.

External Links Open New Windows

Links pointing to an address external to this site will open a separate window using Javascript. These are not pop-up windows. Simply close the new window to return to this site.

Accessibility

Support For Older Browsers Deprecated

While these pages are created with the aim of being accessible to the greatest number of browsers possible, it has become necessary to abandon techniques favouring older browsers to accommodate newer devices that are now more widespread.

Customize Font Sizes & Colours

The font sizes on this site are relative, not fixed, making them more flexible. You can learn more about how to change fonts sizes to customize and improve your experience on this site.

Safe For Children

The content on this Website is labelled with ICRA to make it safer for children to visit.

Canadian Content

This site emphasizes the Canadian sites, particularly in the Writing Links section where you will find Canadian sites marked with the icon.

Site Ownership

This Web site is owned and funded by the Canadian Authors Association. Site content and policies are subject to the CAA's by-laws and to decisions by the CAA National Executive.

More information is available in the site's copyright, legal, and privacy guidelines.

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