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Using the Newry and Mourne District Council website

This section tells you how to find the information you are looking for and get the most out of the Newry and Mourne District Council website.

• Overview of the site
• Home, search and help
• Using search and query language
• Searching for a Document or Form

Overview of the site

The sitemap provides a graphical overview of the Newry and Mourne District Council website.

Home and Navigation

The Newry and Mourne District Council logo appears in the top left hand corner of each page and clicking it returns you to the home page. From the home page you can navigate to any area of the site using the two bars that appear at the top of the page.

These two navigation bars are present on all pages. The uppermost bar provides links to pages providing useful functions:

• Home
• Help
• Search
• Contact Us
• What's New
• Links
• Downloads
• Site Map

The navigation on the left-hand side provides to the seven main areas of the site. Each of these areas is colour-coded as follows:

• General Council (burgundy)
• The Equality Unit (coffee)
• Tourism (jade)
• Economic Development (lavender)
• Environment (olive)
• Sports and Leisure (sea blue)
• Community and Arts Development (terracotta)

Using search and query language

You can search the Newry and Mourne District Council website for specific words or combinations of words using the search page. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents with best matches shown first. The files are listed by file title. Each file title is a link to a matching document.

Advanced search techniques

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example: