Transcript Internet Lab

Internet
Internet is
• Is a Global network
• Computers connected together all over that world.
• Grew out of American military
WWW (World Wide Web)
• Is Global network
• Documents or files connected together all over
the world.
• Can be accessed using Web Browser.
Web Browser
• Is an application that is used to display web pages.
• Ex:
• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Google chrome
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer
• Define each of the following terms
WWW , ISP, HTTP, FTP, URL, Hyperlink.
Internet Explorer
• WWW : (World Wide Web)
• HTTP : (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
• URL : (Uniform Resource Locator)
• Hyperlink: ( A Clickable Item transfer you from a page
to another)
• ISP : (Internet Service Provider)
• FTP: (File Transfer Protocol)
Understand the make-up and
structure of a Web address.
http://www.pua.edu.eg
http://www.pua.edu.eg
• http://  Hyper Text transfer Protocol
• www.  World Wide Web
• pua.  Domain Name
• Edu.  Domain extension
• eg  country Domain
Open (and close) a Web
browsing application.
• Double click on the Internet Explorer icon
• Start  all programs  Internet Explorer
First Steps with the Web
Browser
Stop a Web page from loading.
• Use the Stop icon to stop loading a
web page
Refresh a Web page.
• Refreshing (Reloading) the web page, forces the web browser
to see if there is an updated version of the page
Web Navigation
Go to a URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
• If you have a Web page address such as
http://www.google.com you could simply enter this into the
URL Address bar at the top of the Microsoft Internet Explorer
program, and press Enter
Navigate backwards and forwards
between previously visited Web pages.
• Use the Back or Forward icons
Change the Web browser
Home Page / Start page.
• Home page is the starting page of the browser.
• Set the start page to a page that you find useful,
such as a search engine, a news page, etc…………..
• You can change home page from internet options
Changing home page
From Tools  Internet options
From home page at General Tab
you can change home page by one
of the followings:
•Write the URL
•Use current: to make the
opened page the home page
Using Bookmarks
(Favorites)
Bookmark a Web page.
• Bookmark web pages so that you can return to
them at another time
• You can use favorites Icon from the toolbar or
use favorites menu.
Working with bookmarked
Web page.
• From Favorites menu
you can:
• Add a web page to
favorites
• Display a bookmarked
page
• Organizing your
favorites
Add Web pages to a bookmark
folder.
• Click on the Favorites
menu → Add to
Favorites → from
create in choose the
folder you want to
save in → ok
• to navigate to this web
page go to favorites
and click on it
Organizing Bookmarks
Create a bookmark folder.
• Favorites → select the Organize Favorites, Organize Favorites
dialog box will be displayed. You can use it to
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Create Folder and give it a name
Delete existing folder or page.
Rename a folder or webpage
Move folders and web pages within favorites menu
Organize Favorites dialog box
Using History
Web browser history
• Web browser keep previously visited URLs which can be
displayed using address bar
• To view the browser history click on the Favorites button →
click on history Tab
Delete browsing history
• To delete the history:
Tools → internet options form browsing history → Delete
Delete browsing history
• Select history →
Delete
Web Searching
Using a Search Engine
Search engine
• Is a site that helps you to find information located on the
internet
• It gets result as hyperlink
Select a specific search engine.
Alta Vista http://www.altavista.com
Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com
HotBot http://www.hotbot.com
Google http://www.google.com
Lycos http://www.lycos.com
MSN http://www.msn.com
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com