Using this guide
This guide is a mobile web application and can be used like any other web application. It does have some special features though, some of which may not be obvious.
- If you bookmark the guide you can access it even when you're offline inside a building or outside 3G or WiFi range.
- Whenever you see a grid icon with a number, if you hit the
Show
menu at the top left of the screen and type the number into the keypad you will be taken to information about the item associated with that number. - You can tap most image to get a larger view, which you can pan by touching and moving, and scale by pinch zoom (where available).
- Some items are part of tours. You'll see a small grey bar on the side of the screen. When this is present swiping the screen moves back and forward.
- The menu bar below contains all the common menus
From left to right these are:
- Show. Touching this menu pulls up the keypad. If you hit the number of an exhibit you will be taken to its page in the guide. Try 106 for example, to see the page for Rice.
- Home. Always takes you to the home page of the guide.
- Shop. If the cart is red takes you to items particularly appropriate for the current page (see the Kibble Palace entry for an example). Otherwise brings up the shop.
- Tour. Some pages are part of a larger tour. If the page you are on is part of a tour then touching this menu item will take you to the tour home page. See the Botanics trail for an example tour.
- Map. Some items, which have a physical location, can be viewed on a map. A guide can have several maps, but each map item occurs on only one map. If you touch the map button the item's map will be shown, with the item in solid blue. Other items will be semi-transparent. If you go to the map directly (i.e. here all items are visible. Information items which pop up information when you touch them are red. The blue items take you to the associated page when you touch them.
There is some information about the technology here.