Surfing the Lille City Hall web site

> Themes and sections
The "mairie-lille.fr" web site is organized into the following 10 themes: Discovering Lille, Lille City Hall, Community Life, Education, Local Democracy, Culture, Sports and Leisure, City Lifestyle, Urban Planning and Housing, Lille's Economy.
The content of all of these sections is listed in the Site Map, accessible in the Footnotes menu at the bottom of the screen.

> News and events
You can consult all the current news and events on the home page of "mairie-lille.fr". You can find specific news and events relative to specific themes on the introduction page of each theme.

> Search
At the top of the screen, you can access the site's internal search engine (via Search).

> City Hall District Offices
The various districts are listed along the top of the screen. Also, in the top right corner of the screen, a map of the districts in and around Lille allows you to go to the pages concerning the City Hall District Offices.

> Languages
By clicking on the flag icon in the top right corner of the screen, you can access the English version of the site.

> More information
In the column on the right side of the screen, you can find direct access to:
- Mini-portals dedicated to specific themes;
- Practical Information;
- Images of Lille;
- Useful Links and more.

Displaying and printing web pages

> Display
Display settings correspond to the number of pixels shown horizontally and vertically on your screen. The "mairie-lille.fr" site is optimized for a display set to 1024 x 768 pixels.

You can configure your computer (PC + Windows) to set the screen as follows: Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display > Settings.

> Printing pages
The Print icon in the top left corner of the screen displays the page in a printable format and opens the Print window directly, all you have to do is click on the print confirmation button.

> Web browsers and tools
Your web browser is the software which allows you to visit and display web pages. The latest generation of web browsers (version 4 and later) ultirieures) offer optimal web surfing capabilities.
- download Internet Explorer free of charge
- download Mozilla Firefox free of charge
- download Acrobat Reader free of charge, to read documents in the PDF format
- download Flash Reader free of charge, to view Flash animation

Accessibility

> Basic organisation of information on the site
The City of Lille web site is organised in the following way:

    * Banners at the top and bottom of the page propose services to help you surf on the site (Help, Choice of Language, Access to District pages...)

    * The thematic horizontal menu enables you to access the main sections of the site

    * On pages within the site, a menu is displayed on the left of the screen, containing links to all other parts of the section currently available

    * The content of the page is displayed in the central zone of the page

    * Footnotes at the bottom of the page allow access to further services (Site Map) and information about the site (Legal Notices)


> Technological advances
The City of Lille web site has been conceived to respect the latest standards in terms of HTML, style sheets, javascript, etc. We pay particular attention to the high level of quality of this site. However, due to the dynamic nature of the site and its content, it may arise that some elements are non-accessible, or temporarily shut-down and/or faulty.

Should you come across such a case, please contact the webmaster to indicate the problem. We will do our absolute best to remedy the situation as soon as possible.