Welcome to the AustLII Interactive Tutorial. This is the first version of an on-line tutorial designed to help you get the most out of using AustLII as a tool for legal research. Comments and suggestions are welcome - please e-mail the author, Daniel Austin at dan at austlii.edu.au.
The tutorial comes in three flavours. The content is the same -- what is different is the way it is arranged. You should pick the flavour best suited to you and your browser.
FRAMED (1): Your screen will be divided into three frames (a lesson plan, the lesson and a practice pad). Your browser must support a feature called "frames" (eg Netscape Navigator version 2.0 and up, or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0 and up). You should also have a reasonably high resolution monitor (ie be able to fit a lot onto the screen!).
FRAMED (2): Your screen will be divided into two frames (the lesson and a practice pad). Your browser must support a feature called "frames". This is for lower-resolution monitors (such as older "VGA" monitors).
FRAMED (3): Your screen is divided into two frames as above, but vertically instead of horizontally. Good for high resolution monitors that don't like FRAMED (1).
NO FRAMES: For users using browsers without frames support (such as Lynx or WebExplorer). You will have to jump back and forth between the tutorial and AustLII's pages, or perhaps print out the tutorial.
So pick the version that most suits you above and proceed to the lessons. For all of the "Framed" lessons, it is reccommended that you maximise your browser window (covered in the introduction if you don't know how to do this).
(NOTE: If you're using Netscape or a browser that supports forms, I don't reccommend you trying to use the NO FRAMES option. This is because links will create new windows on your desktop when you click on them, which can be annoying.)