WebSleuth

Navigating the Web

Web Browers

• 2 main web browsers:
  • Netscape
  • Internet Explorer

   

• Some important buttons:

  • Back - takes you back one page at a time to the last page you were at
  • Forward - takes you forward to the page you were just at
  • Go - shows you a list of the websites you've been to
  • Bookmarks - a way to save a list of web pages that you want to return to

Web Addresses / URLs

Standard way of describing where you are. Most commonly start with http:// . Different endings mean different things.

• edu=education
• gov=government
• org=non-profit organization
• net=internet organization
• mil=military
• uk=United Kingdom
• ca=canada
• each country has it's own ending

Hypertext / Hyperlinks

This is what allows you to move within a page or from page to page. When you move over a link a little hand comes up. Click on that link and before you know it you're all over the place!

Multimedia

The WWW is now able to support all kinds of media:

• images
• audio
• video
• animated graphics (such as the magnifying glass in the top bar)

Using multimedia is very common now. Just take a look at the Chicken Dance webpage.

To see the latest new technology look at this site! It is very cool!!! http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/3072/camera2.html

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