Overview
How to Get From Here to There
Navigating Web Pages
Marking Important Pages
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Overview
How to Get From Here to There
Navigating Web Pages
Marking Important Pages
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---------------------- Note: The following explanation refers to Netscape's Navigator 3.01 (NS) and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.01 (IE) browser; other versions of Navigator and Internet Explorer differ slightly. Like most software, browsers frequently offer more than one option for completing a task. -------------------- |
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Revisiting Important Pages
As you begin to browse the Web, you'll quickly begin accessing more and more pages and following links that will take you from site to site. Browsers have several built-in tools that track your travels, making it easy to relocate a particularly useful page that you visited a dozen mouse clicks ago. |
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-- Use the Forward or Back button on the toolbar to step you forward and backward one page at a time within your session.
(or) -- Use the Go menu -- which contains a history of the pages visited in your session -- to jump directly to the page you wish to revisit. |
-- Use the Forward or Back button on the toolbar to step you forward and backward one page at a time within your session.
(or) -- Use the Go menu -- which contains a history of the pages visited in your session -- to jump directly to the page you wish to revisit. |
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In addition to tracking sites as you visit them, Internet Explorer keeps a "history" of previous Web sessions and organizes them by date. These history files are found under the Go menu and are saved even after you close the browser and turn off your computer. This IE feature can be useful after student sessions, to check the caliber and appropriateness of visited sites. 
Bookmarking/Saving Favorites When you find a particularly useful site, you will want to be able to get back there quickly and easily in the future. This is easily accomplished by bookmarking (NS) or saving a Favorite (IE). Bookmarking or saving a Favorite site means that the site's name and URL are stored in your browser.
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| -- When you're on a page that you want to remember for future use, go to the Bookmarks menu and select Add Bookmark. | -- When you're on a page that you want to remember for future use, go to the Favorites menu and select Add Page to Favorites. | |
| When you want to go back to a site, go to the Bookmarks (NS) or Favorites (IE) menu, and scroll down to select the site by name.
Printing a Web Page Printing a Web page is another option built into the browser. Printing a Web page can be useful when your time in a computer lab is limited, for example, or if you don't have at home and want to take work home with you. Many educational sites (including wNetSchool) produce pages that are designed to be printed out and used with students. One warning: it's difficult to determine where a page break will occur when printing Web pages.
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-- Click the Print button on the toolbar.
(or) -- From the File menu, select Print. |
-- From the File menu, select Print. | |
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Saving Web Page Text Those concerned only with the copy contained on a Web page have the option of saving Web page text. |
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-- From the File menu, select Save As. You should choose to save the page as text and navigate to the proper folder.
(or) -- Click and drag your mouse (PC users - use the left mouse button) to highlight the specific text you're interested in. From the Edit menu, select Copy; open a word processing document and paste the text from the Web page. |
-- From the File menu, select Save As. You should choose to save the page as text and navigate to the proper folder.
(or) -- Click and drag your mouse (PC users - use the left mouse button) to highlight the specific text you're interested in. From the Edit menu, select Copy; open a word processing document and paste the text from the Web page. |
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