Find Your Way Around the Eugene Web Site

Eugene's Web site provides several methods for finding information and, once you've arrived at a destination, knowing your location within the site.

Find Information

• City Quick Links – On the City Home page, the Quick Links list offers quick access to pages:
  
  City Quick Links display on most pages. Some pages in the site display their own Quick Links. View example

  

• How do I? – The How Do I? section on the Home page offers links to pages that answer the most-asked questions from visitors to the site:
  

• Site Map – The Site Map displays links to pages in a list that shows how the pages are placed within the organizational structure of the site. A link to the Site Map appears at the top of every page:
  
  
  In this example below from the Site Map page, links show how a Parks and Maps page is organized under a main Parks and Open Space page. The Parks and Maps page offers links to regions of Eugene (for example, the Bethel / Danebo area as seen in the picture below). The Bethel / Danebo page includes links to specific parks (for example, Bethel Community and Candlelight parks).
  
  
  When the Site Map first displays, the program expands the list of page links down one level:
  
  
  Click a plus sign . . .
  
  
  . . . to expand to the next lower level:
  
   

• Search – A basic Site Search feature found at the top of the site's pages allows you to search the entire City of Eugene Web site. The Site Search displays, in almost all searches, links to pages (rather than links to documents such as PDF or Microsoft Word documents) at the top of the returned results list.

Read more about Site Search in these topics:

• How Do I Search?

• How Does Search Work?

• What Should I Type to Search with Text?

• What Can I Do with the Search Results?

• More Searches – Add Search Criteria, Use Links to Other Eugene Searches

Navigation and Organization

• Many pages display organizing and navigation elements at the top of the page. Those elements include:

• The name of the page (Planning and Development in the picture below)

• The hierarchy of pages within the site structure. In the picture, the Planning and Development page is one level below the City Home page.

• Entries on the You are here line are links. Click a link on the line to display that page.
  

• Some levels have one or more additional lower levels. In the picture below, six "Sub Levels" occur beneath the main Planning and Development level: Building Permit Services, Planning, Community Development, and three more. The symbol indicates a sub level.
  

• Sub levels relate to at least their own page, and often relate directly to additional pages (and sometimes further sub levels).

• When you point to a sub level, a menu displays with related pages and perhaps additional sub levels. Click the Planning line in the picture below to see this effect, and more explanation. Then click the Planning line again to continue.

• The picture below displays a broader view of the Planning and Development page. It shows four levels:
   The highest, City Home level
   The second, Planning and Development level
   The sub levels below Planning and Development. One of those six sub levels is Planning.
   The sub levels beneath Planning
  
  
   

• After you point to Planning, and then point to Historic Preservation (which is a sub level below Planning), another menu displays that lists the pages that relate to the Historic Preservation sub level. In this example, when the pointer clicks Historic Review Board, the Historic Review Board page displays:
  

• The Planning page lists both the links to the pages related to Planning (under Navigation - Current Level), and its own sub levels (under Navigation - Sub Levels). Note how the You are here line shows the top three levels:
  
   

• The top of every page contains links to pages where you can find more information and links. Click one of those links at the top, or click a link on the menus that display:
  

• The Residents page includes a search of the Community Information Guide. See Search – Community Information Guide on Residents page.

• The Services page includes a list of links you can search to find City services. See Search – City Services.