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Internet Browsing Essentials: How to Use a Web Browser Effectively

Learn how to navigate the internet with ease! Understand browsers, URLs, bookmarks, and more. Enhance your browsing experience and maximize your online activities.

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Internet Browsing Essentials: How to Use a Web Browser Effectively

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  1. How To Use a Browser • A Module of the CYC Course – Computer Basics 8-28-10 1

  2. 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. 9

  3. 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? 2

  4. 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). 2

  5. 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. 2

  6. 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 2

  7. 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.” 2

  8. Home Button • Home: The initial web page that is displayed when you open the Internet browser 2

  9. 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. 3

  10. Stop and Refresh • Stop: Stops loading a web page. • Refresh: Reloads the current web page to give you an updated version of the page. 2

  11. Drop Down Menu • Shows a list of previously visited Web pages. 2

  12. 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 2

  13. Practice finding: • Home • Stop • Refresh • Back • Forward • Address box • Drop down menus • Bookmarks/Favorites 2

  14. 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 2

  15. Ways To Get To a Website • Favorites/bookmarks • URL • Links • Search engine 2

  16. 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/ 2

  17. 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. 2

  18. 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 2

  19. Additional Resources • If your computer includes McAfee SiteAdvisor, you will see additional icons with your search results. • Password checker - http://www.passwordmeter.com/ • How to clear your browser history - http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cache 14

  20. 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. 14

  21. 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 15

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