This page is designed to describe how to navigate our site, define what downloads you may need, identify browser requirements and more.
1. Delta Dental logo
Clicking on the Delta Dental logo from any web page will take you to the Delta home page.
2. Home button
This button that appears on all web pages will also take you to the Delta home page.
3. Site map, search and help
These tools are designed to help you find information on our web site quickly. The site map serves like a table of contents for our web site, breaking down each section and what can be found in each one.
Our search engine allows you to enter a keyword to find all documents that reference that keyword. For example, keying in the words "claim form" will produce all pages that include information about the claim form.
The help link will bring you to this page, which helps describe how the site is structured, what downloads you may need and other useful information.
4. Audience-specific sections
We break the content down on our web site by audience: enrollees, dentists, brokers, and benefits managers. If, for example, you are an individual enrolled in a Delta Dental plan, you would click on the button labeled "Enrollees" for information specific to you. You will see that the Enrollee button is in white text in the image above, while the rest of the buttons have standard black text. The white text indicates which section of the site you are in.
5. Sub-navigation toolbar
Each audience-specific channel has a customized toolbar with links to popular features. This makes these features easily accessible from every page within that section. For example, since the most frequently visited pages for enrollees are the dentist directory and the benefits and eligibility system, we provide links to those web features in this toolbar.
Below the top navigation header on each web page, you will see a line that looks something like the one below (this one appears on the FAQs page for enrollees):
Home>> Enrollee>> Online help>> FAQs
Like breadcrumbs, this serves as a path to show how you navigated to the page you are on, and how you can get back home. With the exception of the page you are visiting (in this case the FAQs), each page noted in the breadcrumbs links you back to that location.
The navigation bar below appears on the left-hand side of every web page to help you access the various sections throughout our web site.
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Like the sub-navigation described above, this left navigation changes based on which section of the site you are visiting. For example, the left navigation bar in the enrollee section is customized for that audience, and would offer different links than the dentist, broker and benefits manager sections.
Sections that are neutral, or not dependent on audience, such as the About Delta (corporate information) section, contain the same left navigation as the home page (shown at left).
The buttons for the audience-specific sections in the top navigation take you to the same location as the audience-specific sections shown at left.
At the bottom of each page you will find two rows of links that allow you to navigate to other major areas as well as access important documents.
The footer links appear as follows:
Here are a few applications you might consider downloading if you haven't already. They will enhance your visit to the Delta web site as well as other sites on the World Wide Web. All are easy to use and available free of charge.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
This plugin will enable you to read and print any documents in PDF format, such as the Delta claim form.Macromedia Flash Player
Download the Flash player to view interactive content, like the soon-to-be released virtual tour.
Our web site is best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape, versions 4 and above. To download the latest version of either of these browsers, please use the links below: