Navigating Our Site


Georgies' website is best viewed in Internet Explorer 5.0 (or higher) or Netscape Navigator 4.8 (or higher). Some graphics used by our shopping cart may not appear properly in Mozilla Firefox. We're waiting on a solution to this problem from our shopping cart programmers.

For best ease of viewing, we recommend a screen resolution of 800x600. There are no required plugins for sound, video or multimedia files, but we do recommend installing Adobe Acrobat Reader. You'll need it to open, read, print and save technique sheets, brochures, price lists, and other documents on our site.

Links are Everywhere!

  • WORDS: Text links may be light yellow (on a dark red-clay background) or red-clay-brown (on a light tan background). Text links will always be underlined like this or like this. Text links you have visited will turn orange or khaki. (Don't worry, words in light yellow and orange are much more visible on the dark background where you'll find them.)
  • PICTURES: Keep an eye on your cursor as you mouse over pictures on our webpages. When the cursor changes, click! This will generally open a larger copy of the image you're looking at.
  • HINT: If you're unsure what will happen when you click a link, place your cursor on the link and sneak a peek at the lower left corner of your browser window. This line of text shows the name of the file or action connected to that link.
If it ends with... ...then it is a...
HTM Webpage: clicking brings up a new page of the site.
JPG Picture: clicking brings up a larger copy.
PDF Acrobat Document: clicking brings up an info sheet formatted for Adobe Acrobat Reader. Left-click to open or right click to save.
MENUs: We have built two menus into this version of our website, plus "shortcut" menus that float over some of our product pages. The main menu is on the left side, and leads you to various parts of our site. The horizontal menu at the top of the screen offers information about our company, who we are and what we do. When you visit our product and shopping pages, you will also find floating "shortcut" menus, designed for your convenience to save scrolling up and down lengthy pages. The floating menus will follow your cursor actions. You can also move them around the screen by clicking on the various directional arrows.

BACK BUTTON: Your browser's 'Back' button is (usually) an arrow pointing to the left, on the row of icons just below the menu. Use this button to return to the page you viewed just before this one.

SEARCH ENGINE: We've provided a search engine you can use at any time to quickly, easily locate products or information anywhere on our website. You can also use this search engine to search the rest of the Web without leaving Georgies site. To use the search feature, first specify 'This Site' or 'The Web' by using the pull-down menu. Type in the product, search words or phrase you're looking for and click 'Search.' (Our search engine will remember your previous searches, and suggest a list of words or phrases for which you've previously searched. You can save yourself typing the whole phrase by scrolling down the list and clicking on "used" phrases.) Results for your search will be displayed in the main window. Here are some basic tips on the logic of search engines:

raku glaze
The search engine will display any pages that contain EITHER the word "raku" OR the word "glaze" OR both.
raku +glaze
The search engine will display any pages that contain BOTH the words "raku" and "glaze."
raku -glaze
The search engine will display pages that contain ONLY the word "raku", and exclude pages containing the word "glaze."
"raku glaze"
The search engine will display pages that contain BOTH these words, "raku" and "glaze" in that EXACT order (as a phrase).

Using Our Shopping Cart

Georgies' shopping cart program can be accessed from our "Product" pages or from our "Catalog" pages. In our Product pages, click on the "Add to Cart" icon to order clay, glaze or equipment item. In the Catalog pages, click on the item number to order the item. You can access the shopping cart at any time to view, edit or delete its contents by clicking on "Your Cart" in the upper right corner of your screen. You can begin the checkout process at any time by clicking on "Checkout," also in the upper right corner.

When you have clicked an "Add to Cart" icon and entered the shopping cart, click on the underlined product description to go right back to the page where you found that item. Clicking the green "Continue Shopping" graphic will take you back to our home page at www.georgies.com. Whichever one you click, your product choices in the shopping cart will NOT be wiped out.

To completely empty your shopping cart and start over, click "Your Cart" to view the cart's contents, then click "Empty Your Cart."

Georgies Ceramic & Clay • 756 NE Lombard • Portland OR 97211 • Homepage • 503.283.1353 • 800.999.CLAY • Fax 503.283.1387