Using this site
Navigating between worlds with the dashboard switcher
Jump from any page on this site to any of the six worlds, without going back to the home page first.
What you will need
- Any page on this site. The switcher sits in the header of every one of them, including this guide.
- A pointer, a keyboard or a touchscreen. All three routes are written out below.
- JavaScript enabled. With scripting turned off the switcher is not built, and the header falls back to a plain list of links to every world instead, so nothing becomes unreachable.
Steps
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Find the dashboard button
Look at the top right of the header. The dashboard button is the small square icon made of four squares in a two-by-two grid, sitting immediately to the left of the life-ring button that opens support. The header is transparent over hero art and picks up a hairline and a blur once you scroll down, but the button stays in the same place either way. A screen reader announces it as “Open world switcher”.
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Open the switcher
Click the button once. An overlay headed “Choose a world” fills the viewport and the page behind it stops scrolling, so you do not lose your place while you decide.
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Read the six tiles
The overlay holds one tile per world, in this order: Apex Holding, Greppo Winery, Arz Faraya, Zaarour Gate, Portfolio and Support. Each tile carries the name of the world and one line saying what it is. The tile for the page you are already on is marked as the current page, so you always know where you are standing.
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Hover a tile to preview the world
Move the pointer onto a tile and the whole overlay re-tints in that world’s colours — Greppo’s candlelight, Arz Faraya’s hearth amber, Zaarour’s alpine gold. Nothing is committed by hovering. Moving to a keyboard changes nothing here: focusing a tile tints the overlay exactly the same way.
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Travel
Click the tile you want. The overlay plays a short wipe in that world’s accent and the browser loads the page. This is ordinary navigation, not a trick — your browser’s Back button returns you to the page you left, and the address bar always shows where you actually are.
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Or close it and stay put
Three ways out without going anywhere: press Esc, click the close button at the top right of the overlay, or click the dark area outside the tiles. The page behind starts scrolling again and focus returns to the dashboard button you opened it with.
The keyboard route
Every part of the switcher is reachable without a pointer. From the top of any page, press Tab until you reach the dashboard button — the first stop is the “Skip to content” link, then the Apex mark, then the world links, then the dashboard button itself.
| Key | What it does |
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| Tab | Moves forward through the header until the dashboard button takes focus. Shift + Tab moves back. |
| Enter or Space | Opens the switcher and puts focus on a tile — the one for the world you are currently in, if there is one. |
| → / ← | Moves to the next or previous tile. |
| ↓ / ↑ | Moves one row down or up in the grid. On a narrow screen the tiles are one per row, so this behaves like right and left. |
| Home / End | Jumps straight to the first tile (Apex Holding) or the last (Support). |
| Tab inside the overlay | Cycles within the overlay only. Focus is held inside while it is open, so you cannot tab away into the page underneath by accident. |
| Enter on a tile | Travels to that world. |
| Esc | Closes the switcher and returns focus to the dashboard button. |
The touch route
On a phone or tablet, tap the dashboard button at the top right of the header. The six tiles stack into a single column you can scroll through inside the overlay. Tap a tile once to travel to that world — there is no press-and-hold and no second confirmation tap.
To leave the switcher without travelling, tap the close button at the top right, or tap the dark area beside the tiles.
Note
The header’s own navigation lists the five worlds you can travel to from where you are, and the Apex mark at the far left always returns you to the home page. The switcher is the one place where all six — including Apex Holding itself and this Help Center — are shown together, which is why it is worth learning on a narrow screen.
If the button is not there
The dashboard button is drawn by the site’s script, so a browser with JavaScript disabled will not show it. That is not a fault: the header falls back to a plain list of links covering every world and this Help Center, so you can still reach all of them. If scripting is on and the button is still missing, that is worth telling us about — see feedback or a complaint.