This section explains how to view all the content that is published on Webstore for Education without needing to log on. In internet jargon, you are an anonymous browser.
First time users who have a password and want more help should go to the Features overview.
This is the main home page at http://www.webstore-ed.net/.
Clicking on the dark green Webstore logo at any time will always return you to this home page.
Clicking on the central logo or the browse option takes you to the browse (Public) view.
Each organisation is shown as
within
categories
shown as blue folders 
.
Click on categories or organisation
icons to view the
contents.
To understand the advantages that this gives over traditional websites see Introduction to Webstore for Education
Clicking on an organisation brings up its Browse view.
Your selection is highlighted and you have the options displayed on the right-hand side.
In the example, clicking on 'View Home Page' will display the home web page(s) for you to read.
Webstore content is held in folders, like the yellow ones in Windows Explorer on your own computer.
clicking on
a folder opens it
to show more
sub-folders or
page groups inside.
Webstore content consists of two sorts of page groups:
show
web page groups.
Click on this and 'view page' to view the web page or web pages. Click on the
back arrow on the top left of Internet Explorer to return to the
Webstore browse view.
shows a
page group which is
any other type of
file e.g. a Word document, or an Excel file. Click
on this and 'view page' to download the document onto your computer eg. a word
document will load into the Word application on your computer. Click on File /
Save As to save the file onto your computer. Click on the back arrow on the top
left of Internet Explorer to return to the Webstore browse view. Alternatively
right click on 'View Page', choose 'Save Target As...' and you can save the
file anywhere you choose on your computer.
The green circle on the page group shows the page group has been published. Only published content is seen by anonymous browsers.
There are also two kinds of special page groups.
at the top of
the page is the
organisation's
home page (or pages) if they have one.
Some folders also have a single
inside. This is a web
page which has been assigned as an
index page. This always
comes first in a folder, and as well as the folder name, can give useful
information about the other page groups in the folder.
Information about any page group you are viewing can be obtained by clicking on the 'properties' button on the reduced navigation bar at the top:
