While developing this website, we have considered the importance of having certain features, which will contribute a better user experience. By putting up this page, we hope you will get familiar with these features and use them to maximize your learning.
Text-only mode
We understand that not everyone has the luxury of a fast internet connection. The loading time of the website can be significantly reduced by the use of the text-only mode. As the name implies, the text-only mode strips the site off all its graphics and hence, considerably reducing the website loading time.
You can switch to the text-only mode by clicking on 'Turn-off Images' in the Tools panel. By clicking the 'Turn-on Images', you can revert back to the normal version.
Podcast
Some of the pages on this website are available for podcast. The Pocast icon that you see on your right will appear on the pages with podcast option. Podcasting provides you with great mobility in learning. You can burn these mp3 files onto a CD and listen as and when you like, while on the move.
Find
Sometimes, you know what you are looking for, but just can find it. Using Find, you can easily spot what you are looking for. We have tried our best to provide you with relevant search results for your queries.
Download
If you cannot stay online all the time to access this website, you may want to consider downloading the website to your computer and browse the site without having the need to remain connected to the Internet.
Text-size adjustment
While creating this website, we have given consideration to people with viewing difficulties. If you face viewing difficulties, please visit use the text size changer on the top-right-hand corner, to increase the text size. Your changes will be automatically saved, so that the next time you visit the website, your settings will be retained.
Skin
With the “Skin” facility you can choose to see the website in red, blue or green “skin”. This is an attempt by us to make this website more customizable to an individual’s taste. We hope that such a feature would make your reading more enjoyable.
Using CSS, or Cascading Style Sheet, we have tried to make this site printer friendly. Redundant images and graphical elements are omitted, when you print a page from this site.
Content Jumps
Content Jumps help you digest text-heavy pages by splitting up the content found on a particular page into smaller chunks and hence giving you the option to choose what you want to read.
Related links
These are a bunch of links to other pages, which are related to the one you are currently viewing. These links facilitate easier navigability of the website and also help to make the website more coherent.
Spotlight
Spotlight offers you random interesting tidbits of information, which captured our attention, during the course of development of this website. We hope these facts help to make this website more interesting.
By clicking on 'Open external link', you can see the external website, from which we took that particular piece of information from.
Think Tank
Think Tank asks you randomly chosen questions related to cybercrime. Upon answering the question, you will be immediately told whether your answer was correct or wrong. If you were to provide the wrong answer, the correct answer will be displayed.
Glossary
This is a collection of terms that are related to the world of cybercrime, which you may find it useful to know.
Bookmark
With clicking on the Bookmark utility (found in the Tools panel), you can bookmark a particular page of the site, so that you can come back and have a look at it later if you wish to. Unfortunately, this utility works only if you are using Microsoft Explorer as your Internet browser.
If you are using Netscape or Firefox, you can bookmark a particular page manually by pressing Ctrl+D.
Tell a friend
If you find this website useful and wish to recommend this to a friend, you can do so by simply clicking on 'Tell a friend', found in the Tools panel. A new email message would be automatically created in your default email client, from which you can send out your recommendation.