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- 1. Internet Fundamentals Learning toUse the World Wide Web The Internet Teacher
- 2. Internet Fundamentals Introduction – The World Wide Web – The Internet Using a Web Browser – Netscape Navigator Finding Information on the Web (Using Effective Search Strategies) – Directories – Search Engines
- 3. World Wide Web(WWW) An Introduction – a vast collection of information that’s connected like a web – accessible through the Internet using connections called hyperlinks – view the WWW resources through a program called a Web Browser, such as: Netscape Navigator Internet Explorer
- 4. World Wide Web (WWW) – Navigate through the WWW by pointing to and clicking on hyperlinks (underlined or boldfaced words, phrases, icons, or images) – Also called Cyberspace or the Information Superhighway
- 5. Often confused…... URL or Email Address? URL - Uniform Resource Locator or Web Address Example: http://www.weather.com Used by Browsers to locate sites Often confused with Email addresses johndoe@netscape.net
- 6. Entering a URL http://netscape.com Location Box Enter URL’s here (or Web Address) http://netscape.com 6 MDCC Faculty Training - 10/5/99
- 7. Sample URL’s (or Internet Addresses) Internet Address or URL Global Domains http://www.angelfire.com commercial site http://www.msstate.edu educational inst. http://www.intop.net network organiz. http://www.navy.mil military http://www.____.org not for profit org. http://www.____.gov gov. agency,dept.
- 8. Web Pages Web Pages- documents on the WWW Written and constructed using HTML HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language – a special language <html> or code used to <head> <title>MBJ ONLINE</title> design and publish <base href="http://www.msbusiness.co documents on the m/"> Web </head>
- 9. The Internet An informationsystem Communication tool A large network of computer systems world wide can be explored by using a Web Browser Services available through the Internet: Email (Discussion groups,Chat Rooms, etc.) Information search (including research) Education (Online courses; virtual colleges) Entertainment, News, and more…...
- 10. Internet Fundamentals Using a WebBrowser Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer
- 11. Web Browsers Software programsused to access the World Wide Web Netscape Navigator Two most popular web browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer Netscape Navigator Similar with slight differences
- 12. Internet Fundamentals Using a Web Browser Starting and stopping the Browser The Web Browser’s window Getting around a “page” and the WWW Saving, printing, and mailing items from the WWW Bookmarks - Keeping track of favorite sites Setting preferences and options
- 13. Internet Fundamentals Finding Information on the Web using Directories Search Engines (Effective Search Strategies)
- 14. Internet Fundamentals Searching the Web Guessing Domain Names such as: ibm.com or weather.com maps.com or abcnews.com Performing Keyword Searches Using Search Engines – Single keyword search (such as tennis) – More exact search results (using 2 or more words, or even a phrase such as women’s tennis) continued...
- 15. Internet Fundamentals Searching the Web Complex Search – contains several words, but uses operators such as AND, OR, NOT, and “phrases in quotation marks” Examples: – stock AND quotes – “stock quotes” – orange NOT county – Web OR Internet Be Patient and Persistent!
- 16. Internet Fundamentals Search Engines What is a Search Engine ? program that connects you to a data base or Web address used to perform a thorough search Some Popular Search Engines Alta Vista, Excite, Hotbot, Lycos, InforSeek, etc. Random Browsing (takes too much time) Mark Favorite Sites (bookmark the sites) Use several Search Engines for a thorough search
- 17. Internet Fundamentals Some FavoriteSearch Engines Alta Vista (http://www.altavista.digital.com) Characteristic: returns links to first 10 web sites it finds that match your keyword(s) and up to 19 additional pages of sites Exite (http://www.excite.com) will return a page with links to the first 10 sites it found that match you keyword(s) Hotbot (http://www.hotbot.com)
- 18. Internet Fundamentals SearchEngines, continued Advice: Make bookmarks for Search Engine Sites Search Engine Web Address (or URL) Alta Vista http://www.altavista.digital.com Excite http://www.excite.com HotBot http://www.hotbot.com InfoSeek http://www.infoseek.com Lycos http://www.lycos.com WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com
- 19. Internet Fundamentals Search Engine or Directory? What’s the difference? Search Engine - allows you to collect and then browse information from more sources (Excite, AltaVista, InfoSeek, etc.) Directory - generally doesn’t include every single web page or resource. Organizes resources of web pages by categories. (Yahoo!)
- 20. Internet Fundamentals Some Favorite Directories Directory Name Web Address (URL) Yahoo! (favorite) http://www.yahoo.com Magellan http://www.mckinley.com Point http://www.pointcom.com
- 21. Internet Fundamentals Built-In Search Pages Netscape and Internet Explorer have 2 built-in search pages – Netscape or Explorer Icon (upper right) – Search Button (or Icon) on Tool Bar (at top) Easiest way to perform a search N (for beginners especially)
- 22. Internet Fundamentals Meta-Search tools Multi-Search Engines – Searches 5 or 6 engines at once – prefer this type of search engine (personally) Recommended Multi-Search Engines MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com Ask Jeeves http://www.askjeeves.com DogPile http://www.dogpile.com
- 23. Internet Fundamentals FindingPeople & Businesses Looking for Email Addresses Looking for home or business addresses or phone numbers Sites specializing in Email Addresses: Four11 http://www.four11.com WhoWhere http://www.whowhere.com
- 24. Internet Fundamentals Using a Web Browser Start your Web Browser Double-click on your Browser icon on your Desktop. Netscape Communicator.lnk