In 1994,
Netscape was developed. Netscape was the fastest growing software company ever.
After Netscape caught on, Microsoft entered the browser field with its Internet
Explorer.
What is a BROWSER?
Netscape is the browser software we use in class to view documents on the
Internet, specifically, on the World Wide Web. Netscape is like a pair of eyes
to view the world. It is not the Internet itself – just the tool used to look
at it and participate in it.
The easiest way
to go to a site on the Web is to just type the name in the browser’s ADDRESS
BOX. Or you can click the arrow next to the address box. It gives a
list of the pages you can go back to. List of addresses usually lasts about 15
days, but you can change the time in the browser’s “Preferences”.
BACK
BUTTON (upper
left-hand corner): click to move backwards; click again and go back one step
further.
FORWARD
BUTTON: Click the
down arrow and it gives the pages you can move forward to.
When you want to
go back to the first page, click the HOME BUTTON.
MOUSE: This is a mouse. Three buttons.
Right/left/rolling thing. A wheel mouse has the wheel. The left button is
action; right button gives you information to make something happen.
“Click”
always means the left button. “Right Click” means use the right
button.
Two kinds of
clicks:
a. Single (just says click)
b. Double click (most often a single
click is all that is necessary. If it requires a double-click, I will say
double click on...).
SCREEN: called the “DESKTOP”.
Grey things
at the bottom of the desktop are located on the TASK BAR.
START
BUTTON: Every program on the computer can be
accessed from here.
The box on
the right of the Task Bar” called the SYSTEM TRAY. The pictures (ICONS)
in the System Tray represent programs running on the computer in the
background. These programs are keeping the computer doing what it is supposed
to be doing.
Put the
Mouse over the time shown in the System Tray and you can see the day of the
week and the date. Click on the time to change it.
The blue
line across the top of the browser is the TITLE BAR. It gives the
title of the program running in the Window.
In the upper
right-hand corner is a minus sign, a double box and an “x”.
The minus sign reduces the screen to an icon on the bottom task bar, the double
box cuts the size of the screen in half (use this when you want to run more
than one program at the same time), and the “x” clears everything from the
screen.
The next
gray bar at the top is the MENU BAR. If you click on any one of
the icons, a menu pops down (file/edit/tools).
The next
gray bar is the TOOL BAR .
VERTICAL
SCROLL BAR on the
right – allows us to access and see more of the page. Can be used three ways:
1. Scroll – move a line at a time by
clicking the bottom arrow.
2. Click once in the scroll box.
3. Hold the button and pull it down
the scroll bar.
HORIZONTAL
SCROLL BAR is on the
bottom. The Horizontal scroll bar works in the same way as the Vertical Scroll
Bar.