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2. Connection: You need some way to connect to the Internet from that computer.
install some more things from your Windows installation CD. Just follow
all the directions from your ISP. It's not really that hard to do.
3. Connection device: The device must match the type of connection you have
arranged.
1.
a. Modem: connects your computer to your ISP or online service over a
regular telephone line. Modems come in several different speeds. Do not
settle for 28.8 Kbps if your ISP can handle higher rates. Be careful that
your kind of modem works well with the kind that your ISP uses.
c. Cable modem: uses the your cable TV wire to send data at very high
rates, but the speed depends on how many other cable TV users are using
their cable modems when you are. No need to dial! A permanent
connection.
2. Email: handles the creating, sending, receiving, and storing of email messages.
If you install the complete set of programs that come with Internet Explorer, or
the programs that are available as additions, you will have IE as your browser,
Outlook Express for both email and newsgroups, Microsoft Chat for IRC chatting,
and FrontPage Express for creating web pages (depending on which version of IE
you install). If you install a recent version of Netscape, you will also have
software that performs all these important functions. Neither Internet Explorer nor
Netscape have an FTP program. Both sets of programs do their jobs. Each has
certain advantages over the other. If you don't like either of these suites of
programs, there are many other programs available from other companies.
IE Interface
W hen you open Internet Explorer, the window that you see on your computer screen has
a few new features in addition to all the standard window parts: title bar, status bar, scroll
bars, menu bar, toolbar, and the maximize, minimize, and close buttons. The items on the
Menu Bar and the Toolbar are different from what you see in other programs like MS
Word and MS Excel.
Click on each label in the image below. A short explanation of the part's function will
appear in a separate window. Or you can go straight to a new window. You will work
with each part in the Step-by-Step activities.
OR
View all of the description on one page in a new window.
Other programs may add other toolbars. For example, Microsoft Windows Media Player
adds a Radio bar so you can listen to a radio station while browsing.
Navigating
T here are a many ways of getting around on a web page and of moving between pages.
You can use your mouse, the keyboard, toolbar buttons, Favorites, and History. Frames
and forms have their own little tricks.
You may use web pages to practice all the navigation techniques. These pages will let
you experience some of the problems that you will run into in the "real world".
Before we get started with navigating web pages, let's first look at how a page loads.
Searching
Y ou have now learned how to get around on the Web and how to save and print the
wonderful stuff you find there. But wait a minute! How can you find something
wonderful enough to bother with?
That's like asking how to find a good book. There are lots of ways!
3. Special Publications - Many magazines and web sites have lists of interesting
web sites. Huge books have been published describing web sites that are useful,
informative, or just plain fun. Unfortunately web sites can fade faster than the
sunset. So be quick to follow up on an interesting site. It may not be there later!
4. Word of mouth - A friend might tell you about a cool place she found. Or
maybe a friend of a friend of a friend found it.
5. Search - Special web sites called search engines or web directories keep track of
what's out there on the web.