Navigation

In this chapter we will look at the many ways in which you can search for and find the content and courses you're looking for on the Online Training Library. Let's begin with an overview of our navigation system, and in the subsequent movies in this chapter we will go into the specifics. Across the top of nearly every page on our site, you will find the navigation bar, which contains the primary menus you'll use to find training courses. You can browse our library based on subject, software name, author, and the new menu gives you quick access to our latest releases, documentary films, and there is even a link to a page that explains any new features we have added to our site. The navigation bar is also where you'll find the search field, which lets you search our site for a particular word or phrase. Now, again we will cover these navigation bar items individually in upcoming movies, but for now let's scroll down towards the bottom of the page where we will find the fat footer, and like the navigation bar, the fat footer appears on every page of our site. The fat footer contains links to non- course-related sections of our site, like news, information about our various products and subscription plans, and contact information. But this is also where you can browse our entire library's contents by these tabs, which you can see offer more granular subcategories organized by subject, software, and our most- viewed courses in each subject. You can even view a list containing every single course by clicking this link here, which currently tells me there are 967 courses in all in the Library. This list is sorted with the most recently released courses at the top of the list, so that you can easily resort the list by clicking any of these headers. So, for example, if I wanted to see all the courses listed alphabetically, I could click Course Title. But scrolling through a list of every single course is probably the least efficient way of finding what you're looking for. In the following movies, we will look at better ways to locate the information and movies you need. Let's return to the lynda.com homepage, which you can always do by clicking the logo in the navigation bar, and we will pick it up from here in the next movie.