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How To Use a Browser
A Module of the CYC Course – Computer Basics
7-21-10
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What is the Internet and WWW?• The Internet (also known as the Net)
is a global, interconnected system of networks that connects computers around the world to exchange data.
• The World Wide Web (also known as the web or WWW) is a system of linked pages containing documents and multimedia.
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Why use the Internet?• Research • Connect with friends and family• Shop • E-mail• Download files like music or photos• Take online classes• Play games• What else?
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What is needed to connect to the Internet?• A computer, laptop, or mobile phone• Internet Service Provider - A
commercial organization that provides access to the Internet for a fee. Or, a free wireless connection (also called wifi).
• Web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc)
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What Is a Browser?
• A software program that allows you to view web pages
• Popular browsers– Internet Explorer
• IE is free and included with computers using Microsoft Windows
– Mozilla Firefox • Firefox is free and needs to be downloaded
and installed.
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Main elements of a browser:• Address box (used for typing in
address of Website, for example, http://oprah.com)
• Menu Bar– Home button – Back and forward buttons – Stop and reload /refresh– Drop down menus
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Address Bar
• Displays the URL or address of the Web page you are viewing.
• To visit a Web page, type the URL (web address), like http://google.com, in the address box and press “Enter” or click “Go.”
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Home Button
• Home: The initial web page that is displayed when you open the Internet browser
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Back and Forward Buttons
• Back: Returns you to the last web page you viewed.
• Forward: If you pressed the back button, the forward button will take you to the web page that you visited before pressing the back button.
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Stop and Refresh
• Stop: Stops loading a web page.
• Refresh: Reloads the current web page to give you an updated version of the page.
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Drop Down Menu
• Shows a list of previously visited Web pages.
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Bookmarks or Favorites
• Saves the address of a favorite Internet site in a file in order to revisit that site in the future.
• Explorer: favorites
• Firefox: bookmarks
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Practice finding:
• Home• Stop• Refresh• Back• Forward• Address box • Drop down menus• Bookmarks/Favorites
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Elements of a website
• A website is a collection of text, images, videos, links, and other elements with a unique web address.
• A web address consists of a name, a period & a top level domain.
• Most common extensions:– .org: mostly non-profits– .edu: colleges/universities– .mobi: mobile phone sites– .com: mostly commercial– .gov: U.S. federal government– .us or .uk: mostly country websites
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Ways To Get To a Website• Favorites/bookmarks • URL • Links• Search engine
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URL
• If you know a site’s address, type the URL in the address box and press “Enter” or click “Go.”
• If you receive an error message, make sure that the URL is correct.
• Try: http://espn.com or http://allrecipes.com/
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Links
• Hyperlinks, also simply called links, are text or graphics on a web page that provide access to other web pages.
• Text that is hyperlinked is usually underlined and may be a different color than the main text.
• Jumping from one web page to another by clicking on links is called surfing the Internet.
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Home Page
• The home page is the initial Web page that is displayed when you open the Web browser.
• It can also be the main or introductory page of a Web site.
• http://pandora.com
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Sources
• This curriculum was partially adapted from a slide presentation entitled “Internet Basics” created by the Indian Prairie Public Library.
• Additional content created by Connect Your Community, a project of OneCommunity, funded by the federal Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.
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Creative Commons License
• This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0