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ExpeditionThe expedition is the key part of the presentation. Here you can find the report about what happened with our team beginning with the moment of the start of the expedition until the return home to Togliatti. Chronologically, the expedition is divided into 8 stages, each of which contains several (2...7) HTML-pages of text illustrated with photos: |
Each stage starts with an animated map on which you can see the route
of the expedition.
NavigationTo start, you can click the photo on the start page or the "next" button. Using the "next" button, you can look through the whole presentation including Reflections.You can easily descend to any stage of the expedition from the start page and then further on to any page. Using the navigational banner at the top of the page, you can ascend back "up" the presentation tree. AppendicesMost pages have Appendices. They may be members' diaries, maps of the route, documents, video clips and so on. Without exception, all the appendices are collected together and selected into groups, access to which is available from the start page. To make it easy to recognize different groups of Appendices, they are marked as different icons at the bottom of the page. Please, note, that icons for the audio and video clips consist of two parts which give you access to different file formats for Macintosh (QuickTime) and PC (AVI). |
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 Documents & Texts |
 Maps & Charts |
 Advice |
  Audioclip (Mac/Windows) |
  Videoclip (Mac/Windows) |
The Album and the Slide-show are organized in a special way.
AlbumThe Album contains 7 videoclips, 2 audioclips and about 130 photos (it is more than you can find on Expedition pages). The photos are separated into groups and have small thumbnails to make the choice easier. While pressing on the certain photo on the Expedition page, you can find yourself on the respective page of the Album with a larger photo.Slide-showThe Slide-show contains 27 photos, which are most interesting from an artistic point of view. You can get there from the start page of the Presentation, and you can look through it by pressing the "next" button.LanguageThe very capacious texts such as the Members' Diaries were not translated to English. You have to have a browser that supports Cyrillic (Windows-1251) encoding in order to view Russian text correctly. Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later or Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or later do have this feature. You also need to select Unicode fonts that support Cyrillic codepage (or simply Cyrillic fonts on the Mac side) in your browser's preferences. We use only one encoding for Russian - Windows-1251 - but this doesn't mean that we prefer Windows over Macintosh (most of the Presentation was prepared on Macintosh). You simply don't have to care about the encoding while using modern browsers such as mentioned above - they will switch to the appropriate encoding automatically. |
