Help

• General Help
• Help with Table of Contents
• Help with Article Pages
• Searching For Articles
• Need More Information
• Help with Copyright and Printing Articles
• Linking to the Proceedings

The proceedings can be used on two basic ways.

• Like a Book: Just as there is in most books, the CD version of the proceedings has a Table of Contents which lists all the articles available in the proceedings. Each article can be read by clicking on its reference in the Table of Contents. This will load the article in your browser to then be read. Each Article can be printed if you so desire by simply selecting File and Print from your browser's menu after it is displayed. Keep in mind that each of the authors have retained the copyright to their articles, so you can print a copy for your own use, but you can not distributed it to others.

• Like a Database: The proceedings can be used like a searchable database of articles. The online proceedings has a search engine which can be used to search the articles based on key words, and display a list of articles that meets your search criteria.

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  Help with Table of Contents

  The Table of Contents consists of a header and a series of links to articles. Each of these is explained below:

  

  Navigation Buttons

  This part of the Table of Contents provides hot links to the Help Page (this help page), the Search Page, and a link back to the Online Planners Forum. Just simply move the mouse over the button you wish to use and left click the mouse. If your Browser supports JavaScript, as you move your mouse over the button, it lights up. Cool! If it does not light up, you can still click to go to the page referenced, you just miss out on the cool buttons. To bad!

  Table of Contents Topic Bar

  The Table of Contents list the articles by Topic. Each of these blue bars list a different topic. Pretty simple huh.

  Article References

  Each of the articles has a hotlink reference to the article page. Each line included the article title and the author(s).

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  Help with Article Pages

  Each Article consists of an article header and an article body. Each of these are explained in detail below.

  Article Header

  

  Article Title and Author Name

  This section of the article header includes the title of the article and the name of the author(s). If the article is being reprinted with permission, a hot link to the reprint permission notice is included with article title is is noted with a "*".

  © & Author Information

  This is a hot link to information about the author(s). At a minimum this includes their title and their company or organization. This also sometimes included a way to contact the author, more information about the organization, or a way to obtain article reprints.

  Navigation Buttons

  This part of the article header provides hot links to the Table of Contents, this help page, the Search Page, and a link back to the Online Planners Forum. Just simply move the mouse over the button you wish to use and left click the mouse. If your Browser supports JavaScript, as you move your mouse over the button, it lights up. Cool!

  Body of Article

  The actual article will consist of three basic parts in this order, an Abstract, the Article, and Footnotes and References. The Heading structure of an article may vary, but most follow the following header hierarchy

  Header Level 1

  Header Level 2

  Header Level 3

  Topics
  A Quote

  Where provided by the author graphics and tables are included. In some articles, the resolution of the graphics needed to be so high to actually see the graphic, that the graphic was not included in the article body. In such cases, a smaller graphic icon is included, which you can click on to load the full size graphic.

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  Need More Information

  You can contact the editor by email at

  rquay@ci.phoenix.az.us

  or US mail at

  Ray Quay
  Planning Dept.
  200 W. Washington
  Phoenix AZ 85004

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  Searching For Articles

  The search page allows you to search for articles based on keywords. You can select a keyword to search on and then click on the SEARCH button to display the results. The result are listed in the are underneath the keywords. The articles are listed as hot links that you can click on to view the article. After you have viewed the article, click on the back button to reload the list.

  Advanced Users

  If you would like, you can view the articles in a separate window. This makes it easier to go back and forth between the articles and the search list. This can be done by clicking on the check box marked "Use separate window to display articles". All subsequent searches will list the article's hotlink so it loads in a separate window when selected.

  Search Questions

  Sometimes after a look at an article, clicking on the back button does not reload the search list. What is wrong?

  Most likely you have the "separate window" checked (see above). When this is checked, articles appear in a separate window, either make sure this is unchecked, or look on your desktop for the window containing the search list.

  I get a message that my browser does not support javascript. What do I do to use the search engine?

  This is happening for one of two reasons.
  First, if you are not using at least version 2 of Netscape , Opera, or Internet Explorer your browser does not support Javascript. You can upgrade your PC or Mac browser by installing one of the browsers on the CD.
  Second you may have Javascript turned off. Here is how to turn it on.

  • Netscape: Version 2 and 3 Select OPTIONS/NETWORK/LANGUAGES and make sure JAVASCRIPT is checked. Version 4 Select EDIT/PREFERENCES/ADVANCED and make sure Enable JavaScript is checked.
  • Explorer: Good Question. In Explorer Version 4 as far as we know, you can not turn Javascript off. In earlier versions this was available, but since we do not have an earlier version to test, you will have to hunt for this. It will most likely be under VIEW/INTERNET OPTIONS.

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  Help with Copyright and Printing Articles

  What is the copyright on the Proceedings?

  Each author has retained the copyright to their articles. Each author has granted APA and ASU the right to publish their article in these online proceedings. The form, design, and structure of the proceedings has been copyrighted by AICP/APA.

  Can I print out articles?

  Each author has retained the copyright to their articles. Under this copyright you can print out an article, or save a copy of an article on disk, for your own personal use or convenience. However you can not print out or save an electronic copy of an article for distribution with out the author's consent. For example you can NOT print out a copy for distribution in the office or to a class. If you choose to utilize portions of a document in another document, please utilize proper citation of the original author and copyright.

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  Linking to the Proceedings

  Are the Proceedings available online?

  Yes. The 1997, 1998, and 1999 proceddings are online. You can access them at http:www.asu.edu/caed/onlineplanner/proceedings. Some new articles and article corrections are available online that are not on this CD version.

  Can I create a link on my page directly to one of the articles?

  You can inlcude a link on your web page to an article as long as the article is NOT displayed within a frame from your site. Framing any page of the Proceedings is a violation of AICP's ASU's and the author's copyright. It would be nice if you would provide some credit to the author for writing and providing the article and ASU for providing the article in electronic form.

  Can I create a link on my page to the proceedings?

  YES!!! You can inlcude a link on your web page to the proceedings as long as the link is NOT displayed within a frame from your site. Framing any page of the Proceedings is a violation of AICP's, ASU's and the author's copyright.

  < A HREF="http://www.asu.edu/caed/proceedings98">
  1997 National Planning Conference Proceedings
  

  Which should appear as follows:

  1999 National Planning Conference Proceedings

  Or if you choose you can utilize a reference using the site logo as follows:

  < TABLE WIDTH=450 COLS=2>
  < TD WIDTH=25%>
  < IMG SRC="http://www.asu.edu/caed/proceedings98/IMAGES/LOGO99.GIF"
  ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=90 HEIGHT=91
  ALT="1999 National Planning Conference Proceedings">
  < TD WIDTH=75%>
  < A HREF="http://www.asu.edu/caed/proceedings99">
  1999 National Planning Conference Proceedings </A>
  </TABLE>
  

  Which should appear as follows:

  1999 National Planning Conference Proceedings

  This graphic is a small 3k gif file so should load fast and add very little overhead to your site (about 1 seconds load time over a 28K modem line or 2 sencond over a 14K line). If you like, you have our permission to make a copy the logo on your server for purposes of creating a link to the proceedings. You can do this by clicking on this graphic reference and saving the image or page as logo99.gif in the same directory as the web page with the link reference. You can then use the following HTML

  < IMG SRC="logo99.gif"
  ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=90 HEIGHT=91
  ALT="1999 National Planning Conference Proceedings">
  

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  For more help contact the editors at
  (bill.kasson@asu.edu)
  (rquay@ci.phoenix.az.us)