Website Help
Navigation/Organization of Website
Persistent
navigation and logical organization makes it easy to navigate and find
the information you're looking for in our website. Let's take a
closer look:
1. You will always know what section of our website you're in by the
banner at the top of the page.
2. The primary menu (always present at the top of the page) divides
our website into six main categories: Business Development, Our
Government, Explore Our Community, Services and Departments, Reference
Desk, and Event Calendar.
3. The secondary menu will change depending on what section of the
website you're in.
4. Larger sections of our website (i.e., Services and Departments),
will have tertiary-level menus (and sometimes even quad-level menus).
Menus within sections are always present on the page. More
information on tertiary menus is below.
5. Search the website here. Or for advanced search
functionality, visit our Search page (also available by
clicking on Reference Desk, then Search.
6. Quick Links brings commonly viewed pages to your fingertips.
7. Events Calendar and Document Library are available on every page.
Links to comprehensive event information and document library are
available at the bottom of these events/documents.
More on Tertiary Menus
Larger sections of our website (i.e., Services and
Departments), will have tertiary-level menus. Along the top will
be links to information related to each section. For example, if
you click on FAQs in the above menu, you would be linked directly to the
Planning & Community Development FAQs. Same for Forms/Permits,
Links and Contact Information. Clicking on Locate Us will take you
to a City Map.
If you see 
in a tertiary menu, it means there is another
"section" of information, not just a single page of information.
For example, if you click on Zoning Division in the above menu, a "quad
menu" will appear with additional items.
If you see 
in a tertiary menu, it means that particular menu
item is available in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. Clicking on it
will open the .pdf document in a new browser window. See more
information on .pdf documents in
Printing/Downloading.
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),
indicated by this symbol:
If you are having problems viewing .pdf documents, please
download the free Acrobat Reader here.
To print a .pdf document, left click on the link, then click on the
printer icon, or 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.
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 is designed so that it can be viewed as easily at 800x600
resolution as 1024x768. No need to scroll left/right at the lower
resolution. If you have to scroll left/right to see the entire
page, your resolution is set too low. To adjust your resolution,
go to your computer desktop, right click, go to Properties, then select
the "Settings" tab.
Some services in our website open new browser windows on your
computer. 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.
We also offer an alphabetical listing of Services in our
Services Directory 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
Contact the City
of Farmington Hills webmaster by clicking here.
